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This is a book of short stories about Andrea Carter and her family. They live in California. Their home is called Circle C Ranch. It's in Central California. However, another story takes place at Puget Sound in Seattle. Andi Carter has a close relationship with her brothers, Justin, Mitch, Chad and sister, Melinda. The stories are historical adventure stories. In the late Nineteenth Century, people seem to have a very strict way of doing things. Andi's mother scolds her for wearing "britches." Little girls wear pants all the time now. However, that was a different time. This is also a time when calling cards are used.Calling calls were used to announce a visit. The Christmas story is my favorite. I had no idea how this story would turn out. Andi and her brothers go up into the Sierra mountains to find a Christmas tree. They get caught in a blizzard. I worried about Andi, Chad and Justin facing the very cold night. Thinking of this adventure I think of pan

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I finished  "Tales from the Circle C Ranch by Susan K. Marlow. Next I'm reading From Good to Grace by Christine Hoover. Then, I will start "The Hawk and the Dove" by Penelope Wilcock.   http://bookjourney.wordpress.com

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Tawni O'dell's One Of Us is a Psychological drama. The story takes place in a community of miners. Danny Doyle and the lives of other characters led me to see it's possible to survive the hard knocks of abuse and ugliness. Danny's work is in Philadelphia. The circumstances in the lives of people he know will lead him to  face ghosts from the past. In this instance, Danny is called back to Lost Creek because his Grandfather Tommy is very ill. Danny heads back. His journey will lead to the unfolding of many manipulated lives. These past stories are a show of darkness and light or death and resurrection. After many frightening, faltering, shocking steps through the novel, One Of Us,  I pondered the fact that maybe a "real" death can be a resurrection for some people. I really was moved by the quote at the end of the novel , "Watching the two of them I suddenly understand that a man's life story is written before it even begins, all of his choic

"Stars twinkled in the indigo sky as dusk settled over South Carolina's Halliehurst Beach like a blanket of spun silk. Waves lapped and burbled on the sandy shore and sawgrass whispered in the gentle breeze." rosecityreader.blogspot.com

"Where do you think that boat washed up again?" Jory asked Drayton as they began to close in on Sullivan's Island." http://www.fredasvoice.com/2015/04/the-friday-56.html#comment-form