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Lädt ... Down from Cascom Mountain (2011)von Ann Joslin Williams
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I was not able to finish this book. It might have been a matter of the wrong book at the wrong time, but I just could not connect with the characters and the alternating chapters contributed to my inability to follow the plot. I will probably give this book another try before I assign it to the give away pile. The story sounds interesting. ( )Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. Discussion Questions from the Publisher:1. Discuss the prologue of Down from Cascom Mountain. What was Mary Hall like as a teenager? What kinds of formative experiences did she have while working at the lodge? How do her first brushes with love and death influence her later in life? 2. Consider the landscape of Leah, New Hampshire and Cascom Mountain. What dangers lurk in the landscape’s trails, forests, and cliffs? What solace do Mary, Callie, Ben, and Tobin find within this landscape? 3. Describe Tobin’s complicated relationships with the women of the novel: his mother, Mary, and Callie. Why does Tobin appoint himself Mary’s protector? Why doesn’t his father protect him from his mother? Why does Callie, too, need Tobin’s protection? 4. Discuss the brief marriage of Mary and Michael, who only knew each other for nine months before Michael’s fatal accident. What attracted Mary and Michael to each other initially? How did they fall in love so quickly? 5. Discuss Mary’s mourning process. What helps her cope during the painful first months of her life without Michael? How does her appearance and demeanor change during mourning, and when does she start to look and feel more like her former self? Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. This is a novel about grief and about moving on after a loss. Mary and Michael Walker arrive on Cascom Mountain in New Hampshire to spend the summer at Mary's childhood home. Mary has deep roots attaching her to the mountain, Michael is a newcomer. Just days into their summer Michael falls off one of the mountain's cliffs. Mary is left widowed. When Michael's estranged father arrives he and Mary, along with several alienated teenagers working on the mountain for the summer, start to forge connections and work out their problems. This was a perfectly acceptable book, but nothing really stood out about it. I was never especially invested in Mary or Callie, Mary's teenage friend. The most interesting character in the book is Tobin, a bright but shy teenager, recovering from years of abuse at the hands of his mentally ill mother. Sadly he is a fringe character. Williams writes very believably about grief, I just wish that the book had more plot to add to the emotion. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. Down from Cascom Mountain opens with the main character, Mary, searching through the forest for a lost girl. Seventeen, Mary is the only female crew member at the local lodge. Earlier that day, a young man died in the woods of Cascom Mountain, and Mary, after carrying him down to the lodge, tries in vain to find his girlfriend. Years later, Mary returns to the mountain with her new husband, Michael. Here, history repeats itself - Michael falls while hiking and dies, and Callie, a crew member at the lodge, helps to carry his body out of the forest. Stricken with grief, Mary remains in her parents' house on Cascom; slowly, she begins to deal with her pain and live again, befriending Callie, Tobin (a neighbour boy with troubles of his own), and Ben (the forest ranger).Williams does a good job fleshing out the personalities of the secondary characters, particularly Callie, who I quite enjoyed. The narration flips between characters, and Callie's voice was the most authentic. Her boy-troubles and adventures with her fellow crew members formed the most interesting sub-plot; in contrast, Mary's dealings with her father-in-law were rather boring, and Tobin's difficult family life needed more detail. Ultimately, the ending fell flat - it was too neat, and moved in leaps and bounds, where the rest of the novel was more of a stroll. Suddenly it was over, and I wasn't really sure what had happened. More attention to this section of the novel would have helped a great deal with my overall impressions - a bad ending can ruin what would otherwise be a perfectly good novel. Not that this wasn't enjoyable - Williams can write, and every time I started a chapter narrated by Callie, I was sucked in. All-in-all, an OK book, but one that I won't be reading again. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. The story of Mary coping with the tragic loss of her new husband moved along at an excellent pace - explained in-depth without moving slowly. The "subplots" of the secondary characters varied. I would have liked either more with Clayton dealing with the death of his son or none at all. Tobin and his family were interesting and had history with Mary. And the staff added an interesting contrast to Mary's situation. But the subplots seemed to end abruptly and appeared disconnected to the main character. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: Ann Joslin Williams grew up observing the craft of writing: her father, Thomas Williams, was a National Book Award-winning novelist. Many of his stories were set in the fictional town of Leah, New Hampshire, and on nearby Cascom Mountain, locations that closely mirrored the landscape of the Williamses' real hometown. With Down from Cascom Mountain, Ann Joslin Williams proves herself a formidably talented novelist in her own right, while paying tribute to her father by setting her debut novel in the same fictional world-the New Hampshire he imagined and that she has always known. In Down from Cascom Mountain, newlywed Mary Hall brings her husband to settle in the rural New Hampshire of her youth to fix up the house she grew up in and to reconnect to the land that defined her, with all its beauty and danger. But on a mountain day hike, she watches helplessly as her husband falls to his death. As she struggles with her sudden grief, in the days and months that follow, Mary finds new friendships-with Callie and Tobin, teenagers on the mountain club's crew, and with Ben, the gentle fire watchman. All are haunted by their own losses, but they find ways to restore hope in one another, holding firmly as they navigate the rugged terrain of the unknown and unknowable, and loves lost and found. .Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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