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Very, very worth reading--a book I'll not soon forget. Highly recommended.

Lynna Banning]]> 4.52 2015
author: Erina Bridget Ring
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What an eye-opener this book is! I couldn't put it down and sweated every hour through the character's risky undertaking and her moral dilemma.

Very, very worth reading--a book I'll not soon forget. Highly recommended.

Lynna Banning
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author: Erina Bridget Ring
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Wow! What an eye-opening book this is. I simply couldn't put it down and was continually surprised (shocked!) at the stories of the baby-group mothers. And the involvement of the priest . . . oh, my. Don't miss this one.
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author: Dolores Smithem Cicholas
name: Lynna
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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This book is full of wonderful old-fashioned details of the life of Charlotte Bond that really brought the story to life and made me feel I was "there": fabric selling for 10 cents/yard; the ice man; butter for 8 cents/pound; the baby daughter stacking toy blocks while the bread dough rises; a tin-can-and- wire "telephone" for kids; etc. etc. The characters are true to life and memorable; I particularly liked Grandfather Smith's courtship of Miss Taylor. And I loved the touches of humor.
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author: Erina Bridget Ring
name: Lynna
average rating: 4.55
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I was very moved by this open and honest memoir; it is heart-wrenching and heart-warming and eye-opening all at the same time. A don't miss, especially if you have older parents or have ever had to care for one.


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author: Lynna Banning
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Right from the start, Layla Tompkin’s way forward is full of detours after her mother dies in breech birth, leaving only her and her devoted, sorrowful father, Ed. Then, at the age of five, Layla is rendered mute after a horrible accident. “God is leading Layla to speak in new tongues," proclaims Pastor Simpson at the local serpent handling church.��Soon after, Layla is found to possess the gift of healing and her reputation spreads.��Even Doc Fredericks, the area’s skeptical physician, is forced to re-examine scientific tenets when��Layla's healing touch is the only treatment that brings relief to his son Brian, whose��legs were blown off by a landmine in Vietnam. Doubt and the miraculous, loss and survival, hurt and forgiveness collide when a secret challenges what everyone holds true, leaving Layla, her family and the community profoundly changed in a story about what it means to be truly healed.]]> 304 Joann Rose Leonard 1936467356 Lynna 4
I particularly liked the portrait of the father, Ed, a down-to-earth, unlettered, hard-working and loving man with whom I suffered as he agonized about his daughter, Layla. Layla as a child is presented most charmingly--her thoughts and feelings so fresh and natural it gave me a little shiver of pleasure when I'd come across one.

Also of note is the setting--the places, the people--from the kindly doctor to the sheriff to the preachy preacher and the loving and solicitous Aunt Ada... and more-- the culture, so different from ours in the 21st century (we could certainly learn a lot from theirs!) and the almost magical story line. It also has a sensitive and tender description of blooming love...

Highly recommended!

Lynna Banning]]> 3.97 2012
author: Joann Rose Leonard
name: Lynna
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2012/07/22
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This is a unique book! Set in the Tennessee hills of the 1950s, it is the moving story of people and culture I had no idea about. The writing is inventive and at times lushly sensual, for instance a "July afternoon full of insect hum" and a breeze described as "trees exchanging breaths like lovers."

I particularly liked the portrait of the father, Ed, a down-to-earth, unlettered, hard-working and loving man with whom I suffered as he agonized about his daughter, Layla. Layla as a child is presented most charmingly--her thoughts and feelings so fresh and natural it gave me a little shiver of pleasure when I'd come across one.

Also of note is the setting--the places, the people--from the kindly doctor to the sheriff to the preachy preacher and the loving and solicitous Aunt Ada... and more-- the culture, so different from ours in the 21st century (we could certainly learn a lot from theirs!) and the almost magical story line. It also has a sensitive and tender description of blooming love...

Highly recommended!

Lynna Banning
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