Book Reviews by Sondra Eklund Book Reviews by Sondra Eklund| Buy from Amazon.com Rate this Book Sonderbooks 95 Previous Book Next Book Nonfiction Fiction Historical PreviousBook NextBook Young Adult Fiction Children's Nonfiction Children's Fiction Picture Books 2004 Stand-outs 2003 Stand-outs 2002 Stand-outs 2001 Stand-outs Five-Star Books Four-Star Books Old Favorites Back Issues List of Reviews by Title List of Reviews by Author Why Read? Children and Books Links For Book Lovers Book Discussion Forum About Me Contact Me Subscribe Make a Donation I don't review books I don't like! *****= An all-time favorite |  ***Blackbird Houseby Alice Hoffman Reviewed May 12, 2005. Doubleday, New York, 2004. 225 pages. Instead of a traditional novel about one person or family, BlackbirdHouse is a sequence of stories about the different people andfamilies who have lived at Blackbird House on the coast of Maine overthe course of the centuries. The first woman who lived in the house lost her husband and sons to thesea. The stories that follow are haunting, eerie. They’retales of love and loss, of betrayal, of lost innocence. They’restories of the funny turns life can take and of coming home again whenyou need it. Blackbird House isn’t shown as a happy place by any stretch of theimagination. But it’s a house where life happens, with all itsamazing twists. Reviews of other books by Alice Hoffman: The Story Sisters The Probable Future The Foretelling Nightbird Copyright © 2005 Sondra Eklund. Allrights reserved. |