Posted on October 11, 2011 by Pam B. Cole ALAN’s Picks is a monthly book review column that is compiled and edited by Dr. Pam B. Cole of Kennesaw State University. Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington Viking/Penguin, 2011, 306 pp., $25.95 Family/Death/War ISBN: 987-0-670-02278-6 Fifteen-year-old Alice Bliss has a treasure many teens desire but don’t often experience:… Continue Reading
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Harrington creates a world and cast of characters that grab your heart and don’t let go
Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington by SERENA on OCTOBER 12, 2011 Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington is a coming of age story about a teen girl growing into adulthood at a time when her father, Matt, is sent to Iraq and her mother, Angie, is not dealing with his absence as well as Alice thinks she should. The blissful… Continue Reading
“…a beautifully wrought tale of a young girl growing up in small-town America during our most recent years of craziness and warfare — and all that this does to one family.”
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
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
Heroines of Their Day: London Sunday Times August 7, 2011
Heroines of Their Day Flitting between Lahore and London, in times of war and peace, a host of high-spirited females stride through Elizabeth Buchan’s fiction roundup. Laura Harrington’s Alice Bliss (Picador L12.99/ebook L15.99) is also about fracture, this time of a family. American reservist Matt Bliss has been sent to Iraq, leaving his wife and… 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