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Summary: I'm embarrased to say I really really liked it.
Review: I just got done reading Where the Heart is after 2 days of non-stop reading. I just plain couldn't put it down. It was entertaining, the characters were familiar and loveable, the story, enticing from page one. The reason I'm embarrassed is because I'm a guy who as a rule detests romance novels as much as a paper cut. The only reason I picked up the book was because Natalie Portman was on the cover along with Ashley Judd. I read the first page. Then the second and third. Soon I had finished the chapter and was standing in the checkout line with the book face down hoping no one would see me buying it. I won't go into a summary of everything I liked about it, as there are plenty of summaries already on the page. I will say that I would highly recommend this book to any woman, and to any guy who loves a good story and feels comfortable lying to the cashier about who he's buying the book for.
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Summary: great
Review: the movie pretty much stayed true to this wonderful book.i read it because i loved the movie and after i got finished i let my friend read it and she enjoyed it. i reccomend this book for all fans of the movie.
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Summary: Where the heart is
Review: A seventeen-year-old, seven month pregnant. Novalee nation and her high school boyfriend Willy jack Pickens are going to California for Willy Jack;s new job. On the way, he left her in Wal-Mart in Sequoya. what will a seventeen year old girl do?
Once you open the book, you would keep flipping the pages, filpping them, Letts had written a fine piece of writing, with characters like Novalee Nation, Forney Hull and lexie Coop, it had me captured to the story, the drama of the story is not like other stories that i have read. This drama is the real life drama of some teenage girls.
Novalee, only seventeen has to raise a baby on her own in a town that she knows no one. I really like this charater that Letts had developed. How novalee learns to fit in with the new environment that her mean ex-boyfriend left her in. The whole time that Forney loves her, she doesn't know it. She lerns her mistake from the past that she should lover her baby and her self more than anything, and she's not good enough for anyone.
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Summary: Where the Heart is
Review: Once you open the book, you would keep flipping the pages, flipping them. Letts had written a fine piece of writing. With characters like Novalee Nation, Forney Hull and Lexie Coop, it had me captured to the story. The drama of the story is not like other stories that I have read. this drama is the real life drama of some teenage girls.
Novalee, only seventeen has to raise a baby on her own in a town that she know noone. I really like this character that letts had developed. How novalee learns to fit in with the new environment that her mean ex-boyfriend left her in. The whole time that Forney loves her, she doesn't know it. She learns her mistake from the past that she should love her baby and her self more than anything, and she' s not good enough for any one.
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Summary: Will they surrive ?
Review: The book i read for my independent reading project was a fiction book called " Where The Heart Is" by Billie Letts. The theme of this book is love and happiness. This book is about a seventeen-year-old girl named Novalee Nation. Novalee is a strong young woman who is very determined in life. She's seven months pregnant by her boyfriend,Willy Jack. This book follows a pregnant teenager who had a hard life raising a child and taking care of herself. Novalee is abandoned at a Wal-Mart in Oaklahoma by her low life boyfriend and with only $7.77 in her beach bag. From there, Novalee makes a better life for her and her new born baby, Americus. Throughout the book she meets and befriends characters such as Sister Husband, Lexie Coop and Forney hull who taught her important lessons on life.
I really liked this book. It was interesting to see how a young lady can carry on her life while having to take care of a newborn on her own and without the father there to support them. It was also interesting to see how much Novalee grew from being a poor, naive, unemployed, highschool drop out to a book educated young woman with a growing career as a photographer. This book will make you believe in the strength of friendship, the goodness of down-to-earth people and the healing power of love.
I think this book teaches a lesson. It shows how much of your life is taken away when you have a baby at such a young age,nevertheless not having the father around. It makes it harder when the father takes off because you don't have twice the income coming in for the baby. Most likely it's probably hard being a single parent and not having that much money. Hopefully this book will teach young teenagers to just life their life to the fullest and wait until you find the one you want to marry, get married and then when you're finically stabele, have children.
