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Fall on Your Knees

Fall on Your Knees

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It just caught my brother's eye YAY
Review: The feelings don't stay on the pages or on the very tip of your eye or conscious! They dive from their place and bury themselves in your soul!!! This book will change your life, out look and mind If it didn't then you must have read it wrong and just didn't get the point!!! My brother bought this for my 16th birthday and i finished it in a week, i usually sit on a book for some time, making sure i understand it's every word. This book hit me, my favourite part would have to be when Rose and Kathleen find each other, i think it was just beautiful, so soft, but raw at the same time....mr Piper drew great anger from me! the parts i didn't enjoy hurt a bit to read, but without them the beautiful parts would only have been pretty!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wonderful and moving
Review: The characters in the book are extremely well crafted, Francis draws you in and you feel everything she is experiencing and you find yourself cringing when things go poorly for her. The book covers death, birth, love, hope and abuse in a fashion which I found believeable and moving. She has created characters which seemed to live in my mind and I dreaded coming to the end of this wonderful book. I am anxiously awaiting Ms. MacDonald's next one.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: YUCK!
Review: After all the praise, I expected a GOOD book, but was I disappointed! Has MacDonald every heard the word "anachronism"? Didn't anyone else notice that the father was referred to as "Rudolph" because of his shiny shoes while in the WWI trenches? "Rudolph" was written in the 1950s!! And that whole ridiculous sequence of a young girl walking from Cape Breton to New York in nothing but an antique silk dress -- and then walking directly to the right address! The whole thing was just a pile of tripe. Would this book have been nominated for anything if it hadn't been written by a Canadian woman? Gives a whole new meaning to chauvinism. Just because it's Canadian doesn't mean it deserves any Canadian writing awards.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: No place to go but down!
Review: Having not read anything but hard, non-fiction in many years I decided to take a chance and read a contemporary Canadian bestselling author... "Where have I been???"

"FALL ON YOUR KNEES" is truly awing... I was awakened in every sense. My only regret is that I have embarked on a journey to fine literature that begins in a luxurious penthouse suite... I now find myself confined to cheap and tawdry motel rooms rented by the hour! Thank you Ann-Marie!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Finally - Women do exist in Cape Breton!
Review: As an MA student, I was interested in doing research about literature in Cape Breton. However, the traditional writers of Cape Breton seemed to leave out a portion of the Island experience that is vital - female characters and their authentic experience. Even though Ann Marie MacDonald is not a native of Cape Breton, she captures in her female characters a reality that transcends our own but also speaks to female internalization of a patriarchal culture. The Piper girls learn a kind of alienation that descends from Scottish and Irish cutlure, strict Christianity, and gender relations that subvert female lives. On the other hand, other characters such as the families of Whitney Pier, find a way to counteract the traditional subjugation of women. This book was so real and poignant in its delivery that my mother, a native Cape Bretoner, could relate easily to its content and situations. This book impressed me so intensely that I am writing my MA thesis on it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: put aside a weekend to devour this book!
Review: I picked up this book to browse & found myself a hundred pages in before I had even looked up. This rich story with its engrossing characters will pull you right into New Waterford and not let go until the very last page (even then-you'll be wanting more). The best book that I read in 1997.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fantastic book, best I have read in 1997
Review: It grabs you from the 1st page. It keeps you engrossed from page to page until you can't wait to read the last word.Then you read the last sentence you exhale. Brava!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AMAZING !!!
Review: My family roots are from Cape Breton, including New Waterford. Its not a book that I would typically read but last year my grandmother passed away and she lived most of her life in the little mining town of New Waterford and I loved the idea that I could see what her life was really like in those times. It is a beautiful novel, one that I wished would never end. Once I finished I felt like Frances was my best friend and she just moved away....I'll never forget her.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book reads like a fabulous poem
Review: This book is by far the best book I've read this year. At first it may seem to be about the typical dysfunctional family, but upon further examination it becomes a deeply moving story about life in all its' trials and joys. I loved this book for its' brutal honesty and truths buried in us all.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wonderful celebration of the human spirit (really!)
Review: This has to be the best book I've read this year. The story of a family progressing (badly) through the early decades of this century in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, it covers just about every conceivable tragedy which might befall a family of that time and place, from disease to child abuse and suicide. And yet, told as it is with great good humour and without judgment by the author, this ends up being a thoroughly satisfying, enlightening and heartening book. You'll laugh and you'll cry, and you won't be able to put it down. What more could you want?


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