One of the motivations behind The Heroine’s Bookshelf was to remind readers (and myself) that we are protagonists of our own lives. Call me egotistical, but I don’t see any reason why we can’t see ourselves as heroines, stars of our own particularly tricky novels, no matter how mundane or
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“Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery It’s that time of the year. The time when your impossibly put-together friends announce that they are going to accomplish a Huge
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There are some books you come back to again and again at different points in your life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is that kind of book, so imagine my pleasure to see that Harper Perennial’s 2010 book club covered the book for January. Writing a chapter on ATGIB and
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Well, some writers must have an ivory tower but I need trouble. – Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Francie Nolan – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
I know now why I told you so many lies, Mother. I wanted you to notice me.
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