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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780842334983
ISBN number: 084233498X
Label: Tyndale House Publishing houses
Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishing houses
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: January 10, 2004
Publishing house: Tyndale House Publishing houses
Sale Popularity Level: 6266
Studio: Tyndale House Publishing houses
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Award-winning author Francine Rivers opens a world full of vibrant characters with a powerful story of hope. In this stunning novel, Francine explores the new life that love can bring to a decaying garden of broken relationships. Through the lives of 84-year-old Leota, her granddaughter, and a college student with all the answers, Francine leads readers to ponder the value of life and truth in a way that only she can.
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Acclaimed Christian fiction writer Francine Rivers's (The Atonement Child) Leota's Garden uses the image of the garden as a metaphor for the cycles of life that the characters experience. While the story revolves around a number of lives, they are all connected through Leota--an 84-year-old grandmother--and her garden, which was once a place of beauty and hope but has in recent years gone to ruin. Beginning in desolation--Leota has been neglected by her self-centered daughter, whose obsession with getting her own daughter into the best college has driven them apart--the novel slowly shows the weaving together of lives in the mysterious ways of grace: a proud and narrow-minded college student ends up learning more from Leota than he'd bargained for, and the granddaughter Leota had never been allowed to know shows up looking for some answers, and even more, looking for Leota herself. A garden blooms, the novel suggests, by getting one's hands a little dirty doing the hard work of love. --Doug Thorpe
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Leota's Garden was a sweet story that revolves around Leota's Garden. The story is about a 84 year old neglected woman whose garden is neglected as her. She calls for help. A volunteer who is a college student learns more from Leota than he thought he would when he started volunteering to do a survey for a class. After being estranged from her family for many years her Granddaughter shows up and loves the garden as much as Leota does. Leota uses the garden to teach life lessons to the whole family and the college student that becomes more than a volunteer, in her life. I thought the plot was rather slow. I was disappointed in this book after reading so many others of Francine Rivers.
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Rivers has a gift, no doubt about it. But this story did not affect me as most of the others I have read.
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I was glued to this book for the two days it took me to read it so
you can imagine my utter shock and frustration when the book took a
twist turn at the end concerning Leota and a medical technician.
It was so unnecessary. It would have been nice for Leota and her daughter to reconcile or at LEAST die a normal peaceful death. I was very disappointed but overall enjoyed the dialogue throughout the book.
The Halloweeen "skit" was too drawn out for my liking but Leota was such dear I read to find out more and more about her sweet self. Other parts of the book caused me to raise my eybrows... How "predicatble" that the grey kids would have an absentee father who was probably "in jail." There were enough odd placed comments concerning race to make me squirm in my seat but I suppose that was the author's intent. Bottom line is this was a good book but I probably wouldn't recommend it. The "feud" between mother (Leota) and daughter (Nora) seemed entirely overblown. And Annie was too perfect to be true. It was a pleasant book and this is Just my two cents.
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Leota's Garden
I absolutely loved this book! I can't wait to read other books by Francine Rivers now. It was just the neatest portraial of a granddaughter's love for her grandmother.
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Francine Rivers is an amazing writer. For those who have not, you must read
Redeeming Love and the Mark of the Lion series. That said, Leota' Garden did disappoint. I agree that it was unbelievably slow (I contemplated stopping prior to completion) and quite redundant. But, I'll give Francine Rivers a break...not every book can be a masterpiece.
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