Come join us and spark some enthusiasm for the themes in the books we’re reading. Theme Thursdays is hosted by Reading Between Pages.
Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event that will be open from one thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:
- A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
- Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
- Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
- It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
Ex: If the theme is KISS; your sentence can have “They kissed so gently” or “Their lips touched each other” or “The smooch was so passionate”
This will give us a wonderful opportunity to explore and understand different writing styles and descriptive approaches adopted by authors.
This month’s themes are published in advance as well.
FEMALE NAME (any female characters name)
Today I’ll be sharing from a book on next week’s list The Sisters, by Nancy Jensen.
Blurb: In the tradition of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, a dazzling debut novel about the family bonds that remain even when they seem irretrievably torn apart
Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other—with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But on the day that Bertie receives her eighth-grade diploma, good intentions go terribly wrong. A choice made in desperate haste sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and reverberate through three generations of women.
What happens when nothing turns out as you planned? From the Depression through World War II and Vietnam, and smaller events both tragic and joyful, Bertie and Mabel forge unexpected identities that are shaped by unspeakable secrets. As the sisters have daughters and granddaughters of their own, they discover that both love and betrayal are even more complicated than they seem.
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Mabel would be upset to know Bertie was thinking this way. Lately, Mabel had talked as hopefully about her finishing high school as Mama once had—all through that sad winter after the doctor, fearing for the baby, had put Mama to bed.
(this excerpt is from the ARC version).
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It was easy to find female names in a book called The Sisters…LOL. What did the rest of you discover? Come on by and share, please!
SNOW SPARKS 
Always feel badly when reading about women who died giving birth. You discovered two good names.::))
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Oh, me too, Tea. But the emotional reads are more satisfying, aren’t they? Thanks for stopping by.
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Luv your pages. Where do you find these pretty pages? Luv.
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Thanks, Tea. Word Press has a lot of themes, and I’m always playing around with them. If they allow for “backgrounds,” I upload images that I enjoy.
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Surely you could have not missed a female’s name given the book title. Thanks for the blurb, I am always eager to know a little something about the book.
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I think it was a safe bet, Kavyen! LOL
Thanks for stopping by…and for hosting this event.
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This looks like a really good read. Love the pretty cover, too 🙂
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Oh, I love the cover, too, Yvonne…the broken teacup must symbolize the broken relationships. Thanks for stopping by.
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Sounds like an interesting one. I’m wondering what (if anything) Bertie is short for (Alberta?). Hmmm.
Here’s mine: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/11/theme-thursday-female-name.html
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That would be my guess, Bev. I’m very curious about this one, now! Thanks for stopping by.
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