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blivonius1219's review against another edition
5.0
A beautiful story of growing up in a small town, love, loss and family.
squiggidy's review against another edition
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lighthearted
reflective
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slow-paced
3.5
emnmhodgy5's review against another edition
emotional
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medium-paced
5.0
I loved this book - it was just beautiful. As someone who has grown up around mill towns in Maine, and married someone from a mill town, Monica Wood captured a loveliness of a mill town community that I wasn't anticipating.
bethchasteen's review against another edition
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5.0
This was lovely book. It is thoughtfully written at a leisurely, comfortabl pace. The author has a gift of writing magic into thr ordinary life and beauty and value in hard times.
marcykohlbeck's review against another edition
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5.0
Also growing up in a paper mill town, I could really smell the smells mentioned. Beautifully written.
peaknit's review against another edition
4.0
I had this on my kindle for ages, why didn't I read it sooner? It started out slowly but really was a sad but charming memoir of a child in the 60's. Fantastic!
mbdarwin's review against another edition
4.0
It's a very sweet book about a girl learning to get back to the job of living after her father dies suddenly. I especially loved the relationship that she and her sisters had with their uncle, Father Bob. I did feel, throughout, that I really only had a surface understanding of the characters. Most of the book made me feel as if I was only privy to the child's perspective and none of the interiority that one hopes to receive when an adult writes a memoir mostly set in the very long ago.