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The Way the Crow Flies
The Way the Crow Flies | Ann-Marie MacDonald
The sun came out after the war and our world went Technicolor. Everyone had the same idea. Lets get married. Lets have kids. Lets be the ones who do it right. The Way the Crow Flies, the second novel by bestselling, award-winning author Ann-Marie MacDonald, is set on the Royal Canadian Air Force station of Centralia during the early sixties. It is a time of optimism--infused with the excitement of the space race but overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War--filtered through the rich imagination and quick humour of eight-year-old Madeleine McCarthy and the idealism of her father, Jack, a career officer. Ann-Marie MacDonald said in a discussion with Oprah Winfrey about her first book, a happy ending is when someone can walk out of the rubble and tell the story. Madeleine achieves her childhood dream of becoming a comedian, yet twenty years later she realises she cannot rest until she has renewed the quest for the truth, and confirmed how and why the child was murdered.. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called The Way the Crow Flies absorbing, psychologically richa chronicle of innocence betrayed. With compassion and intelligence, and an unerring eye for the absurd as well as the confusions of childhood, , MacDonald evokes the confusion of being human and the necessity of coming to terms with our imperfections.
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Tkimsal
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30 Book Recommendations in 30 Days — Day 27 “The Way the Crow Flies,” by Ann-Marie MacDonald

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Peaceful_Reader
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Wow! 810 pages of descriptive and beautiful writing. This is a thought-provoking story filled with twists and turns and a surprise ending. Set in Canada during the 1960‘s-70‘s Jack and Mimi are in love with life, themselves, and their two young children Mike and Madeleine. Things start to unravel when Jack takes on a secret mission from an old friend. 💙💙💙

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jamielaine
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csimmer23
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I love this book and it would be a great pick for any book club. #riotgrams

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Read66
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A strong story and an author that I do admire - this one, however needed some more editing. It was a struggle to get through the long introductory set up to where the meat of the actual story is. That being said, I did like the ending a lot - just took me too long to get there.

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cplaczek
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This book had so many elements. It is set during the cold war at a military base in Canada. There is a murder and a military secret and abuse that you would never guess would affect each other, but they do. It is a story about how far families will go to protect each other. Great read!

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Freefallinmissy
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I've been Reading this book slowly over the course of a few months and I feel like it has become my friend :-) don't want it to end but also want to know what happens !

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PurpleyPumpkin
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Canadian #LGBTQauthors #day2 #junebookbugs 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

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Read66
The Way the Crow Flies | Ann-Marie MacDonald

There are some stories you can never hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them - but you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

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TheKidUpstairs
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Two books I loved, two covers I hated. I need to replace my copy of White Teeth with a non-adaptation cover. And I've mentioned The Way the Crow Flies before, it languished unread on my shelf for years because the cover was so blah.
#goodbookbadcover #aprilbookshowers
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MayJasper No no no to both covers 8y
TheKidUpstairs @Mayjasper I know, right? But such great books, it's a shame. 8y
Born.A.Reader I just found Crow in my little free library! It looks really good -although my cover is different than yours. ☺☺ 8y
LeahBergen I loved both of these, too (and don't like those covers! 😬) 8y
Hooked_on_books Wow, that White Teeth cover is so bad! 8y
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Freefallinmissy
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Time for a new book! This looks like a good one !

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RealLifeReading
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#marchintoreading day 12: #bookishpetpeeves

To be honest I have so many to cite! Like people who underline and highlight library books!! Torn pages in library picture books! Missing cover art from ebooks! And I especially cannot stand stickers that aren't stickers like this "Today's Book Club" that is printed on the cover. At least with a sticker there is still a chance (slim may it be) of removal. But I can't get rid of this one!! Sigh..

Bookzombie I also don't like the P.S. in the bottom corner. I have seen it a lot recently. Put it on the back please! 8y
PurpleyPumpkin Non-removable stickers are the worst, ugh!😠 8y
Moray_Reads @Bookzombie I hate the PS too. And not just the corner thing, I can think of my own questions to ask while I read, thank you! 8y
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Smrloomis @Moray_Reads @Bookzombie totally agree 👎🏽 8y
moranadatter @PurpleyPumpkin I completely agree. 8y
Sydsavvy lol this is funny! 😂😂😂 8y
BeckyWithTheGoodBooks I agree with this so much. I LOVED this title though. 8y
Coleen I loved this book! 8y
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TheKidUpstairs
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Let me start by saying I LOVE Ann-Marie MacDonald. I picked this one up shortly after I devoured Fall On Your Knees, but then I just couldn't bring myself to read it. Totally #judgedbyitscover Something about the colour and the texture just bored me. It sat on my TBR for close to ten years before I picked it up last summer. I loved it, of course.
#dontjudgeabookbyitscover #marchintoreading @RealLifeReading

RealLifeReading Fall on your knees was so good but I've yet to read any of her other books! But you're right about this cover it's very 😴😴 8y
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Jessica_Jean
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One of my all-time favorite books! #Thewaythecrowflies #canadianfiction #solidchoice #love

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WanderingBookaneer
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BarbaraJean Oh, Bee Season!! I'd forgotten about that one! Good, but quirky. And I loved The Historian... but I don't associate it with being published in the 2000s, since I read it later! 8y
ErikasMindfulShelf The Historian is great!! 8y
dylanisreading @irre I second that! I'm thinking of rereading it this year. 8y
Cortg Loving Frank has an amazing ending...that actually happened in real life 😬 8y
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bookishkai
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Canada Day Fun Friday photo. Beautiful, painful, a combination of innocence and cynicism. Outside of growing up watching the original Degrassi Junior High, my first real immersion into life in Canada.

Liberty She is on my list of authors I still need to read! 8y
mllemay This is one of my favorite novels of all time! 8y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders Ann Marie MacDonald = A Must Read! (Except maybe Adult Onset) 😋 8y
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Bibliogeekery I love this book! So haunting! I agree with @Penny_LiteraryHoarders completely -Adult Onset wasn't as good as her other writing. 8y
Ange44 I loved this book so much! I agree about Adult Onset, though. I was excited when it came but was pretty disappointed in it. 8y
shawnmooney I loved this novel so much! Apparently, nothing that came after is worth reading, but this one is fantastic! 8y
bookishkai I didn't even bother with Adult Onset; it didn't seem like it would pack much of a punch compared to this one. 8y
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