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“I felt sad and a whole lot better at the same time:” Truly a Timeless Classic!

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

July 11, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I was really going wild at the bookstore over epistolary novels last week and picked up Dear Mr. Henshaw, a book I hadn’t read in a super long time (maybe 20 years?). Happy to say that it holds up and is just as wonderful as I remember! It’s always weird reading a book you read a lot as a kid and seeing it through the eyes of an adult. I was struck by how big the print is, which I didn’t remember at all, and it […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: an author story, beverly cleary, divorce, epistolary novel, learning to write, Letter writing

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:68 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: an author story, beverly cleary, divorce, epistolary novel, learning to write, Letter writing ·
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Frank was great, the rest, shrug

Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson

February 8, 2020 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

I was looking for an audiobook for my beast of a commute to work (an hour/hour 15 each way) and checked for an audie award winner and this one won for best female narrator and that was good enough for me! I knew diddly about it, but figured it would be something to pass the time, and to that end, I was correct. Well-written, interesting, and filled with fun characters it had all the markings of a good novel but I didn’t like some of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: an author story, be frank with me, california, coming-of-age, Julia Claiborne Johnson

ardaigle's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: an author story, be frank with me, california, coming-of-age, Julia Claiborne Johnson ·
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