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The Puzzle BarkTree
by Stephanie Gertler | Literature & Fiction
Registered by cinderspritzer of Denver, Colorado USA on Friday, June 23, 2006
Average 9 star rating by BookCrossing Members 

status (set by amberC): to be read


6 journalers for this copy...

Journal Entry 1 by cinderspritzer from Denver, Colorado USA on Friday, June 23, 2006

This book has not been rated.

i found this in a cafe. I don't plan to read it, but I figure someone else might like it.


*edit*

I marked it traveling because I planned to wild release it and never got around to it. Today is 7/25 and I'm mailing it to BC'er AceofHearts in Ontario. 


Journal Entry 2 by AceofHearts from Mississauga, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, August 01, 2006

This book has not been rated.

received today from CinderSpritzer. Thank you so much!!! This book is in trade for The Brick Lane which is next up on Mtn TBR 


Journal Entry 3 by HoserLauren from Toronto, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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Stole from my mom's bookcase to read. Looks good! 


Journal Entry 4 by HoserLauren from Toronto, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, November 20, 2007

9 out of 10

Grace Hammond and her sister Melanie grew up in a home with very little emotion. Their mother would sit for days on end in her room, not talking to her children. Their father was a busy lawyer and spent most of his time at home consoling his wife. Grace and Melanie grew to love their housekeeper, Jemma, like a mother.
When Grace and Melanie are grown up, they make a tradition of seeing their parents during the Christmas holiday. Jemma decides to head to the Hammond household a couple days before Christmas to help them get ready but makes a shocking discovery. They are both sitting in their bed, dead. When the will is read, Grace discovers that her parents left her a house on an island that she never knew her parents had.
Grace tries to cope with finding out why her parents lived as they did, why she never knew about this island, reoccurring dreams of her and her sister drowning, and a very emotionally detached husband.
This book really brings you in to the characters' lives. Though it is fairly easy to discover the Hammond's secret past, you want to find out why and how. This story is about grief and loss, but there are moments of happiness and finding true love that makes the book as much of a non-genre as it does a romance. The romance isn't cheesy like typical romance books, but quite beautiful.
This book gets your attention at page one and you will have troubles putting it down. This really is a great book! One of the better one's I've read in the past couple of months. 


Journal Entry 5 by AceofHearts from Mississauga, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, November 20, 2007

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This book is with me. Next in line!! 


Journal Entry 6 by AceofHearts from Mississauga, Ontario Canada on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

9 out of 10

Grace and Melanie grew up with parents who showed them no emotions. The only love they got was from their housekeeper,Jemma. When their parents commit suicide only days before Christmas, they face a journey of uncovering the past and unearthing their parent's true spirit.

Grace inherits an island in upstate New York which she and her sister have never heard of let alone visited. Grace decides to go there after the funeral instead of to Aspen with her sterile husband.

Grace has suffered from some nightmares of her drowning and her parents abandoning her. At Sabbath Landing Grace finds Luke who helps her to understand her troubling memories and her background. This is a story that is spell-binding. I found myself in tears at the end and that has not happened in a long time

 


Journal Entry 7 by HoserLauren from Toronto, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, January 01, 2008

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I sent this book over the weekend to AlterEgoZoe, who will then put it in an Mbag for CatsAlive.
Thanks AEZ :) 


Journal Entry 8 by AlterEgoZoe from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania USA on Friday, January 04, 2008

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Got today. Reserved for Cats. 


Journal Entry 9 by wingcatsalivewing from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, May 27, 2008

This book has not been rated.

Thanks Lauren. 


Journal Entry 10 by wingcatsalivewing from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, January 30, 2010

This book has not been rated.

I couldn't get into this, it seems to be a glorified romance. Sending to amberC next. 


Journal Entry 11 by wingcatsalivewing at Australia, Book Relay -- Controlled Releases on Monday, May 10, 2010

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Released 2 yrs ago (5/9/2010 UTC) at Australia, Book Relay -- Controlled Releases

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Sent to amberC for the make me read it relay. 


Journal Entry 12 by wingamberCwing from Darwin, Northern Territory Australia on Thursday, May 13, 2010

This book has not been rated.

Arrived today with lots of surprise travelling compaions. Thankyou. 




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