The Book of Lost and Found: Sweeping, captivating, perfect summer reading

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This was a charming book that seemed like a middle-age coming-of-age story to me. It was an awakening and Martha has a chance to grow and become what she could be. I enjoyed the story. It's easy to see how many people become caretakers for others and lose themselves in the process. The characters are delightful - I loved Zelda's joie de vivre. While they were travelling to the South Pole, the boy and penguin saw ‘good weather and bad’. Use this as a starting point for learning about different types of weather.

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i predivni opisi Korzike, koji su me motivirali da guglam opisana mjesta i divim se prirodnim ljepotama u kojima su glavni protagonisti uživali svoju ljubav. This actually would be a good read for 'Grandparents Day.' The way the characters dealt with, thought through, and talked through loss was just beautiful. So real. There's love and longing for your lost loved ones, but also some guilt and some opportunity to understand them even better. In a good dual-timeline book, the past is at the heart of the tale whilst the present day acts in a secondary manner weaving in and around it. Your class must place the words into the correct context and then circle the synonyms to ensure they understand the meaning of the new words they have learned. Does this book actually have copies of Martha’s stories that she would write because of her Grandmother's prompting?

After hearing so many good things about The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, I simply had to read The Library of Lost and Found. The premise of the book is completely my kind of story, though overall I wasn't "wowed." While the descriptions of time and place were beautiful, I thought that it was too wordy and slow. The relationships presented weren't all that convincing. One of these days I will learn that just because I love a recent work of an author does not mean that I will automatically love all of that author's books - especially their debut book. As much as I adored Lucy Foley's recent book, The Hunting Party, this one just did not work for me in any way. Kate's journey to find the true identity of the woman in the portrait takes her to some of the world's most iconic and indulgent locales, revealing a love story that began in the wild 1920s and was disrupted by war and could now spark new love for Kate. Not everything is tied up nice and neatly at the end and, to be honest, I could have done with just a little more . . .

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Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. It's Penguin Awareness Day, so, we've put together a booklist full of books about penguins, so you can get to know more about the flightless birds and love everything they're about.I enjoy characters on intellectual pursuits. Depending on how it's treated, sometimes artsy things don't really get my attention as much as more 'nerdy' subjects, but I continued to feel myself moved by the art described and how it spoke about life more than I have enjoyed looking at some [real] art in person! This is a debut novel. This author has great potential. She notices the details. She uses some lovely phrases. She understands human emotions. She just uses too many words! One lovely starry sky could have been described in one well-constructed sentence instead of four long clumsy ones. That is only one example of her verbosity. stars rounded up for better than average prose flow. It's slow moving and fully effusive. All generations from Thomas Stafford forward gush and emote.

The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick | Goodreads The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick | Goodreads

However, as the book progressed you get to witness Martha realising how much of herself she gives to others and that it is time to say no. She might have been a middle-aged woman but it was wonderful to watch her grow as a person. I also loved Suki, who worked with Martha, and the wrong words she used all the time (cat’s eyes instead of capsized etc).

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Can you imagine Pooh without Piglet? Or Frodo without Sam?Here are some children's books that celebrate the power, fun and wonder of friendship. EXCERPT: She hangs in the National Portrait Gallery now. Her smile has not faltered through the years, and her hair still falls just above her jaw, as sleek as cat's fur. She sits awkwardly: the pose of a moment held for eternity. Her eyes squint slightly, shielded from an invisible sun by her hand. Loved the setting of and times in Paris and Corsica, so well presented that you want to jump on a plane (with a mask) and travel for a change of scenery, food, champagne and new experiences. Yes, I love and miss travel. I also love the art world brought to life in this story. Magically told. This is the third book of this author that I tried, and once again, loved the writing style and prose. So what makes a book worthy of 5 stars? For fiction, it has to be one that I couldn't put down at for at least a large chunk of it. Since I can rarely finish a book in one day even if I want to, if I end up dreaming about the book that's also a sign of 5 stars. Historical fiction has to have a significant anchor in the history it's drawing from AND a great story that is both timeless and is tied to the time described simultaneously.

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I adored Zelda, the colorful and unconventional Nana, although I had no pleasant thoughts for the rest of them - as they were all conniving and disingenuous conspirators. I was taut with tension and grinding my teeth, but I was invested and entrenched, and could not leave my Kindle for more than a few minutes. The picture was painted in 1928 by an up-and-coming artist named Tom, now an elderly man, living on the island of Corsica and Kate goes to visit him to find out more about the woman he painted. Tom reveals his side of a bitter-sweet love story that started in Hertfordshire and ended in Paris during the Second World War. Under any other circumstances, I wouldn't have bothered. The synopsis read as a little cliché and I already knew that I wasn't a fan of the writing. But the supposedly stirring romantic element - "a classic sweeping love story", one critic claims - had me interested. I was in the mood for something moving.It then jumps forward to Kate who is trying to come to grips with the death of her mother and best friend. Lovely to see a mother and daughter relationship portrayed so positively, instead of the negative representations of the mother /daughter relationship we often get in books. I really related to Kate and to her grief for her mother. Kate’s mother was a famous ballet dancer. It isn’t until her adopted grandmother Evie dies and Kate is going through her things that Kate finds there was a lot more to her mother’s and her real grandmother’s story than she ever knew.