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Everything My Mother Taught Me (Inheritance collection)

Everything My Mother Taught Me (Inheritance collection)

byAlice Hoffman
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Leslie Zak
5.0 out of 5 starsSad but satisfying short story
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 13, 2023
Adeline loses her beloved father and has to deal with her morally corrupt mother. Her mother gets work as a housekeeper at a lighthouse, neglects her and takes up with a married man. While deprived from attending school, Adeline finds happiness on the little island and comes to love the wronged wife who she helps get away. Adeline uses what she has learned from watching her mother to find a future for herself. This terrific short story has a whole novel of emotions, justice and hope to savor.
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N. A. Horan
3.0 out of 5 starsI know it’s just a short story, but…
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 28, 2023
The characters aren’t very well developed. I felt as if I learned more about the island than I did about the people who populated it.
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Leslie Zak
5.0 out of 5 stars Sad but satisfying short story
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 13, 2023
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Adeline loses her beloved father and has to deal with her morally corrupt mother. Her mother gets work as a housekeeper at a lighthouse, neglects her and takes up with a married man. While deprived from attending school, Adeline finds happiness on the little island and comes to love the wronged wife who she helps get away. Adeline uses what she has learned from watching her mother to find a future for herself. This terrific short story has a whole novel of emotions, justice and hope to savor.
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4.0 out of 5 stars a beautiful short story!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 25, 2023
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I loved this, as with all this amazing author’s work, well written and very compelling! I definitely recommend this book!
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Sharon Cianciosi
4.0 out of 5 stars wishing there was more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2023
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In true Alice Hoffman style this read with such ease but so short it left me longing to read more of this story .
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4.0 out of 5 stars My mother taught me
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2023
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This is a simple sad story. The characters are not as well developed as they are in Alice Hoffman 's other shorts. I was sorry not to have some glimpse of the anticipated happy ever after before the story ended.tv v
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Janet R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun listening to this short story
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2023
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I liked the main character, Adeline a lot.
She was wise beyond her years. I appreciated the loyalty to her mother, but still selling out the awful husband who cheated on his wife.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Everything My Mother Taught Me
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2023
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This was s great detailed short story. I enjoyed it very much and would recommend it highly. It is interesting how Mothers can teach without even talking.
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D.L. Almazar
5.0 out of 5 stars Great things come in small packages!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2023
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I don't know how she does it, but Alice Hoffman can write a short story and make it seem like you've read full book. What a great story this book told. A young girl being brought up by her mother, who made very bad relationship decisions. Adeline, made the best of her situation and despite the loss she experienced, and the move they had to make, she made friends and found love and support from those around her. This is my second short story I've read by Alice Hoffman. What a wonderful treat each one has been. I'm looking forward to more!
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jmh
5.0 out of 5 stars Great author wrote highly satisfactory unpredictable short story
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2023
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Alice Hoffman is one of my favorite authors and she did not disappoint. This condensed version was just right. I loved the pre-pubescent daughter, Adeline, daughter of a horror of a mother, Nora Ivie. Nora is mean and self-centered. But her daughter is smarter and proves it to her abusive mother. At one point they live on a lighthouse island after her adored father becomes ill. Wise beyond her years, Adeline turned the tides on her mother.
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Dianna Fisher
4.0 out of 5 stars wish the was more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2022
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I enjoyed the story was looking forward to where the road led Adeline but the book was done, liked her spirit
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N. A. Horan
3.0 out of 5 stars I know it’s just a short story, but…
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 28, 2023
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The characters aren’t very well developed. I felt as if I learned more about the island than I did about the people who populated it.
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