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The Second Mrs. Hockaday
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Troublefield
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Sacred Objects: When It Comes To Message, They Often Do the Heavy Lifting
Almost everyone is familiar with O’Henry’s classic short story, The Gift of the Magi, published in 1905. This is the story of a young married couple who have little money. With Christmas approaching, Della, the wife, hopes to buy her husband, Jim, a new watch chain for the gold pocket-watch he inherited from his father. However, after shopping all day she can find nothing that she can afford. At t
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| I loved this novel. Not just because it is sited in the San Juan Islands, a place dear to my heart and my husband’s. And not just because I relate so totally to the misfit sisters eking out a hardscrabble life on their island while their mother is sl ...more | |
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| I USUALLY TAKE A PASS ON BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING NOVELS: they tend not to be ‘reader-friendly.� But shortly before Christmas I was shopping in a bookstore and saw Prophet Song on the shelf; I read the first page and was hooked. Paul Lynch’s story is mes ...more | |
“Our enemy is [. . .] and all people like him, who never question their motives or doubt their desires. They are put on this earth to cause misery, because what they take so freely for themselves comes always at great cost to others.”
― The Second Mrs. Hockaday
― The Second Mrs. Hockaday
“We are no longer blessed with innocence, nor do we deserve to be. Paradise may have been lost, but paradise is a bad bargain. It costs too much. It conceals serpents, and is littered with graves.”
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“(How Southern I am, in that respect: still fighting my war when the battles have been lost.)”
― The Second Mrs. Hockaday
― The Second Mrs. Hockaday
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