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Go Away Home (2014)

by Carol Bodensteiner(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0979799759 (ISBN13: 9780979799754)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Rising Sun Press

review 1: I loved this story of a young woman’s dreams and the way they evolved through her life’s twists and turns. The characters were crisp and alive; the sense of place was so real I could almost hear the sounds and smell the bread baking. It was escape in the best sense of the word. Liddie’s dream of becoming a seamstress and dress designer reminded me of my husband’s dream to be the first man on the moon. He did not achieve that dream, and eventually, many years later, he adjusted his dreams to fit the reality of his life and learned that that was all he really wanted. I ended the book confident that Liddie would be completely fulfilled in whatever life brought her way. That is a lesson many of us never learn, and we do not fulfill our destiny because o... moref it.
review 2: This is a very gentle story. I think it could really do with a lot more conflict and drama - everything is resolved too easily. Nevertheless, it did grow on me the more I read it. I think the strength of the story lies in its rendering of everyday life. Liddie is a very believable character. I just have to point out that all the German nouns should be spelt with a capital letter - that error really grated on me. Otherwise there were only very minor typos in the text. less

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