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Summary: This Book Stayed with Me
Review: This was my fourth or fifth Danielle Steel book to read and I think I loved this book much more than the rest. This story grabbed me and wouldn't let go. It stayed in my mind for 3 days straight after I first read it. The characters and their love story was the most heartbreaking thing I have ever read. He was married to an unloving wife which made him miserable and she was a young girl who didn't know what love was...until they met. I give this book 5 stars because it kept me interested and wanting more when I finsihed it. It isn't one of Danielle Steel's longer books, but it has a very compacted and dramatic story. When you start the book, it is told from the point of view of a character who is not named, but she is the pivitol beginning and ending of this story. It is the middle of the book that focuses on the two main characters who make up the love story.
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Summary: Granny Dan
Review: This is one of the best Danielle Steel's novels... It tells the story of a young girl, Danina Petroskova, who became a Russian ballerina at a very young age. Her mother died and her father and brothers, who were involved in the Russian army during the time of the Czar, could not take care of her. She was brought to a ballet school and because she showed great talent, she was allowed to stay and train. The story tells of her hard work and dedication to become the prima ballerina.
Danina faced many obstacles during her youth and young adulthood in the ballet. She suffered with a nearly fatal illness that left her weak and lifeless. At the same time she began a forbidden romance with her married physician... As the romance blossomed, her life began to change and she wanted more than just the discipline and recognition of the ballet.
The story is fascinating and is told in a flashback format after Danina's granddaughter in America found her love letters and ballet slippers in the closet. Granny Dan, now an elderly grandmother, had an exciting and passionate life that was hard to believe and her granddaughter uncovered it after she passed away.
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Summary: Granny Dan
Review: Granny Dan was a very touching book, and I found to be much better than Danielle Steel's other books. This is a necessity for every young person to read; it shows you that even though "Granny Dan" was elderly, she wasn't always that way. This is a common misconception w/ the young people of today. I really enjoyed the book, especially since I'm a dancer as well. It was a wonderful story, that I truly enjoyed! Pick up the book today!
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Summary: Granny Dan
Review: Danina, the main character, is a remarkable ballerina. She makes everybody around her joyful because of her glowing personality.
This is an excellent book because it is about a girl named Danina whose mother died when she was young and her father and brothers and to go away and leave for the war, therefore, her father sent her to a ballet school. She was petrified of going and didn't want to leave her father.
She grows up at the ballet loving her teacher, Madame Markova, like her own mother. Happy she went there in the first place, she grew to love everybody. She worked hard and was the best ballerina there, when unexpectedly, she fell ill one day and could not dance. The Czarina sent one of her doctors to help her because they were close friends with Danina, and Danina soon left with them to a small cottage that they had. Everybody thought she wasn't going to live, but they were all wrong. She soon fell in love with her doctor, who in return, felt the same way for her as he says in the book, "'Danina...I Love you...' and without waiting for an answer from her, he bent gently toward her and kissed her." Danina was scared because he was married, had children, and told him that they shouldn't. Later on as she gets better, she ends up having an affair with her doctor, and she soon returns to the school rejoining Madame Markova. Madame Markova soon suspects that she is in love and it is going to ruin her. Madame Markova had always told her that she should never let a man get in the way of her dancing because it would ruin her life, and she wouldn't give it her all. When she had found about Danina in love, she says, "You are a whore now, like the others, the little cheap ones who dance and play, and to whom it means nothing. You should be dancing on the streets in Paris, not here at the Maryinsky. You don't belong here. I always told you, you cannot be like them if you truly want this. You must choose, Danina." Danina loves dancing, because that was all she knew ever since she was a young girl to the age of 19, but she is also terribly in love with her doctor. She can't decide which she wants more.
To find out her decision, then you should read Granny Dan by Danielle Steel because I think it is a great book.
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: This book was the first book that I've ever read by Danielle Steel, and that was over six months ago. Since then, I have gotten hooked on her historical fiction books, but yet continue to come back to this one, Granny Dan.
It's a wonderful story that takes place in Russia. But most of all, this story revolves around the idea that you never really know someone in your family, like your grandparents, etc.. You never know who they were when they were younger, what they were like, what experiences they had, and you are left wondering these things when they are gone. And if only you knew their story, about their life, you could learn so much. That's what happens in this book.
Granny Dan was the grandmother who loved to rollerskate, who loved to sing, but yet she never talked about her past. When she passes away, a box is delivered to her granddaughter, and inside are the things that reveal Granny Dan's past: toe shoes, a locket, and a stack of letters... all these things unlock the mystery to Granny Dan's past. Things that her granddaughter never knew.
This book takes place in Russia in 1902. It talks about the Czar and Czarina, and life in the imperial court. Danielle Steel's charecters are so life like and real, that you're sure to get swept up in this magical story that takes you to another place (Russia, 1902), another life (the Imperial court and the ballet). It's a story that makes you wonder that if only you knew about the past behind your own relatives, you could learn so much.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This is another book that DS manages to put us "there". You will be in this girls shoes, you will cry for her, cheer, smile. What a great journey.
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