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Ann Hood

Autor(a) de The Knitting Circle

41+ Works 5,132 Membros 289 Críticas 5 Favorited

About the Author

Ann Hood was born on December 9, 1956, in West Warwick, R.I. She attended the University of Rhode Island and New York University. For several years, she worked as a flight attendant before pursuing her dream of becoming a writer. Ann Hood had a dream of writing ever since her first "novel" at the mostrar mais age of 11. It was not until 1987, with the publication of Somewhere off the Coast of Maine that she received the recognition she had been longing for. Set in the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, the story deals with the lives of three women of the Vietnam era and their children. Strong on emotion and personal growth, Hood's writing frequently examines the intricacies of various levels of relationships. Other works include Something Blue, which also involves the association between three friends. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Ann Hood

The Knitting Circle (2008) 1,028 exemplares
The Obituary Writer (2013) 663 exemplares
The Book That Matters Most (2016) 470 exemplares
The Red Thread (2010) 304 exemplares
Creating Character Emotions (1998) 289 exemplares
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting (2013) — Editor — 265 exemplares
Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine (1988) 240 exemplares
An Italian Wife (2014) 189 exemplares
Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (2008) 178 exemplares
Fly Girl: A Memoir (2022) 148 exemplares
Morningstar: Growing Up With Books (2017) 139 exemplares
Ruby (1998) 111 exemplares
She Loves You Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (2018) 94 exemplares
Properties of Water (1995) 66 exemplares
Places to Stay the Night (1993) 66 exemplares
Something Blue (1991) 46 exemplares
Providence Noir (2015) — Editor — 45 exemplares
Pearl Buck: Jewel of the East (2012) 39 exemplares
Three-Legged Horse (1989) 38 exemplares
Waiting to Vanish (1988) 36 exemplares
Crazy Horse: Brave Warrior (2013) 27 exemplares
Harry Houdini: Prince of Air (2012) 22 exemplares
Amelia Earhart: Lady Lindy (2014) 20 exemplares
Jude Banks, Superhero (2021) 14 exemplares
Clementine (2023) 6 exemplares
The Stolen Child (2024) 4 exemplares
Coney Island Dreams (2010) 2 exemplares
L'amante perduto 1 exemplar
Strikkesirkelen 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Best Food Writing 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave (2007) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
Best Food Writing 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family (2007) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
The Writer's Notebook II: Craft Essays from Tin House (2012) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (2002) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Crush: 26 Real-lifeTales of First Love (2011) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Working Days: Short Stories About Teenagers at Work (1997) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Because I Love Her (2009) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Story, Vol. 46, No. 2 [Magazine, Spring 1998] (1998) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares

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booklover3258 | 10 outras críticas | Jan 29, 2024 |
Between 3 and 4 stars. I enjoyed the basic plot about a recently divorced woman trying to get used to her new life and make new friends by joining a book club. I enjoyed the parts from her daughters POV. What I did not enjoy was the actual book club. I thought the literary discussion seemed forced and took away from the flow of the novel.

I thought some characters felt real like Ava and Maggie but many others seem oddly stiff and formal. I also have mixed feelings about the ending. I liked the concept of it but I find the actual behavior of the people at the very end extremely strange.… (mais)
 
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hmonkeyreads | 37 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2024 |
Searing, heartbreaking. And beautiful and ultimately life-affirming.
 
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fmclellan | 10 outras críticas | Jan 23, 2024 |
This was a treat from beginning to end, as Ann Hood wrote about a handful of books that were important to her in her youth. So much of her experience was mine as well, although I figured out from the context that I was about 4 years ahead of her in age, and a couple more in schooling (due to my starting young and skipping a grade along the way). Like Hood, I read Marjorie Morningstar at a young age and loved her; I was intrigued and baffled by what I know now were relatively tame and vague sex scenes in that and other novels; I remember the CBS evening news in the background (although it's Richard C. Hottelet, not Walter Cronkite, who speaks in my mind); I remember Johnny Got His Gun making the rounds of older schoolmates, particularly boys who might be drafted and sent to Viet Nam, although I never read it myself; I used to choose books from the library shelves for their size, because nothing was better than getting lost for days and days in a sprawling 600+ page story that covered two or three generations; I was drawn to books that took place "out there" somewhere, China, or Russia, or Africa, or even California. All of these shared experiences with reading made this is one of the better "books about books" that I have read in a while. Your mileage may vary, if you are of a different age, and these particular books are not part of your history in the same way.
Reviewed in 2017
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laytonwoman3rd | 8 outras críticas | Dec 20, 2023 |

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Obras
41
Also by
16
Membros
5,132
Popularidade
#4,859
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
289
ISBN
235
Línguas
8
Marcado como favorito
5

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