The Language of Flowers in WACKY READING CHALLENGES

Aug 08, 2016 Karen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook

I think this is a really good first effort. Victoria is enough to drive anyone to drink but Vanessa Diffenbaugh has far more experience than I do with the foster care system and the children who come out of it. It doesn't seem all that unbelievable that Victoria would be as seriously disturbed as she is. I listened to the audio version read by Tara Sands and I often wanted to toss the discs out the window like frisbees; Victoria is SO contrary. I do think that one must suspend disbelief througho ...more

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May 28, 2012 Book Concierge rated it really liked it

Shelves: sfe, nature, book-club, library, concierge, strong-women

Victoria Jones was abandoned as an infant. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday she is about to be emancipated from the foster care system she’s lived in all her life. She has limited schooling, no family, no job prospects. What she does have is an ancient Victorian Flower Dictionary, and the knowledge she gained during one important placement when she was nine. She leverages this limited but extraordinary skill into a job as an assistant at a flower shop, and begins – slowly and painfully ...more

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Aug 27, 2012 Connie N. rated it liked it

Shelves: chick-lit, recommended, family

All the way through this book I was totally frustrated and angry with the main character and her poor decisions about her life and the people around her. She seemed to sabotage every relationship she had, to her own detriment. And her attitude about life and herself was always negative, which is never enjoyable to read about. But still the story kept my interest because of her love for flowers and their meanings. She was able to build on that basis alone, developing something that could be salva ...more

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Sep 10, 2013 Debbie (Doc) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2013, around-the-states, romance

I was worried that flowers would overpower the story, and happily it did not. Victoria is 18 years old and becomes emancipated from the foster care system at the beginning of the story. The story flips back and forth between her younger years and when she is older and works as an assistant in a flower shop. The story includes the different meanings of flowers but does not go overboard. I especially liked the glossary of flower meanings in the back of the book.

I definitely don't have a green thu ...more

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