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Alli Reviews “The Lonely Hearts Hotel”

The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill

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I think I might need to start making a list of where I heard about certain books, that way once they are finally available at the e-library I will know why I wanted to read them in the first place. This book overall was fairly good, but it was strange an a bit manipulative and I wonder who told me to read it. “The Lonely Hearts Hotel” is a book set in and around the Great Depression and follows the lives of two orphans in Montreal. Rose and Pierrot are abused by the nuns tasked with caring for them, but […]

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3/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

Too many subplots that could have been novels themselves

Orphan #8 by Kim van Alkemade

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Seems like books about orphans are a “thing” lately. Well, I can only think of Orphan Train, which I read last year, and of course the main character in A Little Life, also read last year…but I digress already. This orphan is a Jewish girl in a New York City Jewish orphanage system in the 1920’s and onward, placed there with her brother after her father accidentally murders her mother and takes off for the road. Early in her life, Rachel Rabinowitz and her other infant ilk in the Hebrew Infant Home are subjected to terrible medical experiments by physicians […]

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2/27/2016 's CBR8 Review No:3 |

Premise of US orphan history: awesome. Book: less awesome.

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

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This was the first selection of the new year for my book club, chosen somewhat for length, something short to start off the year, and because there were book club questions in the back of the book. I have picked books to read for worse reasons, so away we went.  Though fiction, this book is the fictionally telling of what to me was an unknown part of American history From 1854 to 1929, orphan children in New York were placed on trains by a group called the “Children’s Aid Society” and sent to various parts of the Midwest to find […]

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1/30/2016 's CBR8 Review No:2 |

Catching up on the classics: Silas Marner

Silas Marner by George Eliot

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I always find it hard to rate and review classics.  Usually they’re classics for a reason, I usually enjoy them just fine, and at the very least I appreciate them.  Earlier in the year I read Middlemarch, which was wonderful and long, and I thought I should expand my Eliot horizons. Silas Marner is much shorter than Middlemarch, and a much easier read.  You probably know the basics: old, miserly bachelor happens to become the caretaker of an orphan, who teaches him the True Meaning of Life. (Spoilers follow, in case you also missed this one in HS English and […]

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6/2/2014 's CBR6 Review No:17 |


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