Books to Read Before I Die
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"A Virtuous Woman" by Kaye Gibbons
Product Description(Amazon.com)
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. She was the daughter of Carolina gentry. He was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.
# Paperback: 176 pages
# Publisher: Vintage (November 5, 1997)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0375703063
# ISBN-13: 978-0375703065
MY THOUGHTS: I like the way this book is written. Each person, Jack and Ruby, are telling the story. You get different views of each of their lives. How they meet, their life together, and Ruby's illness. You see Ruby has Cancer. So they are telling the story of her life. I would really recommend this book, it's really easy to read. I got hooked as soon as I started reading it. Couldn't put it down.
MY RATING: 5
2 wonderful people stopped by:
I love Kaye Gibbons' books. Try her Ellen Foster if you haven't read it yet!
I enjoyed this one too! Had the somewhat surreal experience of grabbing it to keep me busy while I sat with my dad in the hospital following his lung cancer surgery, opened it up and first thing is Ruby having lung cancer. Oh my! had no idea of the plot but it all turned out well.
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