The Small Rain | Madeleine L'Engle
Title: The Small Rain
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
This is L'Engle's first novel, and I find it quite beautiful. It's the classic coming-of-age tale of Katherine Forrester, the daughter of a composer and a concert pianist. Her childhood is very unusual, but after the death of her mother, she is placed in a boarding school, where her story truly begins. This is a story about life, about handling tragedy and heartbreaks and setbacks and continuing to move forward. This is a story about love--the love between mother and daughter, between stepmother and stepdaughter, between student and teacher, between lovers, between friends. Katherine is an extraordinary person in an ordinary story, but it reads like real life should be. And I like that.
Four out of five stars.
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QUOTE:
"It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other."
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READING PROGRESS:
Ammey McKeaf by Jane Shoup: 32%
Insomnia by Stephen King: 19%
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal: 28%
Easy Go by John Lange: NOW STARTING
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
This is L'Engle's first novel, and I find it quite beautiful. It's the classic coming-of-age tale of Katherine Forrester, the daughter of a composer and a concert pianist. Her childhood is very unusual, but after the death of her mother, she is placed in a boarding school, where her story truly begins. This is a story about life, about handling tragedy and heartbreaks and setbacks and continuing to move forward. This is a story about love--the love between mother and daughter, between stepmother and stepdaughter, between student and teacher, between lovers, between friends. Katherine is an extraordinary person in an ordinary story, but it reads like real life should be. And I like that.
Four out of five stars.
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QUOTE:
"It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other."
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READING PROGRESS:
Ammey McKeaf by Jane Shoup: 32%
Insomnia by Stephen King: 19%
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal: 28%
Easy Go by John Lange: NOW STARTING
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