Candle in the Darkness

This book, Candle in the Darkness, is another great book by Lynn Austin. Here is its story:

The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist movement, where she is confronted with the risks and sacrifices her beliefs entail.

Caroline Fletcher.
I think her strong beliefs were right. Slavery was wrong. She really is convincing, and kind. I feel sorry for her when Charles finds out about it. She is a sweet girl, and pretty smart for her age(I mean, that is in the part when she was still a little girl). When she grew up, she was even smarter. I really like Caroline, because she is sensible, nice...you know. I like her very much.

Charles.
He is really nice also. He can be very angry sometimes, as you can see in the last part when he finds out. In the end, when Josiah told him everything about Caroline, and he read all she wrote, he understood her situation.

I think these two are all the characters I'll do. Sorry that it is so short, I hope you don't mind. You should read this one. It is a masterpiece!

Hidden Places

Here it is, like I said, Hidden Places! It's a wonderful book about:

A deep yearning for home had led Eliza to Wyatt Orchards ten years ago. Now widowed with three young children, she faces mounting debts and the realization it is all up to her. But she has no idea how she will run an orchard alone.

When a stranger appears at her doorstep, Eliza guesses he is no different than the other out-of-luck characters searching for work during the Depression. But the familiarity which Gabe tends to the frm raises unaswered questions. With a vulnerable heart, she is unwittingly drawn to his gentle ways. But Eliza also fears that Gabe hides a past and motives that could jeopardize all she has fought to attain for herself and her children...

Eliza Wyatt.
Eliza is sometimes very grumpy, but she is very kind. And concerned for her three children.

Gabriel(Gabe)Harper.
Gabe helps Eliza a lot, which I appreciate. He is kind, but hides his past. I like him very much and I feel sorry for him because of what he had to go through.

Lydia.
Lydia is Aunt Batty's sister. Some things Lydia did where not good and things I didn't like about her, but all what she did for Batty...I forgive all her earlier mistakes, and I really feel sorry for her. She had gone through a lot of things too.

Aunt Batty.
I like her so much! She is really a great aunt, and person. The stories about her and her sister were so sad. And Walter...I just love Batty so much. And she loves to read books.

Walter.
I don't have much to say about him, I warn you. Well, he is kind, tries to keep Batty out of sorrow, concernes about her...he is really nice.

We don't have more important people in this book. The husband of Lydia, of course. But I don't want to talk about him, he is awful, and terribly cruel, and mean. Let's just not talk about him. So, the book is wonderful, and amazing. It's really good and Lynn Austin did a GREAT job writing this. They made a movie about it(or two?), but it was ridiculous how they changed it. It was not fun anymore. They shouldn't do that. After all, it's one of Lynn Austin's best works. No one must ruïn this book and its story.

Wonderland Creek

Wonderland Creek is a great book and one of the best of Lynn Austin! I wish they would make a movie about it, and do the movie exactly like the book, not very different. That would be an amazing movie! Here is the back of the book. If you haven't read the book, you should. It's great!

I was perfectly content with my life--that is, until the pages of my story were ripped out before I had a chance to live happily ever after.

Alice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book. But the happily-ever-after life she's planned on suddenly falls apart when her boyfriend breaks up with her, accusing her of living in a world of fiction instead of the real one. To top it off, Alice loses her beloved library job because of cutbacks due to the Great Depression. 

Longing to run from small-town gossip, Alice flees to the mountains of eastern Kentucky to deliver five boxes of donated books to the tiny coal-mining town of Acorn, a place with no running water, no electricity, and where the librarians ride ornery horses up steep mountain passes to deliver books. When Alice is forced to stay in Acorn far longer than she planned, she discovers that real-life adventure, mystery--and especially romance--may be far better than humble dreams could have imagined.

That was about all where it is about. Now on to the characters.


Alice Grace Ripley
Alice is kind on her own way, stubborn, she has her nose stuck in books...That is all I have to say about her. Nothing else.

Mack.
Mack is the samen as Alice, actually. He is kind, stubborn, loves books. That's why he became a writer and librarian. He and Alice fit perfect. He does not like his first name, Leslie(if I were a boy and were called like that, I wouldn't either), and that's why he likes himself to be called Mack, after his last name MacDougal.

Lily.
Lily is old, and wise. She is kind(although it is not likely to believe it at many times), also stubborn(everyone is), and...yes, what shall I say? She has the power to...force someone to do things. She knows how to handle a weapon, and she is kind of a medicine woman.

So, this will be all, will it? It's the end. The next book will be Hidden Places.

Character introduction-Lily McConnor

This is Lily McConnor.

She is only child and a spoilt by her parents, Nathan and Catherine McConnor. Her father's bank has gone bankrupt, leaving her father with little money. They have to sell most of their things, which is hard, and have to go out of their house. Lily doesn't know anything of the life of the poor. Robyn, which I spoke of, helps her settle and they become friends. Later Lily meets Miriam, who becomes a friend too. She finds out that Robyn's mother was called Fay Ingrid Malcomb. Lily recognizes the name and finds out who it is, because she want to do something for her friend.

