tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939144455618519194.post7141391921184200554..comments2023-08-18T08:42:14.776-06:00Comments on Book Light Graveyard: Review: Playing Beatie BowKaren L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15308879061927532232noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939144455618519194.post-87051627995361523342014-09-03T14:10:41.920-06:002014-09-03T14:10:41.920-06:00I don't remember reading this one but I do rem...I don't remember reading this one but I do remember watching the film version where Abigail is much older than 14 and I think Judah was engaged? It was really strange. I don't remember liking Abigail very much either.Lanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00002224549199474383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939144455618519194.post-5446560301271207962014-09-03T07:53:02.854-06:002014-09-03T07:53:02.854-06:00... with bloodsuckers several times their age who ...... with bloodsuckers several times their age who somehow don't have the attitudes of men of their own era. It was written long before teens started devouring books about girls who saved the word and had two guys in love with them. It's not as large and exciting, but it will probably last a lot longer. :-)Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939144455618519194.post-59900186651003582642014-09-03T07:48:47.944-06:002014-09-03T07:48:47.944-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939144455618519194.post-19939173301274888992014-09-03T07:47:49.118-06:002014-09-03T07:47:49.118-06:00...for you. But it's about more than the Gift.......for you. But it's about more than the Gift. It's about Abigail. She leaves modern Sydney feeling resentful about her mother's wish to take back the husband/father who had left them. She doesn't understand about love, until she falls in love herself - and has to lose him. She returns to her own time a much better person. THAT's what it's about.<br /><br />It was written quite a while ago, before the kind of YA fiction in which girls fall in loveSue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939144455618519194.post-18220450180386486192014-09-03T07:43:04.371-06:002014-09-03T07:43:04.371-06:00Okay,start again.I can't fix typos on your pag...Okay,start again.I can't fix typos on your page.I liked that this novel is about ordinary people - and for this particular family, it IS important that the Gift be saved. If you prefer novels in which a character saves the world, perhaps this novel isn'tSue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939144455618519194.post-62209441401861511452014-09-03T07:38:55.319-06:002014-09-03T07:38:55.319-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com