120) 'Jesus, did the whole congregation know.' (LPg. 337) A divorced woman is not allowed to go to church but says, 'It's a pity, but I can read scripture on my own.' (LPg. 209) Mary Louise and Lily wished for a place, 'Where we can do anything.like scream in church.or not even go to church'. 156) Lily wondered if France had Jehovah's Witnesses. Waiting for the coffee pot at church was standing 'at the pulpit of the percolator'. 321) with minimal details about loosing virginity.

316) An unmarried couple uses 'an apartment of romantic assignations' (LPg. Sex - a couple is interrupted before a brief moment of passion goes too far. On a scale of 1 - 5 (5 being a lot of examples/instances): 150) The same comments could've been made today. Ironically, there is a reference to President Reagan talking about the Russians shooting down an air plane saying, 'The Soviet Union violated every concept of human rights.we shouldn't be surprised by such inhuman brutality.' (Ch. I read this at a time when Russia was invading Ukraine. When we meet her she is a young, French woman who secures a job in the American LIbrary in Paris (a real place) even though her father is eager to marry her off. I thought Froid might be a reference to Sigmund Freud but actually the real town is named for the French word for 'cold'. Like so many novels of late, this story is told in two threads - one starts in the past (Paris, 1939) and one starts more recently ( Froid, Montana, 1983). 340) that we are told by a character how to pronounce the main characters name (Oh-deal). It wasn't until very late in the novel (Ch. I wish I had heard the audio to appreciate all of the French names and other words. Unfortunately, I already turned in the print version before I finished going through the eBook notes so some of my references may be out of sequence per the story. I've never been 100% sure, but always believed that regular page numbers, large print page numbers and ebook numbers are the same, however, in this case I am sure they are not. I read the large print hardcover and ebook versions of this novel. Click ' here ' to open new page link to Amazon.

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