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lucyandherbooks's review
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
krobart's review
4.0
Naive Joanna Burton marries Teddy Leigh because he says he's going to give her the world as a golden ball. But Teddy comes back from the war an invalid, and Joanna must do her best take care of her husband and children without help. When a nearby landowner tries to help her out by sending her a boarder, Joanna doesn't notice the talk going around the village in this touching and beautifully written novel.
See my complete review here:
http://whatmeread.wordpress.com/tag/the-land-of-green-ginger/
See my complete review here:
http://whatmeread.wordpress.com/tag/the-land-of-green-ginger/
catherine_louise's review
5.0
“Why, [life’s] the best bargain. It’s the best bargain if you really live.”
“The awful thing about life is that we are really alone in it.”
goddamn, Winifred Holtby doesn’t pull her punches- she gives you all life’s wonderment and its difficulties in perfect, clear-eyed prose. amazing.
“The awful thing about life is that we are really alone in it.”
goddamn, Winifred Holtby doesn’t pull her punches- she gives you all life’s wonderment and its difficulties in perfect, clear-eyed prose. amazing.
sally_ann_t's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
hollyberrybooks's review
3.0
I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/10475431
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/10475431
sashahawkins's review
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
ahsimlibrarian's review against another edition
3.0
Holtby is a fine writer, but the story was relentlessly sad but probably especially apt for its day. Joanna is a young woman with a rich imagination who dreams of travel and adventure whose dreams are drastically curtailed when she marries young. Her husband, she learns after WWI, is consumptive and she ends up taking care of him and their two children. Joanna also earns a bad reputation in her small community as the rumor mill runs rife with lascivious speculation. The end if nice, but I grew weary of the rutted tracks of the story itself.
I still want to read "South Riding" at some point, though.
I still want to read "South Riding" at some point, though.
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