Dec 3, 2017
“Sai cosa diceva mia madre? “La gente pensa troppo”. Credo di essere d’accordo con lei.”
— Rae Meadows
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“Sai cosa diceva mia madre? “La gente pensa troppo”. Credo di essere d’accordo con lei.”
— Rae Meadows
January reading.
Consequence, A Memoir by Eric Fair (Read review here.)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (Read review here.)
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (Read review here.)
I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows (Read review here.)
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
This one is a dream and the delivery is poetic. A coming of age story that dives in to what black girlhood looks like, sounds like, tastes like, feels like. It should not be missed.
Rae Meadows' novel follows the fraught experiences of a Siberian girl as she rises through the U.S.S.R. medal machine in the lead-up to the
One of my favorite books of the year.
No#News Magazine - anno IV - numero XXXIV
No#News Magazine – anno IV – numero XXXIV
Una buona sera ai nostri oziosi seguaci pacifisti. (more…)
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Dust Bowl Days
#BOOKREVIEW - Dust Bowl Days - #IWillSendRain #blog
Life is tough and then you die. Harsh yet true words that hold particularly true during the difficult Dust Bowl days as seen in I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows.
Annie Bell’s life of being a farmer’s wife has been trying. One of her children died weeks after being born, her teenage daughter is headstrong and in love, and her young son has weak lungs and doesn’t speak. With a lack of rain during…
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What does that matter when he makes me happy?” There was an adjustment her mother made then, a slight giving in, a relaxing of her shoulders, as if she wondered for just a moment what that kind of freedom might feel like.
Rae Meadows, I Will Send Rain
Book Review - I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
Book Review – I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
Title: I Will Send Rain Author: Rae Meadows ISBN: 9781627794268 No. of Pages: 272 Genre: Historical Fiction Origins: Henry Holt and Company Release Date: 9 August 2016 Synopsis: “Annie Bell can’t escape the dust. It’s in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children’s dry, cracked lips. It’s 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is…
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Provide, provide, provide
Provide, provide, provide, she repeated in her head as she kneaded bread or wrung out the sheets or ground old wheat into porridge. ~ Rae Meadows, I Will Send Rain: A Novel (Henry Holt and Company, 2016)