Books by Cathleen Schine
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review 1: Never really liked the main characters nor especially Lady's behavior. Definitely tried to make this a 1960's love fest story displaying Greenwich Village as the free love place. Could not understand why 3 guys kept waiting for Lady to marry them but glad Fin could find some good...
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review 1: This book had a lot of reality in it as far as relationships are concerned. You fall in love, you fall out of love, get divorced and then you are alone. The characters in this novel drag you in to their personal lives. Each one of them has some kind of romantic story behind th...
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review 1: A beautiful read that eventually leaves you with a hopeful feeling. Which is nit what you expect: 11 year old Fin loses his mother and after having already lost his father beforehand, he is left an orphan. His half-sister Lady takes him in and she, in many ways, is even less matu...
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review 1: With the exception of Jane Austen's books, I'm not such a fan of stories about wealthy people who fall on temporary hard times. Also I didn't take quite as readily to the Weissman ladies as I have to so many of Jane's ladies. Nonetheless, as the story went on, I found more and m...
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review 1: The two daughters and mother Weissmann end up at Cousin Lou's cottage in Westport. They all lose everything that they own. So from a beautiful appartment across from Central Park, they move to a run down cottage in Westport. Each female Weissmann has loved a man who has left t...