Books by Nan Parson Rossiter
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review 1: I have seen pancakes with more dimension than the characters in this book. Everything about this book tries too hard. It tries too hard to be funny and to be tender and to be thought-provoking but doesn't accomplish any of those feats. The behavior of the characters was unbelieva...
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review 1: I enjoyed the story despite the abbreviated character development. I feel the author could have cut back on the overly-described action sequences (there was an almost 1/2 page paragraph describing how the character was making a pie) and perhaps spent more time on fleshing out th...
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review 1: A novel that deals with loss and the life after.For me personally, it had a few glaring issues.One of which is the fact the sense of loss was never fully conveyed or tackled. There were scenes like the funeral in which sadness comes through. But it felt like that sense of loss is...
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review 1: For a book that is definitely not my cup of tea, I am pleasantly surprised to say that I enjoyed this. The author sets up the surrounding plot of a seemingly overused story to leave the reader questioning her presuppositions about love, lust, and adultery. The characters become...
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review 1: I didn't realize that I was at the end of the book. Nan Rossiter is a very good storyteller. Things flowed very easily. This story is about the friendship between the Coleman and Shepherd families. It goes back 3 generations in a small New England town in Cape Cod. Samuel an...
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review 1: This was the PERFECT summer time read. it is full of family values and learning to relax even when you don't want to. It follows a son who is about to get married, one who is severely bullied at school and how she has to juggle it all as well as make everyone else happy. I thorou...