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 I came across a great book about a month ago called Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal. It’s a memoir, whose title pretty much sums up the entire storyline, which recounts how Connor Grennan, an admittedly reluctant volunteer, suddenly finds himself putting aside his own self interests for the sake of a group of orphans. What develops is a fast paced story that inspires as it recounts how Connor, upon realizing the children he’s helping may not actually be orphans but victims of child trafficking, becomes determined to reunite them with their parents.
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 Every month followers of Nuttermother's blog are invited to join the Nuttermother bookclub. There are no commitments, no social parties, just you, your book and the opportunity to talk about it with other followers on bookclub day.
*Please note: There are spoilers...sort of.
This review is from the NutterMother Book Club
So you know how there are some books you just can’t get into? What’s worse is when EVERYbody is telling you how good it is, and that you just need to read a few more pages and you’ll totally fall into it.
Well I couldn’t.
What’s worse is that the writing was in a huge font; it was simply written and it probably should only have taken me a couple days to breeze through. So against the advice a few great friends who were like “just dooo it,” I couldn’t.
I’m sorry.
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Written by Alanna Morley
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 I have to admit I had different expectations for Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s novel Secret Daughter. Granted I didn’t know much more than what I had read off the back cover, but I had made the assumption that this story would be a deeply woven tail about family life, past secrets and of course, India. And in all her efforts it was about these themes. However, this quick and easy read hardly held any real depth. Though the story was interesting enough and the plot moved along very quickly, it felt…well, actually, it had no feeling.
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Written by Alanna Morley
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 Every month followers of Nuttermother's blog are invited to join the Nuttermother bookclub. There are no commitments, no social parties, just you, your book and the opportunity to talk about it with other followers on bookclub day.
*Please note: There are spoilers..
This review is from the NutterMother Book Club
Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin is an entertaining enough read for a rainy day. For all its 425 pages the storyline did move along nicely, however, it did have its flaws.
Slammerkin is a dark book. Donoghue weaves a story set in 1763 England based loosely on a true story of a servant girl (Mary Saunders) who kills her mistress because she longed for “fine clothes.” From this outline Donoghue gives us a gritty story of a girl, who grows up moderately educated for her time and is thrown into a world of prostitution. Throughout her attempts to survive her circumstances, she one day strives to move up from her meagre station in life to one that would permit her to own fine clothes.
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 Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden is really well constructed summer read. It has the amazing capability to transfer between present day and Victorian England with such ease and simplicity that this does not divert the reader from the story. And as you unravel the mystery of the novel, you can’t help but enjoy the characters and almost never wish it to end.
Centered around the mysterious identity of a lost little girl, the story evolves into one about secrets, societal positions and unrequited love. It is easily comparable to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, not only for the presence of a secret –rather- forgotten garden, but also for the sickly child growing up in seclusion who is befriended by a cousin whose is disapproved of by the sick child’s guardian.
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