Read during October 2011

The Invisible Bridge                    
author:  Julie Orringer                    
finished:  Oct 11      
5

Too long, too many words, not enough highs and lows, a little too blah. This is about Hungary at the time of the beginning of WW2. A poor family, one son wants to be an architect, the other wants to be a doctor. They both get some scholarships to go to school in France and Italy. The architect meets a lovely woman, falls in love. The book circles around their love story. War is hard, bad, unforgiving. Lots of sad things happen.

The Orchard                     
author:  Theresa Weir                             
finished:  Oct 11  
NF  9

She marries a man she hardly knows. The book goes back and forth between the present and the past in telling the story of these apple farmers. The husband has owned the land with his family “forever”. It is an interesting story. The wife is NOT well received by his family. She really doesn’t have family. It is a hard existence but they learn to know and love each other.