Dear Reader, Mary OConnell
Dear Reader, Mary OConnell
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Dear Reader
A Novel

Author: Mary O'Connell

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Unabridged: 8 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/09/2017


Synopsis

Gilmore Girls meets Wuthering Heights in Mary O'Connell's Dear Reader, a whip-smart, poignant, modern-day take on Emily Brontë’s classic novel.

For seventeen-year-old Flannery Fields, the only respite from the plaid-skirted mean girls at Sacred Heart High School is her beloved teacher Miss Sweeney’s AP English class. But when Miss Sweeney doesn't show up to teach Flannery's favorite book, Wuthering Heights, leaving behind her purse, Flannery knows something is wrong.

The police are called, and Flannery gives them everything—except Miss Sweeney's copy of Wuthering Heights. This she holds onto. And good thing she does, because when she opens it, it has somehow transformed into Miss Sweeney's real-time diary. It seems Miss Sweeney is in New York City—and she's in trouble.

So Flannery does something very unFlannery-like: she skips school and sets out for Manhattan, with the book as her guide. But as soon as she arrives, she meets a boy named Heath. Heath is British, on a gap year, incredibly smart—yet he's never heard of Albert Einstein or Anne Frank. In fact, Flannery can't help thinking that he seems to have stepped from the pages of Brontë's novel. Could it be?

About Mary O'Connell

MARY O'CONNELL is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the author of the short story collection, Living With Saints, and the YA novel, The Sharp Time. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in several literary magazines, and she is the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship and a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She lives with her husband and her three children in Lawrence, Kansas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on December 11, 2020

Readers are a special type. We're drawn to spending hours between the covers of a book when the world tells us there are more important and more exciting things to do. But readers know that there is nothing more important or more exciting than the story which is waiting on the page to come alive in......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu on October 21, 2021

Teza principală a cărții e că viața e minunată și că merită trăită din plin. În primul rînd, fiindcă Dumnezeu ne-a dat putința și obiceiul de a citi. A doua teză e că putem citi - fără nici o remușcare și în deplină libertate - absolut orice. Faptul că există cărți bune și cărți proaste nu prea conte......more

Goodreads review by Katie on November 17, 2022

I think this may be one of my favourite non-fiction books ever.......more

Goodreads review by Sara on July 14, 2020

ARC received in exchange for an honest review. 'Reading has saved my life, again and again, and has held my hand through every difficult time' This really is the ultimate book for book lovers. Cathy Rentzenbrink takes the reader down a rabbit hole of books from childhood to motherhood and loss, recomm......more

Goodreads review by Avani ✨ on August 25, 2021

I really enjoyed reading this. It took me down the memory lane for some books. :)......more