Character introduction-Robyn Brandon

This is Robyn Brandon and her story:

Robyn Brandon's mother died of nemonia and her father remarried. Eliza, her stepmother, is not always easy to be with. Her father has no work. She has a younger brother, Jimmy, two twin stepsisters, Katie and Belle,

Katie is the girl with the pink skirt, and the other is Belle. The bigger girl is Robyn.

 a stepbrother William, and a baby stepbrother, Davy. Her father is Stewart Brandon and her late mother was called Fay Brandon. They're poor. Robyn works and doesn't go to school.

A title

Okay, a title is maybe the hardest thing when you write something. I need a title for my story. This is where it is about, so you have a idea.

It is in the Great Depression time, about three different girls(I'll introduce the other two later). Uhm,that's about everything...

If you have any idea's for titles, please tell me by commenting. I don't have a good title yet. So, this was just a short announcement to ask you all if you have any ideas.

Character introduction-Miriam Cohen

                                           Miriam Cohen

 

This is Miriam Cohen. She is one of my major characters. This is her story.

Miriam is happy with her family. She has a house, her father and mother have a job(one of the few), she has friends, family... she couldn't wish for more. But then her friends discover that she is of Jewish origin. Fanny, Nancy, Marjorie and Patty, some of her friends, mock and neglect her, they don't want to be friends with her anymore and bully her. They tell the whole school that she is Jewish, which ruins Miriam's life. Only two of her best friends, Jessica and Rose, stay with her and ignore the talks of the others. Together with her friends, Miriam keeps her courage, and at last her friends have sorry and ask her to forgive her. She has a brother, Noah, and a little brother Aaron. Her mother is Esther and her father is Samuel.

First Post-The Painter's Daughter

It's always hard, the first post. Because I just recently read this book, I'll start with this one.

The Painter's Daughter by Julie Klassen.

Here is a part of the story. What you can read on the back of the book, I mean.
Sophie Dupont, daughter of a portrait painter, assists her father in his studio, keeping her own artwork out of sight. She often walks the cliffside path along the north Devon coast, popular with artists and poets. It's where she met the handsome Wesley Overtree, the first man to tell her she's beautiful.

Captain Stephen Overtree is accustomed to taking on his brother's neglected duties. Home on leave, he's send to find Wesley. Knowing his brother rented a cottage from a fellow painter, he travels to Devonshire and meets Miss Dupont, the painter's daughter. He's started to recognize her from a miniature portrait he carries with him-one of Wesley's discarded works. But his happiness plummets when he realizes Wesley has left her with child and sailed away to Italy in search of a new muse.

Wanting to do something worthwile with his life, Stephen proposes to Sophie. He does not offer love, or even a future together, but he can save her from scandal. If he dies in battle, as he believes he will, she'll be a respectable widow with the protection of his family.

Desperate for a way to escape her predicament, Sophie agrees to marry a stranger and travels to his family's estate. But at Overtree Hall, her problems are just beginning. Will she regret marrying Captain Overtree when a repentant Wesley returns? Or will she find herself torn between the father of her child and her growing affection for the husband she barely knows?

So, that was the back of the book. Here are the most prevalent characters:

Sophia Margaretha Dupont.
She is really kind, but when she was scared for Captain Overtree, I think she was doing a little bit ridiculous. I know, she loves Wesley(which I can't understand, by the way), but she can be friendly and sweet to Captain Overtree. Happily she does that later. I think she deserves to have a good husband and a happy marriage. I'm glad she accepted the offer of the captain.   



Stephen Marshall Overtree.
He was send to find his brother Wesley, and finds that he left Devonshire to sail to Italy. He discovers that Sophie carries a child from his brother and proposes to her to save her reputation and that of his brother. He is really very kind and I feel sorry for him because of his brother, who mocks on him, calling him Captain Black or Marsh. He may be a little bit violent sometimes, but that is normally to protect people dear to him.

Wesley Overtree.
He is very annoying. That is the first thing I have to tell about him. In the first part, I found him annoying, and later on he was even more annoying, when he came back to Overtree Hall. He mocks on his brother Stephen and says that he is all mean and grumpy and that he never smiles, and tries to take revenge on himself. Well, he has it wrong. Despite of all that up there, he has a heart. He does not interfere with his brothers marriage to ''his Sophie'', as he likes to call her, ''mia Sophia'', you know, and lets Sophie live with her child Mary Catherine and Stephen. That is something what I like in him.

Catherine ''Kate'' Overtree. 
She is sweet, innocent and she loves Mr Harrison, the sun of the clergyman. Not that other man, that awful one, I forgot his name. I like her very much.

Angela Jane Blake.
I feel sorry for her because of what Wesley has done to her(he has done lots of things). I like her because she is friendly to Carlton Keith. And because she is kind and brave.

Carlton Keith.
Carlton Keith(I'd rather stick to Mr Keith, if you wouldn't mind)is really kind, if you ask me. 
I really like him. Maybe he is a drinker of wine, and that sort of stuff, but he stops with that.
And he is really friendly and tries to help Stephen(and Sophie).

That were most of the characters. There is Winnie, the nanny, Stephen's parents, Sophie's family, Sophie's friend...and more. But this is it for now.

The book.
I think it is a great book! One of the best books of Julie Klassen(and also the newest). It is really a good book, you have to read it.

Enjoy!