(理解) of love doesn't sound like summertime reading,Far From the Tree:Parents,Children and the Search for Identity will teach you otherwise.如果你认为700页的篇幅讲述了不同寻常的孩子(自闭症、聋哑人、罪犯、天才)如何延伸他们家庭的爱的理解,听起来不像是暑期读物,那么Far From the Tree:Parents,...
)选项C.“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”根据文中“This story tells of the difficulties and delights of life for Francie and her Irish family in New York in the early 1900s.”(这个故事讲述了20世纪初期,在纽约的 Francie 和她的爱尔兰家庭,生活的困难和欢乐。)选项D.“Pride and Prejudice.”根据文...
9.Vietnamby Stanley Karnow: Years ago, I got caught up in watching the TV seriesChina Beach, and I decided I didn’t really now enough about the Vietnam War. So I read this BIG, detailed book, and learned a ton. Fascinating… but I still can’t believe I read it. And finally, ...
Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) is beloved and celebrated for its depiction of tenement life in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn during the years leading up to World War I. In theory, it would be a great place to start a book on Irish American fiction from World War ...
1800s.A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty SmithThis story tells of the difficulties and delights of life for Francie and her Irish family in New York in the early 1900s.Pride and PrejudiceJane AustenAmusing story of a young woman's adventures and misadventures in the English society of the 19th ...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith…such a good book about a girl coming of age. I love Jodi Piccoult…but clearly who doesnt?! I’m also a fan of anything by Chris Bohjalian, he writes a lot of books about really interesting, sometimes controversial topics. Hope you find some...
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by jordanccrook January 14, 2022 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith I’m someone who really likes classics, even really long, slow ones, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith, is definitely both of those things. In that sense, I have to admit that this isn’t a cla...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith This is a re-read and I’m still reading it. I’m trying to take it slow and notice things about the writing and the storytelling. My edition has a wonderful introduction written by Anna Quindlen in which she says that the book is very difficult...