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Summary: Even Buckeyes Love Sparkle Island
Review: For a died in the wool Buckeye, it was hard to imagine that a book about a place in that State up North that we all love to hate could be so warm and wonderful. Ellen Rosewall's special spirit and keen insights, however, clearly illuminate the joys of love, life and Wallon Lake. Being invited to share her obviously close, loving and spiritual family in such an intimate way, made Sparkle Island a truely heart warming experience!
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Summary: Even Buckeyes Love Sparkle Island
Review: For a died in the wool Buckeye, it was hard to imagine that a book about a place in that State up North that we all love to hate could be so warm and wonderful. Ellen Rosewall's special spirit and keen insights, however, clearly illuminate the joys of love, life and Wallon Lake. Being invited to share her obviously close, loving and spiritual family in such an intimate way, made Sparkle Island a truely heart warming experience!
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Summary: "Sparkle Island" Sparkles
Review: For anyone who has returned to a summer place year after year "Sparkle Island" is a must. Ellen Rosewall lets us inside her own family and her own world. It is very refreshing. I visited Walloon Lake two summers ago and it was exactly the way Ellen pictured it.
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Summary: Sparkle Island
Review: From the first page to the last, my husband and I cried, laughed, sighed, remembered, and imagined -- sometimes all at the same time -- as we read this wonderful book together. Anyone who's ever known the wonder of returning year after year to a special place will immediately find themselves at home, and in love with this book.
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Summary: Can't get enough
Review: Sparkle Island is a fantastic book which reminds us that in todays world of constantly shifting workplaces,homes, relationships or whatever, that the most important things cannot be bought for any price. Family life is the one true thing that needs to be cherished and I feel honored to be an observer into this author's family.Not only are readers allowed a glimpse into an obviously warm and loving family, we are allowed to experience cottage life, with all of its charms. The sense of closeness they share and experience at the cottage almost convinces the reader Ja-Ma-Ca has magical qualities, which indeed it may have! I have traveled around somewhat and still have many places I yearn to visit but now Walloon Lake is on my list. I long to collect a Petoskey stone, to eat planked whitefish, to go for a boat ride on the lake, and most of all to play petanque! Read this book and share it with others. You won't be disappointed, especially if you have a cottage or have summered at one.
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Summary: Often humorous, thoroughly engaging, and highly recommended
Review: Sparkle Island is a touching recollection of multi-general stories that hark back to a slower paced yesteryear, when life was filled with tales and all one had to do was sit back and listen. From Ernest Hemingway Sat Here, Lost in the Lake, and A Boat is a Hole You Pour Money Into, to Gimme That Old Time Religion, Cheap Thrills, and I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday for a Memory Today, Ellen Rosewall's short stories and vignettes are entertaining, occasionally insightful, often humorous, thoroughly engaging, and highly recommended.
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Summary: Summer Sweetness
Review: Sparkle Island is a wonderfully crafted, winsome revery of summer. The stories evoke summers from my childhood and gave a West Coast gal a taste of mid-west wonders. This read aloud book had me alternately howling (Bats, And a boat is....) and touched by the sweetness of shared family treasures. Our first read of this wonderful book of essays was on a boat. We joined Ellen Rosewall's family as we drifted through our own Sparkle Islands. Read this book aloud to everyone!
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Summary: Summer Sweetness
Review: Sparkle Island is a wonderfully crafted, winsome revery of summer. The stories evoke summers from my childhood and gave a West Coast gal a taste of mid-west wonders. This read aloud book had me alternately howling (Bats, And a boat is....) and touched by the sweetness of shared family treasures. Our first read of this wonderful book of essays was on a boat. We joined Ellen Rosewall's family as we drifted through our own Sparkle Islands. Read this book aloud to everyone!
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Summary: Sparkle Island
Review: Sparkle Island is one of the most delightful books I have ever read. Ellen Rosewall has an extraordinary gift for bringing the reader right onto the porch of her family's enchanting cottage. You can almost taste the lemonaide. Like any fine writer, Ellen writes what she knows. Her subject is familiar to anyone who has ever enjoyed a family vacation in a familiar cottage and anyone who has just dreamed of such a pleasure. Every detail of cottage life is described in such a way that the reader can't help but want to plan a vacation to Walloon Lake or a reasonable facsimile. This book should be in every family and vacation cottage on earth, if only to inspire others to record and remember their family history.
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Summary: Sparkle Island
Review: Sparkle Island is one of the most delightful books I have ever read. Ellen Rosewall has an extraordinary gift for bringing the reader right onto the porch of her family's enchanting cottage. You can almost taste the lemonaide. Like any fine writer, Ellen writes what she knows. Her subject is familiar to anyone who has ever enjoyed a family vacation in a familiar cottage and anyone who has just dreamed of such a pleasure. Every detail of cottage life is described in such a way that the reader can't help but want to plan a vacation to Walloon Lake or a reasonable facsimile. This book should be in every family and vacation cottage on earth, if only to inspire others to record and remember their family history.
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