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Jay is torn between his ambition and his growing realisation that he has managed to recapture in Lansquenet the simplicity and magic of his life with Joe, and that he cannot bear to lose it a second time. Jay, perhaps not as much, particularly not at the beginning, but yes, enough that I cared what happened to him. Five Quarters of the Orange tells a multi-generational story with lies, secrets, family database, but with redemption, love, healing, and perseverance shining throughout.
They are about real things and independence and rawness and grief and they make you want to live a wilder, less artificial life and enjoy every damn fruit you eat. Lovely woman, but more than her share of conveniently dead in her life and rather iffy taste in men, although let's hope that we are looking at a brighter future for her. In the first American release of her 1994 second novel, Chocolat, author Harris dives headlong into a ferocious Gothic ghost story.The best times of my life childhood memories were exactly depicted in this wonderful story narrated by a bottle of 'fleurie' wine and the 6 'specials' which are filled with magic.
Nothing evokes memories like scents and Joanne Harris is a 'master' of descriptive prose that will bring memories flooding back.the references to so many of the great songs in the 70's was a delightful, whimsical touch, no magic needed, that made me smile. Growing into a man who can accept the weaknesses and mistakes of others, accept those same things in himself, and figure out how to make things better. I don't drink wine but I related absolutely to the wine in this story; to the stories it tells, to the stories it releases. Kava su pienu tampa riešutine kava su šokoladu, vietovardžiai išversti pagal mėnulio fazę, ne vietovardžių žodyną.