Coming Home

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Bernardo, Susan M.; Murphy, Graham J. (2006). Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood. p.19. ISBN 9780313332258. The writing style was a bit of a mess too… rapid jumps in time in the same paragraph. One minute we’re in the past, next it’s the present, oh suddenly it’s a dream… it was clunky and confusing. A story doesn’t need to be linear to be good, but there needs to be strong fluidity if it’s skipping around and this book just… wasn’t. Never been? Neither have I, but after reading Kate Morton’s Homecoming, I can describe the sights, sounds, and shops of Tambilla, nestled in the rolling Adelaide Hills, as if I’ve strolled through the fictional town myself. Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. She falls in love too with the generous Carey-Lewises themselves. With their generosity and kindness, Judith grows from naive girl to confident young woman, basking in the warm affection of a surrogate family whose flame burns brightly. But it is a flame soon to be extinguished in the gathering storm of war. And Judith herself has far to travel before at last . . . coming home. About Rosamunde Pilcher

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I listened to an audio version of this book read by actress Claire Foy. She does a great job of alternating between a fairly posh English accent (possibly her own) and a very passable set (to my ears at least) of Aussie accents. It’s a tale that builds slowly and includes fantastic descriptions of Australian settings. But readers/listeners will have to be patient as it all takes quite some time to come to the boil. But when it does it provides as satisfying an unravelling of the facts as I’ve come across in quite some time. Like much of Le Guin's work, Always Coming Home follows Native American themes. According to Richard Erlich, [8] " Always Coming Home is a fictional retelling of much in A. L. Kroeber's [Ursula's father] monumental Handbook of the Indians of California." There are also some elements retrieved from her mother's The Inland Whale ( Traditional narratives of Native California), such as the importance of the number nine, and the map of the Na Valley which looks like the Ancient Yurok World. [9] There are also Taoist themes: the heyiya-if looks like the taijitu, and its hollow center (the "hinge") is like the hub of the wheel as described in the Tao Te Ching. Le Guin had described herself "as an unconsistent Taoist and a consistent un-Christian". [10] Set in Adelaide Hills, South Australia in 1959, Morton is masterful in her descriptions of place and time. Her tone is that of a storyteller who knows the power of her words and sets them in epic spaces. Judith did strike me as being very cold and I do think that she used Loveday for her family and beautiful house without actually liking her. But, since this is exactly the sort of story I enjoy, character driven historical fiction set in England during the 1930s and 40s, I'll ignore these aspects of her character.It's a big sweeping story set in Cornwall between 1935-1945 with a large cast of characters. It has a strong sense of place which I've come to expect (and appreciate) from Pilcher's writing. I've never been to Cornwall- but I can picture it clearly in my mind. The writing was heartfelt and comforting and refreshed my spirits. And the characters - I'm telling you now- they will make a home in your heart if you let them. I was happy to let them. I loved this book so so much. Heartland is a 25-novel series created by Lauren Brooke, and begun in 2000 with the novel Coming Home. The series is about a girl named Amy Fleming, who lives on a horse ranch called Heartland in Virginia, where she, family, and friends heal and help abused or mistreated horses. They attempt to help the abused horses by using psychologically based therapies instead of more traditional training methods. Throughout the series, the main character, Amy, finds healing along with the horses that she treats. Eventually, Amy is faced with tough decisions that put Heartland's future and fate in her hands. The target readership is ages 8 to 14. In 2007, a TV series based on the novels, but set in the Canadian province of Alberta, debuted in Canada on the CBC network. Coming Home is not a great work of literature, that's for sure. It has little, if any literary merit. Why do I like it then? I'm not even sure, but there is something wonderfully familiar about it, something cozy, human and warm about the story itself. Perhaps it is the sum of all those human stories (and there are a lot of stories and characters in this one). Somehow when I look at all those human stories together, they do manage to convey a message. I found it hard to relate to any of the characters on a personal level because they felt somehow distant, like I was hearing their story narrated by a random person who is only semi-interested in them. The dialogues between the characters were often well written, I have to give credit to writer for that, but that was hardly enough to make the characters seem more real. I mean when it really comes down to it, it is a romance novel. I usually don't have mixed feelings about romance books, because usually I don't like them, as romance is not really my kind of genre, so my mixed feelings actually indicate something positive about this novel.

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Some of the paths around Sinshan Creek. A Kesh map of the watershed of Sinshan Creek, given to the Editor by Little Bear Woman of Sinshan.

In the second part, the writers explore various strategies for understanding and dealing with homelessness, and the theological and ethical foundations for Christian reflection and action. Morton sets her scenes with precision, allowing you to delight in stories within stories, reveal after reveal. This is Morton's "Once upon a time," as she opens her tale with an almost mythic quality, which is something I especially like about her writing. Only just gaining custody of his children, Zane Hudson now requires a permanent housekeeper to help look after them whilst he works upon the farm. Meeting him, Waverley Madris has children of her own, and she needs to pay the rent, which is when she enters a marriage of convenience with Zane after a chance meeting. The two of them then start to find there is more chemistry between them than they initially thought, as the two of them find themselves working in close proximity together. Things begin to change, and they all begin to grow a little closer upon the farm, as becomes more than just a marriage of convenience. While staying at her grandmother’s home, Jess discovers a true-crime book linking the decades-old Christmas Eve tragedy to her family. Jess begins to investigate what happened all those years ago.