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From: WMMayes at aol.com <WMMayes>
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 02:40:22 EDT
I revere this sequence of novels. Maybe it is the Maryland setting so perfectly described that I can smell the air and taste the crabs. I, too, am no fan of stubbornness, but these Tillermans are so real that I have come to love them, faults and all.
SOLITARY BLUE is a rare book, one that shows cross-gender insight I am almost afraid of. How can Voigt know the inner workings of a boy so well? This is her most deeply affecting book for me.
But is the end of THE RUNNER that destroys me every time I read it, with the line about Gram picking up the burden of a long life. The book ends with an image of her that completely explains the woman we find on the porch in HOMECOMING.
Such a finely crafted series.
Walter M. Mayes Walter the Giant Storyteller WMMayes at aol.com
"Love, Food, Shelter, Clothing...Books!"
Received on Sun 16 May 1999 01:40:22 AM CDT
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 02:40:22 EDT
I revere this sequence of novels. Maybe it is the Maryland setting so perfectly described that I can smell the air and taste the crabs. I, too, am no fan of stubbornness, but these Tillermans are so real that I have come to love them, faults and all.
SOLITARY BLUE is a rare book, one that shows cross-gender insight I am almost afraid of. How can Voigt know the inner workings of a boy so well? This is her most deeply affecting book for me.
But is the end of THE RUNNER that destroys me every time I read it, with the line about Gram picking up the burden of a long life. The book ends with an image of her that completely explains the woman we find on the porch in HOMECOMING.
Such a finely crafted series.
Walter M. Mayes Walter the Giant Storyteller WMMayes at aol.com
"Love, Food, Shelter, Clothing...Books!"
Received on Sun 16 May 1999 01:40:22 AM CDT
