Somebody Else's Daughter
Registered by 
herchelle
of Calgary, Alberta Canada on 10/12/2010
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
herchelle of Calgary, Alberta Canada on 10/12/2010 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
9 journalers for this copy...
Found a few more books today to shore up my toppling Mount TBR
From your Mt. TBR to my Mt. TBR...
Thanks a ton, herchelle!
Thanks a ton, herchelle!
Somebody Else's Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that threaten to come to light. Willa Golding, a student, has been brought up by her adoptive parents in elegant prosperity, but they have fled a mysterious and shameful past. Her biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, needs to see the daughter he abandoned, and so he gains a teaching position at the school. A feminist sculptor initiates a reckless affair, the Pioneer students live in a world to which adults turn a blind eye, and the headmaster's wife is busy keeping her husband's current indiscretions well hidden. Building to a breathtaking collision between two fathers--biological and adoptive, past and present-- Somebody Else's Daughter is both a suspenseful thriller and a probing study of richly conflicted characters in emotional turmoil.
I really enjoyed this story. It was like peelling back layers of secrets in a small town where everything looks perfect on the surface, but secrets abound.
Very satisying from start to end and I will look for other titles by this author.
Very satisying from start to end and I will look for other titles by this author.
Released at the January meet-up of Calgary Book-Crossers - Joshua Tree Café.
Picked up at January get together
There were a whole lot of different plots going on through the story, and once or twice I had to re-look up who certain characters were. And there was also a bit too much drinking, teenaged drugs, and affairs for my usual taste. Some of the plot points were predictable. However, it was very well written, was interesting and had good characterization. The different sculptures used for separating the different parts of the book was also a cool idea.
Thanks for the interesting read!
Thanks for the interesting read!
Taken to get together at the Joshua Tree cafe
Picked up at the July Calgary Bookcrossing Meeting.
This was actually quite a creepy story, because the story focused mostly on everyone's dirty secrets. There wasn't as much focus on Willa's relationship with her biological and adoptive father as I thought there would be, but that was, actually, one of my favourite plots, and I thought it resolved the best.
I kind of wonder if people are really that unpleasant.
Remember to journal this book and pass it on, it relies on you to continue its journey.
I kind of wonder if people are really that unpleasant.
Remember to journal this book and pass it on, it relies on you to continue its journey.
Taken back to the Calgary Bookcrossing Meeting.
The Calgary Bookcrossing group meets every second Saturday in the Joshua Tree. Join us on Facebook!
The Calgary Bookcrossing group meets every second Saturday in the Joshua Tree. Join us on Facebook!
Sorry so late registering this.....Crossing Guard brought it home for me and then I went on holidays....
This was an interesting book. It wasn't as good as I had hoped, I guess like dentric trees I would have like more about Willa and her dad. I quite liked most of the characters and found it hard to watch them implode. None the less I did enjoy the book.
I am taking this book to our monthly bookcrossers meet up at the Joshua Tree Cafe - the second Saturday of every month- to pass on to the next reader.
Picked this up at today's meeting. How did I come home with so many books? Adding to my TBR mountain.
Adding this one to the Calgary Book Box. Hopefully it will find a new reader.
Pulled this out of the Travelling Covid Book Box.
These full circles have interesting travels. Interesting characters and interesting weaves in the story. I likes the words crossingguardma used "imploding" characters.
Well, I have had to pick a few of my read books to add to this Covid book box.
Caught via the local circulating book box #1
Releasing during a Bookcrossing meetup in Calgary AB
I forgot to log this one back in June!
Taken to the Sept meeting! Another book I got during the move to listen to as I unpacked.
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
After 13 years, this book has finally come back to me. Now to make a decision. I have so many books on my TBR Mountain Range but the reviews are sounding interesting or shall I wild release it??
So I brought this home from our Bookcrossing meetup today!
It was so great to see everyone, again!
So I brought this home from our Bookcrossing meetup today!
It was so great to see everyone, again!
Journal Entry 25 by herchelle at 1 of the Lil Lib.s NW/NE ( Happy Hunting! ) in Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, January 6, 2024
herchelle at 1 of the Lil Lib.s NW/NE ( Happy Hunting! ) in Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, January 6, 2024
Released 3 mos ago (1/6/2024 UTC) at 1 of the Lil Lib.s NW/NE ( Happy Hunting! ) in Calgary, Alberta Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
4 Ave NW near 9A St, Calgary
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