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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh gosh. This is honestly my favorite book and I have read it maybe 20 times. It gives me comfort like a warm blanket. I’m sorry you aren’t enjoying it OP. It is such a wonderful book. I will say it changes a lot halfway through when she becomes older and gets a job. Maybe that part of the book will appeal more to you. I loved the everyday scenes of her childhood in Brooklyn the best myself.[/quote]

I just finished my sixth or seventh read of it a few weeks back. I first read it in seventh grade and am now a mother of 4. So much goes over your head as a child and now there is a new heartbreak being more able to relate to Evy, Johnny, Katie and McGarrity than little Francie and Neeley. Ack! [b]The scene where Johnny goes to bed and Katie in a rare show of affection, throws a sleepy arm over his chest. And he slowly removes it and stares silently at the ceiling all night. [/b][/quote]

So poignant! This shows Smith's skill as a writer.  This happens after Johnny realized that Katie had "failed" a bit in her tough-love parenting, by sending kids alone to immunizations and then scolding poor Francie when her arm was infected, like it was her own fault.

Yet, Katie could also be heartbreakingly candid, like when Francie questioned her about possibly losing her viriginity to the charming sailor cad - the truthful one (horrible things could have happened to you) and the second truthful second one, "As a woman, I tell you it would have been special because there is only once in life you love that way."[/quote]

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