Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
3 journalers for this copy...
Pretty good book but I just need to free up some space in my book shelf. :) Giving this one to a friend to pass on.
Got this from a friend, haven't read yet but will let you know what I htought once I have.
Finally got round to reading this, and rather enjoyed it. I was expecting a good old fashiopned 'whodunnit' but this wasn't like that at all. Only complaint really is the length, over 400 pages. Most stories can easily be told with 300 pages (or less) and you really need some reason to go over that. This one was a bit repetitive at places and could've used editing. But all in all, a very enjoyable book, my first by Ruth Rendell as well.
Picked up at a bc meet.
I have read some books by Ruth Rendell, but not his one.
Thank you for the book, kind Bookcrossers!
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From Publishers Weekly
A hard veneer encases 15-year-old Sara. Through a series of hardships and tragedies, Sara, given up at birth by her unwed mother, has traveled from one foster home to another. She eagerly awaits her next birthday, when she can quit school and be on her own. For now, however, Sara must adjust to yet another "placement." Arriving at the Huddlestons' farm, she meets a good-natured couple and their other charges--adorable Josh, age four, and the delinquent Nick, whose misdeeds nearly destroy these individuals' attempts to become a loving family. Johnston, the Canadian author of the award-winning Hero of Lesser Causes , has an uncanny ear for her characters' voices. If the plot is not altogether credible--especially a subplot about Sara's birth mother's search for her--the players are brilliantly etched, and a hint of humor lightens the somber mood. ("I think I ate only enough to keep body and soul on friendly terms," says Sara). Although neither as well-modulated nor as disciplined as Hero , the novel is moving and memorable. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-10-Sara Moone, 15, has found a perfect way to disconnect herself from anyone or anything that threatens to penetrate her prickly armor-she stores her feelings in a computer. Her latest foster home is with the Huddlestons on their Ontario farm. Ma is a nonstop talker and her husband is laconic. Sara soon treats her four-year-old foster brother, Josh, to the cruel pinching game referred to in the title. But slowly her icy defenses thaw, and she begins to let her new family, her social worker, and a local young man into her world. She must deal simultaneously with her other foster brother, Nick, who is eager to be rid of her, and with the arrival of a woman who claims to be her birth mother. When Nick sets a fire in the barn, Sara's buried memory of a fire is triggered, and something painful inside her is released. Her first-person narrative, with its informal language and strong sense of immediacy, has high YA appeal. The themes of the boundaries of parent-child relationships, loss, and the fragile situations of children who must adapt to abandonment are sensitively explored. Each of the supporting characters emerges distinctly, and the woman who says she's Sara's mother is especially compelling. Reminiscent in power and theme of Betsy Byars's The Pinballs (HarperCollins, 1977), but for an older audience, this novel speaks volumes about the complexity of relationships and human affection.
Carolyn Noah, Central Mass. Regional Library System, Worcester, MA
Thank you for the book, kind Bookcrossers!
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From Publishers Weekly
A hard veneer encases 15-year-old Sara. Through a series of hardships and tragedies, Sara, given up at birth by her unwed mother, has traveled from one foster home to another. She eagerly awaits her next birthday, when she can quit school and be on her own. For now, however, Sara must adjust to yet another "placement." Arriving at the Huddlestons' farm, she meets a good-natured couple and their other charges--adorable Josh, age four, and the delinquent Nick, whose misdeeds nearly destroy these individuals' attempts to become a loving family. Johnston, the Canadian author of the award-winning Hero of Lesser Causes , has an uncanny ear for her characters' voices. If the plot is not altogether credible--especially a subplot about Sara's birth mother's search for her--the players are brilliantly etched, and a hint of humor lightens the somber mood. ("I think I ate only enough to keep body and soul on friendly terms," says Sara). Although neither as well-modulated nor as disciplined as Hero , the novel is moving and memorable. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-10-Sara Moone, 15, has found a perfect way to disconnect herself from anyone or anything that threatens to penetrate her prickly armor-she stores her feelings in a computer. Her latest foster home is with the Huddlestons on their Ontario farm. Ma is a nonstop talker and her husband is laconic. Sara soon treats her four-year-old foster brother, Josh, to the cruel pinching game referred to in the title. But slowly her icy defenses thaw, and she begins to let her new family, her social worker, and a local young man into her world. She must deal simultaneously with her other foster brother, Nick, who is eager to be rid of her, and with the arrival of a woman who claims to be her birth mother. When Nick sets a fire in the barn, Sara's buried memory of a fire is triggered, and something painful inside her is released. Her first-person narrative, with its informal language and strong sense of immediacy, has high YA appeal. The themes of the boundaries of parent-child relationships, loss, and the fragile situations of children who must adapt to abandonment are sensitively explored. Each of the supporting characters emerges distinctly, and the woman who says she's Sara's mother is especially compelling. Reminiscent in power and theme of Betsy Byars's The Pinballs (HarperCollins, 1977), but for an older audience, this novel speaks volumes about the complexity of relationships and human affection.
Carolyn Noah, Central Mass. Regional Library System, Worcester, MA
Journal Entry 6 by Annelis at Suomenlinna in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Wednesday, July 26, 2023