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Summary: Can't Put This Book Down!
Review: This is such an amazing book. It was the first Maeve Binchy book I ever read. I just couldn't put this book down. I wanted to know more about what happens to Kit and her family. I really found myself caring about this girl, and couldn't wait to find out what happened. This book led me to buy as many Binchy novels as I could.
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Summary: my review
Review: This was the first book I read from Maeve Binchy, and it made me appreciate and love her books.I am not of Irish descendant, but I almost wish I was! You will totally fall in love with the characters and you will absolutely feel the pain mother and daughter feel when they are separated. The way the story unfolds will also grab you totally unaware. Good read!
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Summary: I could not wait to read this book each day
Review: This is the third Maeve Binchy book that I have read. Her character development is so wonderful. I couldn't wait to read it at the end of each day. This book was around 750 pages but I wish it had 400 more. Thoroughly enjoyable (however, not without its heartaches).
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Summary: The Best Binchy I've Read
Review: This was the third Binchy novel I have read. I devoured it with the hunger of a wild animal, so excited to see what she could possibly have in store given the amazing stories I enjoyed in Tara Road and Echoes. This book will not disappoint you. Though a large amount of pages, you will be amazed at how fast you get through this novel about family, love, and lust. By far, this is one of the most engaging, irresistable, what will happen next, kind of books. Read it, devour it, enjoy it to the fullest, I did!
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Summary: A novel that entertains and entwines you...
Review: Two women in different countries struggle to cope with life events they didn't want or deserve. By switching homes for the summer each woman stands solo and moves forward through the other's world. I'm a fan of this author. Her novels are wonderful reads. Her short stories are lovely, but the novels contains twists and exploration of so many different kinds of personalitites in her characters. She'd probably make an excellent therapist if she hadn't chosen to be an author.
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Summary: Thoroughly enjoyed...until the ending.
Review: This was a terrific read..better than Tara Road, the only other Binchy I've read. I thought the ending was weak tho,...as if the author had had enough and wanted to wrap it up as quickly as possible. Didn't do the story justice. A story filled with such "alive" characters and good plot, deserved a better ending. I still enjoyed it, and would recommend this book.
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Summary: Binchy's the Best!
Review: After Tara Road, I decided to tackle all the Binchy I can get my hands on! Her ability to enter so many characters into a story, keep you interested in all of them and watch as they develop and work into each other's lives amazes me more with every book of her's I read. I loved Kit's character... her strength and ability to weigh all her options in relationships with her mother, father, brother, men and friends. I just love Ms. Binchy's writing style, her ability to take me to Ireland and see into her characters' lives. Don't be fooled by the thickness of any of Binchy's books... you'll finish them in three days and wish there were a dozen more chapters!
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Summary: The Glass Lake
Review: I listened to this book on tape. The author does a superb job in narrating - I could hardly pull away from it. She holds your attention so thoroughly you feel like you are living it. I have since hoped to see a movie made of this book.
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Summary: Hmm
Review: Good book, great characters, not enough resolution. This frayed-cord of an ending was inexcusable after teasing us readers through this long long LONG book. What was the point? After spending so much time with the characters, I felt no sympathy for them after all was said and done. It's terrible the way the last stinky hundred pages of a book can over-shadow the first good six hundred.
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Summary: Loose Ends
Review: I love how Maeve Binchy writes and had a hard time to put this book down. I was captivated until the end then was totally disappointed and angry. I did not like the fast tie up, it felt like; Lets do this just to get the book finished. I would also have liked to know more about what Louis's pain was. What made him the way he was? I can understand Helen leaving all for love, and I can understand Kit forgiving, but I have a mixed sense of Louis. It was as if he were two people. I also like how she caught the moral essence and struggles of young men and women of that era. And how fast we can turn on someone, as in the case of Sister Madeleine.
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