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Loading... Good-Bye and Amen (edition 2008)by Beth Gutcheon (Author) Jennifer708 | Mar 21, 2020 |   I did want to see how some of the secondary conflicts ultimately played out, but perhaps that's material for a sequel. Also, I could never figure out who exactly the ghostly narrator was, although that could be because I hadn't read Leeway Cottage first. I also appreciated the brief biographies of each character at the back of the book. I only wish I had found it sooner. It would have made things so much easier if it had been at the beginning. Some quotes I enjoyed: "Andrew Carnegie said that if you die rich, you die disgraced. Well, Mother will be safe with Andrew, if they meet in heaven. She'd been living beyond her means for years. Way beyond." (Page 4). "Apparently once Rachel threw his suits into the bathtub and set them on fire so he wouldn't have anything to wear to work. That's not normal. But I begin to think there may well have been two sides to that story." (Page 28). You don't say... "There are always two sides in a marriage. Always. At least two." (Page 28). "Once I understood where the ring came from, I wanted it. It's hard, dividing this stuff. It isn't really bits of stone and metal and wood. It's the history of our family. Who loved who, who was cruel, who was kind." (Page 52). On a larger scale, this is why we need archeologists and indeed the entire field of archeology. "I once worked in a school where they'd had a really pugnacious head. He couldn't get along with anyone, although he'd come with great recommendations. Turns out the last school gave him glowing recs because they wanted to get rid of him." (Page 62). I laughed so hard. (  ) Jennifer708 | Mar 21, 2020 | I did want to see how some of the secondary conflicts ultimately played out, but perhaps that's material for a sequel. Also, I could never figure out who exactly the ghostly narrator was, although that could be because I hadn't read Leeway Cottage first. I also appreciated the brief biographies of each character at the back of the book. I only wish I had found it sooner. It would have made things so much easier if it had been at the beginning. Some quotes I enjoyed: "Andrew Carnegie said that if you die rich, you die disgraced. Well, Mother will be safe with Andrew, if they meet in heaven. She'd been living beyond her means for years. Way beyond." (Page 4). "Apparently once Rachel threw his suits into the bathtub and set them on fire so he wouldn't have anything to wear to work. That's not normal. But I begin to think there may well have been two sides to that story." (Page 28). You don't say... "There are always two sides in a marriage. Always. At least two." (Page 28). "Once I understood where the ring came from, I wanted it. It's hard, dividing this stuff. It isn't really bits of stone and metal and wood. It's the history of our family. Who loved who, who was cruel, who was kind." (Page 52). On a larger scale, this is why we need archeologists and indeed the entire field of archeology. "I once worked in a school where they'd had a really pugnacious head. He couldn't get along with anyone, although he'd come with great recommendations. Turns out the last school gave him glowing recs because they wanted to get rid of him." (Page 62). I laughed so hard. ( ) Jennifer708 | Mar 21, 2020 | ) Smits | Sep 28, 2018 | Fiction based on fact including pictures, this is a generational story about a family and a summer home in Maine. Good story! But there were so many references to people from the other book, the past, that it made the reading a wee bit confusing. THAT SAID: I WOULD read another by this author. ( ) lineells | Oct 19, 2017 |  ) amusedbybooks | Dec 9, 2010 | Told through the voices of the many participants in their lives, and a little bit like reading random Facebook postings, the novel is a bit like fitting a jig-saw puzzle together & I ended up being grateful for the glossary of characters that the author supplied at the end of the book. I don't think this novel really worked stylistically, but I so enjoyed the book that it's a sequel to, that I kept reading all the way to the end. ( ) etxgardener | May 23, 2010 | The format is unusual. The story is told in little “bursts” of one or a few paragraphs from a particular character, and then switches to another character. It took me a few pages to get used to it, but I found it quite enjoyable. The phrasing of each “burst” is very conversational – I could almost “hear” each character talking to me. I got the sense of being at a party, milling around collecting the gossip from various people. Or of watching a montage of television interviews, getting just the sound bites without the interviewer’s questions. Each character’s personality really comes through just in their perspective of events and the wording they choose. There is one character who has passed on, and is sharing his lofty wisdom from the great beyond. I didn’t enjoy this perspective as much as the other characters, as it didn’t seem to fit with the daily concerns and everyday personalities of the rest of the ensemble. Perhaps that was the point, and it was just lost on me. I may have appreciated this voice more had I already read Leeway Cottage (the prequel). ( )1  SugarCreekRanch | Sep 4, 2009 |  ) lmikkel | Jul 5, 2009 | ) Copperskye | Sep 26, 2008 | ) hammockqueen | Sep 1, 2008 | |
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I did want to see how some of the secondary conflicts ultimately played out, but perhaps that's material for a sequel. Also, I could never figure out who exactly the ghostly narrator was, although that could be because I hadn't read Leeway Cottage first.
I also appreciated the brief biographies of each character at the back of the book. I only wish I had found it sooner. It would have made things so much easier if it had been at the beginning.
Some quotes I enjoyed:
"Andrew Carnegie said that if you die rich, you die disgraced. Well, Mother will be safe with Andrew, if they meet in heaven. She'd been living beyond her means for years. Way beyond." (Page 4).
"Apparently once Rachel threw his suits into the bathtub and set them on fire so he wouldn't have anything to wear to work. That's not normal. But I begin to think there may well have been two sides to that story." (Page 28). You don't say...
"There are always two sides in a marriage. Always. At least two." (Page 28).
"Once I understood where the ring came from, I wanted it. It's hard, dividing this stuff. It isn't really bits of stone and metal and wood. It's the history of our family. Who loved who, who was cruel, who was kind." (Page 52). On a larger scale, this is why we need archeologists and indeed the entire field of archeology.
"I once worked in a school where they'd had a really pugnacious head. He couldn't get along with anyone, although he'd come with great recommendations. Turns out the last school gave him glowing recs because they wanted to get rid of him." (Page 62). I laughed so hard. (