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Summary: excellent!
Review: I stared this book twice because I thought that it was going to be a sluggish novel that I wouldn't be able to get into. Once I started really reading it, though, I quickly found that I couldn't have been more wrong! Novalee Nation, seventeen years old and pregnant, is left stranded at a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma by her loser boyfriend, Willie Jack. Things obviously don't look so great for Novalee, but she ends up meeting some wonderfully unique people, including a strange librarian who is infatuated with her, Forney Hull, and Sister Thelma Husband, whom she ends up living with. The book was also really hilarious - I rarely laugh out loud in books, but there were lots of little passages that had me chuckling. Don't be fooled, though; there is a lot of drama that goes down, including abuse, neglect, and death. I almost cried when one of the main characters died. The best thing about Letts' writing was how three-dimensional she was able to make her characters. And likeable, too! Novalee is one of my favorite protagonists ever - I was really rooting for her throughout the whole book. Where the Heart Is was one of the most original stories I've read, the kind that made me sit back and just marvel over the author's imagination.
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Summary: "Where the Heart is"
Review: 'Where the heart is' by Billie Letts. This book is a fiction book. I really enjoyed reading this it, I thought it was very memorable. This book is about a girl named Novalee; her and her boyfriend Willie Jack are traveling to Bakersfield, California. On their way to California Novalee has to stop at a local Wal-Mart to buy a pair of shoes because hers fell out of a hole in the bottom of the car. But Willie Jack is getting fed up with having to keep on stopping for Novalee so he just abandons her there. All she was left with was ten dollars. And not to mention she is only seventeen and seven months pregnant and thirty-seven pounds overweight. And she is superstitious about the number seven because she had a bad history with them. But in the parking lot she meets three people who will change her life forever Sister Thelma Husband, Benny Goodluck, and Moses Whitecotton. They help her get through it.
I really enjoyed this book a lot. It was very interesting and entertaining I didn't find myself bored with it at all. This book really showed how it would be like if that truly did happen and how hard it would be also. It felt like I knew Novalee and all the people she met. I would highly recommend this book to anyone because I think they would enjoy it also.
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Summary: Heartwarming
Review: This is a heartwarming novel that appeals to the midwesterner in everyone. It's much better than the movie and much more complex. If you want to curl up on the couch on a winter day and read this would be the perfect selection.
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Summary: this is what America should be about
Review: I saw this story as a movie before I read the book and I have found both to be very entertaining.A young, pregnant woman is abandoned at a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma by the father of her baby. She is seven months pregnant and has seven dollars and seventy-seven cents to her name. (The number seven has been an unlucky number for her all her life.) She meets three people while she is in the Wal-Mart parking lot that offer her friendship and which end up being her extended family. For the first months she secretly lives in Wal-Mart store until the birth of her baby which takes place there. She gets nation-wide media attention because of the unusual situation and a job offer from Sam Walton himself. She is befriended by the people she met that first day and then many others that she meets. They all help her take care of the baby and give her support. The boyfriend who dumps her ends up going down a path of misfortune that one tends to do when they are only concerned about themselves and not with the consequences of their actions. When I said this is what America should be about, I meant the generosity and caring of those people, that met Novalee and learned of her problems, who gave and worked together to help her out and her reciprocy-being there when someone needs help. They didn't have a lot but they shared and did what they could. This would be a much better world if more people would be like that. This was a really interesting book and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: one of oprah's few hits
Review: Oprah's book club has done a lot for the state of contemporary literature, though most of her picks aren't that great. But every now and then she'll pick a good book. Where the Heart Is is one of those good books. It's a sweet story, without becoming saccharine. It's got a great hook--a pregnant woman lives and gives birth in a small town Wal-Mart. Who wouldn't read that? Letts gives you great characters that you can't help but care for in spite of yourself. Letts does flirt with the boundaries of cliche and emotionalism at times, but she never quite crosses that boundary--too badly at least. It's a good book.
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