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I find it interesting how often the end of a book will change my feelings for the entire book - sometimes completely reversing the feeling I had while reading the beginning and the middle of the story. I can't decide yet if that's what the ending of The Whistling Season has done for me. It might have brought my 5-star rating down to a four, or it might have made me wish for six stars. I can't tell yet.
About halfway through the book, I wrote this: It makes me think of Sarah, Plain and Tall and T ...more
About halfway through the book, I wrote this: It makes me think of Sarah, Plain and Tall and T ...more
I found the description on this book to be misleading, as it seems that it will be a book about Rose, a women who came to Montana through a newspaper ad and shakes things up. In fact Rose is a minor character that flits and in out of scenes, but it really not the heart of the book.
The book is truly about Paul, the eldest son of the household and his memories. In present day (1950s) Paul is the superintendent of schools and wrestling with the question of whether or not to keep the rural, one-room ...more
The book is truly about Paul, the eldest son of the household and his memories. In present day (1950s) Paul is the superintendent of schools and wrestling with the question of whether or not to keep the rural, one-room ...more
In the Doig books that I've read the historical west always seems to get encroached upon by progress. Here it's the nostalgia of the one-room school house and the widower and his boys and the easterners who change their lives. It's also about secrets, mostly the secrets of boys and men - secrets both large and small. It's about how those secrets shape us, what secrets you can tell and which ones you keep. It's about childhood and what you carry with you for the rest of your life. It's about peop
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Jun 12, 2011
Sandra
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Jennivie
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