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The Sojourner
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bookshelves: decided-not-to-read-it, too-many-details, too-much-description-at-start
May 12, 2012
bookshelves: decided-not-to-read-it, too-many-details, too-much-description-at-start
Added 5/12/12.
The Sojourner by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (first published 1951) Recommended to me by Goodreads ("Based on Your Aging Shelf")
I couldn't get into it. Too many details and too much description at the start. I found the first pages too uninteresting to continue.
The Sojourner by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (first published 1951) Recommended to me by Goodreads ("Based on Your Aging Shelf")
I couldn't get into it. Too many details and too much description at the start. I found the first pages too uninteresting to continue.
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May 12, 2012
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May 26, 2015
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decided-not-to-read-it
May 26, 2015
– Shelved as:
too-many-details
May 26, 2015
– Shelved as:
too-much-description-at-start
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May 13, 2012 07:16PM
I haven't read The Sojourner but I recommend you read, 'Cross Creek," after you finish this one. It was one of my all time favorite books and good movie also. I did visit Cross Creek and was fascinated by it.
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Nina wrote: "I haven't read The Sojourner but I recommend you read, 'Cross Creek," after you finish this one. It was one of my all time favorite books and good movie also. I did visit Cross Creek and was fascin..."Nina, thanks for recommending Cross Creek by the same author. Not sure I appreciate her style of writing.
PS-Here's the IMDb link for the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085380/?...
Amazon description: "The Oscar nominated true story of the woman who wrote The Yearling."
I thought the "Yearling" was an amazing well written story and it's one that really deserved the prize.
I didn't read The Yearling. In fact the movie seemed too sad.
Yes, it was a sad ending but did you see the movie? Gregory Peck was so good in it.
I saw the movie years ago but I avoid it now because I know how sad it will make me.
Yes, Joy I now feel the same way and I hate to have sad endings in books. There is enough true sadness in life and why add to it.
