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Cargando... Still Waters (2001)por Jennifer Lauck
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A true story of survival. I really liked it, but wished I had first read Blackbird. This book is the sequel. ( ) This book came out late September; I have never waited to read a book before it was published until this one. Jennifer continues telling her story and you can see how she has grown into a woman who has had to harden her heart or be mortally wounded. She has been a person with a definite will to live and she turns her life experiences into positive lessons. Great! (As Michelle would say, "Love Her!" If you enjoyed Lauck's first novel in this memoir series then you're likely to enjoy her second, Still Waters. For me, this novel was a bit more dark and twisted and I didn't enjoy the place the story telling came from. It was a great novel though and was well written. Perhaps I just felt too uncomfortable with the events occurring in the story. It was very interesting to follow Jennifer's life through this next phase of her journey and to see how her past affected her future and in what ways. A true coming of age occurs here. Well written memoir of a girl growing to adult hood in very trying circumstances, and then having to come to grips with the anger the abuse and it effects had on her and her brother. I found parts of the book very difficult to read, but once I was passed that section it was easier. I always approach a memoir with a good deal of scepticism because how can one remember things from so long past and when one was so young. The two books by Lauck were particularly difficult to believe because she never suggests that she kept a diary or anything else that would have aided in her writing, but obviously some of the things were very well remembered because in book two she finds written confirmation of events in the first book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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" Anger is a poison ivy in the heart and if it grows unchecked, it covers all the soft spaces where you love and understand and feel joy. There's power in anger, sure, a power that can help you survive. But true wisdom is in knowing when to let it go. In "Still Waters, Jennifer Lauck continues the riveting true story begun in her critically acclaimed memoir, "Blackbird. Clutching her pink trunk filled with secret treasures, the last relics of a lost childhood, twelve-year-old jenny steps off a bus in Reno and straight into the wide-open future, where no path is certain except that of her own heart... Separated from her brother, Bryan, and passed from caretaker to caretaker, Jenny endures as she always has: by following the inner compass of the survivor. But when Bryan chooses a shocking, tragic destiny, Jenny must at last confront the secrets, lies, and loneliness that have held her prisoner for years. Embarking on a search for answers, the adult Jenny discovers that the past cannot be locked away forever -- even when unraveling one's own anger and pain seems an impossible feat. Now, in the warmth and understanding of No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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