I wrote, "Mattie has a dictionary that her mother bought - her mother saved up money to get it. Īll page numbers refer to the hardcover edition. There's no going back once you're already gone. When Weaver asks her why she's going now, she tells him, "Because Grace Brown can't.". I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you. He probably just wanted some company, for it is very lonely knowing things. It was a dreadful thing that he did, and he is not to be admired for it, but right then I felt I understood why he did it. "Sometimes I wish there really was such a thing as a happy ending." Spoiler alert: Emily ends up being her teacher. "Emily Baxter's poems made my head hurt.". "It was a strange feeling - worrisome and exciting all at once. When I happened upon those quotes today, I thought I'd share them here see which of my readers also read and enjoyed the book. Planning to write a review, I took notes, but the paper filled with quotes rather than commentary.
Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, this Printz Honor-winning coming-of-age novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.I read A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly nearly five years ago, when it was a readergirlz book selection. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from Big Moose Lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder. She takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. With the fresh pain of her mother's death lingering over her and the only out from her impoverished life being marriage to the handsome but dull local rich boy, Maddie flees from her home. Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has a word for everything, and big dreams of being a writer but little hope of seeing them come true. Jennifer Donnelly is the master of historical fiction!" -Ruta Sepetys, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Carnegie Medal Now with a fresh new look and introduction, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing, Printz Honor-winning debut-the story of a young woman's coming-of-age and the murder that rocked turn-of-the-century America.
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