A little preachy in parts, but the characters and the beautiful lushness of the setting made me love it in spite of that. Made me love the preachy parts, too, in fact.
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Vanessa rated Salvage the Bones: 2 stars
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
They heard it on the radio. A hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's hard-drinking father …
Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …
Vanessa rated The Cat's Table: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Down and Out in Paris and London: 4 stars
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have …
Vanessa rated In the Sierra: 4 stars
Vanessa rated The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: 5 stars
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where …
Vanessa rated Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1): 4 stars
Vanessa rated Affirmative classroom management: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Things fall apart--Chinua Achebe: 3 stars
Things fall apart--Chinua Achebe by Gerald Moore (Books in focus)
Vanessa reviewed Prodigal summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Review of 'Prodigal summer' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Vanessa rated Persuasion: 3 stars
Vanessa rated Little House in the Big Woods: 4 stars
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The first in a series of truly charming tales of life on the early American frontier, Little House in the …
Vanessa rated The return of the native: 5 stars
The return of the native by Thomas Hardy (The Modern Library classics)
The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, …