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Chargement... The Parting (2007)par Beverly Lewis
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 56159 Perhaps I've read too many of Lewis's books or too much Amish fiction. I feel like they are starting to get repetitive. Most feature the "running around" period granted to most Amish teens before they make the decision to join the church. Most feature a young courting couple. In this case it is Nellie Mae Fisher and Caleb Yoder. This is the first book in the series (according to this site anyway) but I feel like I missed something that came before it because Suzy's death is referred to so often. There are two schisms that seem to be brewing. One between a group that wants certain farming equipment such as tractors to be approved by the bishop (the bishop is not so inclined) and another group that wants to study the entire Bible not just the parts that the church leadership sanctions. This second group reminds me more of Christianity. I guess I never realized that the Amish were not permitted to read or study the entire Bible. Then again, each community has its own rules so that may only be true of this particular one that Lewis is writing about. It's hard to tell. I guess I also never realized that the Amish believe that if you died before you joined the church you weren't saved. I wonder if they have an age limit for that? If a newborn dies, is there a way you could claim that it would have understood enough about the church to be able to join? Does that mean the newborn is forever separated from whatever afterlife the Amish believe in? (Suzy was a teen so it could be argued that she had the intellectual capacity to understand what she needed to choose between.) Again, this may be a belief particular to only certain Amish communities. I can't say. I half expected things to happen that did or didn't: *I expected there to be trouble between Caleb and Nellie--there is though not as severely as I'd thought there might be. *I expected there to be some problem with Kate giving Rosanna the babies--that Kate or her husband would change their minds because it was twins or because one was a boy--or that Kate would miscarry--or that Kate would die and her husband wouldn't be willing to give up the last children he'd have with her. So far, none of that seems to have happened, but there are two more books in the series, so we'll see. I do intend to read the next book or two in the series because they are on my list of "want to read" books--yes, I'm only up to ones I wrote down around 2007 or so so far.
The Parting is the first book in The Coutship of Nellie Fisher series. Beverly Lewis really has a way of drawing you in to the story. This book is set in a Pennsylvania Amish community. Amish teen Nellie Mae Fisher and her family are grieving the tragic loss of Nellie's sister Suzy. There are so many unanswered questions about what Suzy was up to the last months before her drowning. Suzy's private thoughts were kept in her journal which she made Nellie Mae promise to destroy if anything ever happened to her. Did Nellie Mae destroy it after her sister's death? If not will she read it? What things could possibly be uncovered in that journal? Beverly Lewis has a way of weaving this story to keep you intrigued and guessing up until the end. Nellie Mae has her own little bakery which helps the family with income and she has a beau, Caleb Yoder. Things seem to be looking up for Nellie and she even sees wedding bells in her future. Just as everything seems to be going perfectly, change seems to be coming to this small community. This change threatens to break up families and come between Nellie's newfound love. Nellie's own father begins reading scripture which is forbidden and learns of salvation and what it means to have a real relationship with God. (I loved the development of this and how passionate some of the characters got about their newfound salvation.) Other characters are introduced in this book such as Rhoda and Nan who are Nellie's other sisters. Rhoda works for "Englishers" as a housekeeper and Nan is dealing with the end of a serious realationship. One of my favorite characters is Rosanna King, a friend of Nellie's, who is unable to have children of her own. Her cousin Kate offers to give her next baby to Rosanna to raise as her own. These characters are set up beautifully and you finish the book wanting more. An excellent read and a must for any Beverly Lewis or Amish fiction fans! Appartient à la sérieEst contenu dans
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