Alice Bliss is a typical teenager. She is 13, lives with her parents and sometimes annoying younger sister, has a best friend with whom she shares everything, and is noticing boys for the first time. However, there is little in her life that seems normal these days. When her dad gets called up to active… Continue Reading
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A highly accomplished debut novel about family, love, loss, grief and growing up
From Carola Huttman @ Bookmunch.wordpress.com August 28, 2011 I can’t remember the last time a novel made me cry. Indeed, I’m not sure any book ever moved me to tears until now. From the very first sentence I was drawn into the complicated world of fifteen-year old Alice Bliss. Beneath her slightly gruff tomboyish adolescent… Continue Reading
A beautiful, poignant, and engaging story that you don’t want to miss
Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington Reviewed by Amy @ The House of Seven Tails Genre: Contemporary Fiction Rating: 4.5 out of 5 My Thoughts: I read a few reviews of Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington and thought it sounded like an interesting book with a young adult main character. I came across a post on… Continue Reading
Alice Bliss is so tender and such a raw story of growing up amidst war that I have a new appreciation for the loved ones left behind.
Review: Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington [ 7 ]August 8, 2011 | Vera Reviewed by Colleen Turner Alice Bliss is in many ways a typical fifteen year old: she argues with her mother, tries hard to take care of her little, precocious sister and is a daddy’s girl of the highest caliber. She has spent her… Continue Reading
“This book captivated my heart …”
Alice Bliss – My second book review by Nicole @ Marine Wife Unplugged @ http://marinewifeunplugged.blogspot.com/2011/06/alice-bliss-my-second-book-review.html I may as well write while the emotions presented in Laura Harrington’s novel, Alice Bliss, are still raw in my mind. I only put the book down about 10 minutes ago, and I’m still drawn speechless, but if I wait longer… Continue Reading
“A glimpse of the other side of war that the public eye rarely sees.”
June 7, 2011 Posted by Wife on the Rollercoaster @ www.ridingtherollercoaster.com When I first started reading Alice Bliss, a novel by Laura Harrington about a teenage girl coping with her father’s deployment to Iraq, I had no intention of getting overly emotional. I’ve lived through my husband’s deployments. I’ve lived vicariously through friends’ deployments. I’ve read military spouse memoirs… Continue Reading
“These characters were so well drawn, they were part of the one percent like me.”
Meet the Bliss Family – book review MAY 11, 2011 by libarmywife from Left Face – The Other Milspouse Blog www.leftface.wordpress.com I’ve been asked to review a few books, all military family related. I’ve read some really good ones and some absolutely awful ones. This one, this one is one of the really good ones. The… Continue Reading
“I loved this book the way I loved To Kill A Mockingbird…”
By Charlotte Gordon June 5, 2011 Move over, Scout. Meet smart, plucky, funny Alice Bliss. Her dad has gone to Iraq and she is left home with her mom and little sister and somehow has to go on living. She has her first kiss, learns to drive, goes to dances, plants a vegetable garden —… Continue Reading
“This is one of those books that changes your life forever …”
By Danielle Smith @ ChicklitReviews July 1, 2011 5 out of 5 stars For Alice Bliss fifteen was supposed to be a time of firsts; first driving lesson, first date, first kiss and on and on. More importantly though, this was a time of firsts she was supposed to be sharing with her father, but… Continue Reading
“It’s a very fine book, and if rips your heart out, that’s not a bad thing.”
By JESSE KORNBLUTH Published: Jun 16, 2011 Category: Fiction Tell me you wouldn’t react as I did. The name of the novel is “Alice Bliss.” That is, not surprisingly, the name of the 14-year-old main character, who lives with her parents and younger sister in a lovely town in upstate New York. And then, just before the… Continue Reading