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Mulberry Park (2008)

by Judy Duarte(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0758220154 (ISBN13: 9780758220158)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Kensington

review 1: Maybe this is just a "knee-gut reaction," but I did not enjoy this. I usually find myself in one of two states of mind when reading a book -- either I enjoy it so much that I want to stay up as long as possible to keep reading it, or I hate it so much that it takes weeks to finish (I refuse to quit a book on principle (I did quit Ulysses, but I fully intend to go back to that)). Now, I'll have to add a third category -- a book I hate so much that I stay up way too late just to get it over with.Ultimately, everything you need to know about what happens you can figure out for yourself during the first two chapters in the flood of character introductions. The rest is formulaic, obvious, and tedious.
review 2: Book Jacket:Each day after work, Claire Harper drive... mores to Mulberry Parkand jogs for miles, hoping to find a respite from her sad-ness. It's a futile effort, until the evening a letterfalls from its hiding place in a nearby tree. Inside thebright pink envelope emblazoned with the words "To GodFrom Analisa" is a note written by a seven-year-old girl,urging God to look after her parents in Heaven and helpthose she loves on Earth. On impulse, Claire writes back,hoping to preserve Analisa's innocent belief in answeredprayers--even if Claire lost her own faith when her youngson was killed in a hit-and-run accident three years ear-lier.Since that day, Claire has watched numbly as her life lostits meaning and her marriage dissolved, unwilling and un-able to engage with the world around her. But Analisa'sletters gradually draw Claire out of her cocoon and intothe companionship of other Mulberry Park regulars--all, intheir own way, in need of comfort. Aside from Analisa andher elderly nanny, Hilda, there's Sam,Analisa's attorneyuncle; Trevor, a young boy in need of companionship; Wal-ter, the chatty old man who plays solitary chess games;and Maria, a single and pregnant young mother of twostruggling to keep her family home. As friendships grow,sorrows lift, and lives and hearts connect, each willdiscover just how far and how high one simple letter canreach... less

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