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Please post a comment to give us your review of the latest book you read. What did you like about it? What was your favorite aspect of the book–the characters, the story, the setting? Let us know what you think!
Please post a comment to give us your review of the latest book you read. What did you like about it? What was your favorite aspect of the book–the characters, the story, the setting? Let us know what you think!
Just finished reading Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell and I couldn’t wait to share it with others. This book, set in Scotland, is about two young sisters, Marnie the oldest and Nelly, the younger, that are orphaned when their drug addicted parents die closely together. Not wanting to be separated, the girls bury their parents in their back yard and pretend that they left them to go on holiday. The girls are fortunate to find a protector in a lonely old man who lives next door that needs to take care of someone as much as they need to be taken care of. It is with Lennie, the neighbor, that the girls get their first taste of what true family feels like. The small family will go through many challenges including; a secret that Lennie is ashamed to share, Marie’s acts of rebellion, Nelly’s odd behavior and most threatening of all the grandfather they never knew reappearing in their lives looking for their mother.
Today is Christmas Eve.Today is my birthday.Today I am fifteen.Today I buried my parents in the backyard.Neither of them were beloved. These are the first lines of the book and they quickly bring home the fact that this is not your typical feel good easy read but it is worth the ride and in the end there is a sense of hope and knowledge that no matter what happens, these three wounded souls are a family and always will be.
I hope that you will read Death of Bees and enjoy it as much as I did. Please feel free to leave comments with your thoughts on this book or any other that you have read. Happy Reading!!!
Dora Minichello Library Director, Lodi Library