Sing Me a Story, Tell Me a Song (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This is a compilation of four short stories: Ride, Run, La Vie en Rose, and Barton Hollow. Each story is named for a song, and incorporates elements of the song into the story. “Run”— Air This flash-fiction piece is a brief look into the life of a couple, and the tensions between the people who long for change and the people who run from it.“Ride” — Lana Del Ray In this story, a teenage runaway has been abandoned at a gas station by her hot-headed boyfriend. When she gets blamed for a robbery actually committed by a group of car-stealing boys, she gets help from an unexpected place.“La Vie en Rose”— Edith Piaf A woman wakes up discouraged with her life and decides that her unemployed, poetic-but-impractical boyfriend needs to move out. By the time she returns home from work, though, she’s changed her mind and her perspective on life.“Barton Hollow” — The Civil Wars After six years away, Claire is summoned to return to the Grey estate— the place where she was raised as a servant and treated as a burden. When the lawyer who demanded her presence reads the will of the late Grey patriarch, it’s revealed that Claire was his illegitimate daughter, and that he has left the entire family fortune to her. Now Claire is faced with a choice—stay at the estate with the hated Greys and all their ghosts and secrets, or give up the money forever and go back to her life of freedom and debt.