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This author is a wonderful storyteller. A journey of love through the eyes of a china rabbit

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Etta and Otto and Russell and James, by Emma Hooper (2015 🇨🇦)
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Premise: An 82-year-old Saskatchewan woman living with dementia embarks on a long-desired trip to see the ocean, leaving her ailing husband alone with his memories.

Review: This novel felt to me like it wasn‘t sure whether it wanted to be a modern fairy tale or something more down to earth. Its themes of dreams deferred and duty, and depiction of prairie are great.⬇️

Random book from our home library.

My 2017 rating: ★★★★★

2✨ Okay, my four year old is telling me that she liked how they shared the orange in the end, but from tree to store did not win her over. I liked the farm to table knowledge a kid can gain from this picture book while the writing was simple, yet poetic. I would give it a 3✨

A Christmas gift and a book I‘d never heard off 🤯
A mystical magical story of a woman who travels the world alone to stay ahead of a mysterious illness
It‘s a lovely but odd story. There were times when I was captivated but others when I was just “wrap this up” and yet it went on. The ending was lovely

Reading and breakfasting in bed on a gray Saturday morning

"We lie on our backs on the trampoline, drawn into the center by each other's weight. The universe stretches wide above us, framed by a ring around us."

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A woman's extraordinary journey around the world, driven by an unseen illness. At the age of 9, Aubry was struck by a mysterious sickness that forced her to leave home and travel constantly, unable to stay in one place for too long without suffering intense pain. A very long book, but full of adventures of strength, wonder, love, loss, grief, and more. The end was a bit strange though. Book #22 in 2025

#CoverStories Day 18: Central to this tale is the plight of a father and his young son (who was sent a new pair of #shoes by his mother who is working in the United States) as they travel from their home in El Salvador to Guatemala to the US-Mexican border, ostensibly to be reunited with the mother. My review of this timely tale: https://wp.me/pDlzr-gum