[bookshare-discuss] Re: just submitted - A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:59:39 -0800 (PST)
Rik,
Until the next Marissa's List comes out or someone on
this list has the book, as opposed to the volunteers
and members who don't subscribe to this list, one
can't know for sure, but I suspect that someone has
downloaded it for validation. Usually books that are
submitted automatically go instantly to the download
list--and I do mean instantly.
I just noticed that you wrote this to the
bookshare-discuss list. More people are on the
bksvol-discuss list. I'll forward your letter to that
list and suggest you join it. Many of us do subscribe
to both, and I think all the questions or comments
you've had in the past have been answered, but, as I
ay, there are more people on that list, I think, and
so one has more of a chance of getting help and
information.
However, there is also more chit-chat--more personal
stuff, which can create a lot of mail. Some people
object, but it really isn't much of a problem if one
just looks at the first sentence of the subject line
and deletes unwanted messges. smile
Cindy
--- Rik James <d28rik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just submitted - A Map of the World by Jane
> Hamilton
> It was scanned with OpenBook but I submitted it in
> Rich Text Format.
> It was on the Bookshare Bounty Wish List.
> Really a good book.
> I checked and it made it to the Step 1 Download
> page.
>
> I also have 2 more books all scanned and ready for
> validation.
> Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
> This is also on the Bookshare Bounty Wish List.
>
> I did upload this book, Breath, Eyes, Memory and got
> the Thank You for
> submitting page. But it does not appear on the Step
> 1 page, at least when I
> last checked.
>
> Should I resubmit it? I don't want to cause
> confusion with a duplicate.
> Perhaps someone can let me know either on or off the
> list.
>
> The Woodsman's Daughter by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
>
> This book Woodsman's Daughter, for some reason I
> could not get it to upload.
> It is also in .RTF, and I'm sure all the forms are
> okay. But the error
> message just says some information is incorrect or
> incomplete. I will try
> again after awhile.
>
> Thanks.
> Rik
>
> Here is some text about A Map of the World...
>
> DESCRIPTION: A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
>
> FROM THE BOOK JACKET.
> In the tradition of The Good Mother by Sue Miller
> and Before and After by
> Rosellen Brown, A Map of the World is the riveting
> story of how a single
> mistake can forever change the lives of everyone
> involved - in ways that are
> beyond imagination.
>
> One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as
> usual, trying to keep in
> check both her temper and her tendency to blame
> herself for her family's
> shortcomings. Six years ago, when the Goodwins took
> over the last dairy farm
> in the small Midwestern town of Prairie Center, they
> envisioned their home
> as a self-made paradise. But these days, as Alice is
> all too aware, her
> elder daughter Emma is prone to inexplicable fits of
> rage, her husband
> Howard distrusts her maternal competence, and
> Prairie Center's tight-knit
> suburban community shows no signs of warming to
> "those hippies who think
> they can run a farm." A loner by nature, Alice is
> torn between a yearning
> for solitude coupled with a deep need to be at the
> center of a perfect
> family.
>
> On this particular day, Emma has started the morning
> with a violent tantrum,
> her little sister Claire is eating pennies, and it
> is Alice's turn to watch
> her neighbor's two small girls as well as her own
> children. She
> absentmindedly steals a minute alone that turns into
> ten: time enough for a
> devastating accident to occur. Her neighbor's
> daughter Lizzie drowns in the
> farm's pond, and Alice - whose volatility and
> unmasked directness keep her
> on the outskirts of acceptance - becomes the perfect
> scapegoat. At the same
> time, a seemingly trivial incident from Alice's past
> resurfaces and takes on
> gigantic proportions, leading the Goodwins far from
> Lizzie's death into a
> maze of guilt and doubt culminating in a harrowing
> court trial and the
> family's shattering downfall.
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