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From: Kimberly Turner <kimbat>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:48:36 PDT
Hi all,
I just finished reading Lily's Crossing and I have to say it was a wonderful book! I really felt connected to the characters and I felt comfortable with the way the author portrayed that time period in history.
I found Lily to be a well thought out character. The part in the book where she is going to sleep on the porch and looking up at the stars dreaming about what she would do if she was the one who spotted a plane with bombs coming down, and how she would rescue all her neighbors rings so true with a girl her age. (How she really didn't understand the severity of an actual German plane dropping bombs on her Rockaway community.)
As for the title, Lily's Crossing, I tend to agree with some of the other participants in this discussion. Lily certainly crosses over into another dimension of being part of the human race. At first she thinks only of herself, but as the story progresses, she becomes more aware that not only are there other people in the world with problems (Albert not knowing where his sister is, Margaret's brother being MIA, etc.), but that some of her own problems are not as terrible as she thinks.
(Gram seems to be a "problem" in her life until as time goes on she is able to see what a "treasure" Gram really is in her life.)
The ending. I loved it! I, too, desperately wanted it to be a happy ending. I think the fact that Eddie is still missing at the end of the story shows the reader that not everything turns out O.K. in the end. If he had been found, I think I would've felt very differtly about the ending.
I just loved Lily's Crossing. It was a good, emotional, (yes, I cried), historical novel that touched me in more ways than one.
************************************************************ Kim Bears Phone: (603) 43227 Head of Children's Services Fax: (603) 437f10 Leach Library E-mail: kimbat at hotmail.com 276 Mammoth Road Londonderry, NH 03053
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Received on Fri 17 Oct 1997 09:48:36 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:48:36 PDT
Hi all,
I just finished reading Lily's Crossing and I have to say it was a wonderful book! I really felt connected to the characters and I felt comfortable with the way the author portrayed that time period in history.
I found Lily to be a well thought out character. The part in the book where she is going to sleep on the porch and looking up at the stars dreaming about what she would do if she was the one who spotted a plane with bombs coming down, and how she would rescue all her neighbors rings so true with a girl her age. (How she really didn't understand the severity of an actual German plane dropping bombs on her Rockaway community.)
As for the title, Lily's Crossing, I tend to agree with some of the other participants in this discussion. Lily certainly crosses over into another dimension of being part of the human race. At first she thinks only of herself, but as the story progresses, she becomes more aware that not only are there other people in the world with problems (Albert not knowing where his sister is, Margaret's brother being MIA, etc.), but that some of her own problems are not as terrible as she thinks.
(Gram seems to be a "problem" in her life until as time goes on she is able to see what a "treasure" Gram really is in her life.)
The ending. I loved it! I, too, desperately wanted it to be a happy ending. I think the fact that Eddie is still missing at the end of the story shows the reader that not everything turns out O.K. in the end. If he had been found, I think I would've felt very differtly about the ending.
I just loved Lily's Crossing. It was a good, emotional, (yes, I cried), historical novel that touched me in more ways than one.
************************************************************ Kim Bears Phone: (603) 43227 Head of Children's Services Fax: (603) 437f10 Leach Library E-mail: kimbat at hotmail.com 276 Mammoth Road Londonderry, NH 03053
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