The Ice Queen: A Novel
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Exquisite, I really love Alice Hoffman's writing, all that magic, beauty and love she puts into it makes it something to savor. We have to deal with a significant amount of pain in this one as well as a little girl burdened with the guilt of believing that she has caused her mother's death begins the process of learning to feel again through the cataclysmic event of getting hit by lightening when she is an adult. Weather often plays a large part of Alice Hoffman's stories, it really is a magic phenomenon, and this story is no exception. I have lived in Florida and Alice describes Florida's weather so well. As she says, "no outsider could be prepared for Florida." Getting hit by lightening, ah what a terrible thing! And it is so random, in a world where we persist in thinking that if we do things right then the bad things won't happen to us. Sometimes what we think is bad though turns out for the good, and our control is illusory anyway.
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Sent in Kalman's memory book box to Rhonder in Alberta, Canada. I released it in Kalman's memory.
Sent in Kalman's memory book box to Rhonder in Alberta, Canada. I released it in Kalman's memory.
I've chosen this from the In Memory of Kalman bookbox.
I couldn't put this book down! Such an interesting story but it was the writing that just drew me in. Wow! Thank you oliviapoolside for sharing!
Journal Entry 5 by Rhonder at to fellow bookcrosser, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Friday, March 5, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (3/5/2010 UTC) at to fellow bookcrosser, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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Sending to Easterngirl71 for the Kalman RABCK! This book was registered by Oliviapoolside and released in memory of Kalman in the Kalman bookbox that I participated in. So I thought it was a great way to keep it moving by releasing it again in memory of Kalman through this RABCK organized by chucklesthescot.
Sending to Easterngirl71 for the Kalman RABCK! This book was registered by Oliviapoolside and released in memory of Kalman in the Kalman bookbox that I participated in. So I thought it was a great way to keep it moving by releasing it again in memory of Kalman through this RABCK organized by chucklesthescot.
Thank you so much for sharing this book with me:) I love Alice Hoffman and look forward to reading this book by her, I have not read this one yet! I also want to say thank you again for letting me be a part of Kalman's rememberance bookbox:) I enjoyed being a part of this. I know I said it before but I think it is a great way to remember loved ones:) Again I thank you.