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Illumination Night
Illumination Night: A Novel | Alice Hoffman
An exquisitely crafted ensemble piece about marriage, identity, and desire set on the island of Marthas Vineyard In Chilmark, a grandmother imagines she can fly. A reclusive giant feels an immediate kinship with a boy who cannot grow. A wife who never used to worry is overwhelmed by debilitating fears. And a husband who prefers to be alone is drawn to a reckless teenage girl with the power to ruin his life. Over the course of one fateful year, these characters, as vividly drawn and expertly choreographed as any in contemporary fiction, will come together and drift apart as they experience breakthroughs, true love, and epiphanies. Alice Hoffman finds mystery and magic in our everyday world, and Illumination Night showcases her signature talent for endowing real life with the power of myth. It is one of her finest novels, radiant and emotional with a cast of characters you will never forget.
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MidnightBookGirl
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It's #FriYayIntro time! @howjessreads

1. I love the soundtrack and parts of the film, but I don't enjoy Will Ferrell in Elf. I know, unpopular opinion!
2. Morning, but I'm considering switching to nights.
3. Lorene (pronounced Loreena).
4. Working at the bookstore all weekend. Tonight is downtown's Grand Illumination and we pass out cider and cookies. It's basically like working as an extra in a Hallmark Christmas movie.

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Do you enjoy Will Ferrell in other movies? 6y
MidnightBookGirl @thegirlwiththelibrarybag Nope. I don't dig his sense of humor. I can enjoy one of his movies if I'm in the right mood, but I'm not a fan. 6y
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @MidnightBookGirl, I always get sucked in by the trailers for his movies but it‘s never really been a good fit for me. I do enjoy Elf tho. (edited) 6y
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ericarobynreads Elf has begun to irk me... I used to love it, but now I try to avoid it. 6y
TheWordJar Your night sounds magical! 💕 6y
robinb 4-sounds like a festive night! ❤️💚❤️💚 6y
GlassAsDiamonds Also not a Will Ferrell fan... so yeah, Elf is up there for me as well. 6y
kimmypete1 I don‘t hate Elf, but it‘s definitely not my favorite. 6y
CouronneDhiver Ugh. Elf is the worst 6y
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deanslist

I think I'm reading this mostly for the setting and the prose. Only Elizabeth has intrigued me so far. Simon is continually off-putting because no four-year-old is that precocious in thought process.

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VampireMackdaddy

She thinks of her empathy as a flaw.

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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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Why it pays to follow your favorite authors on FB. Although Littens also fill everyone in on good deals too! 📚❤️

MemoirsForMe I just read that Alice Hoffman is doing a book signing in November in southern Calif. If anyone lives around that area. 8y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @UwannaPublishme I wish I lived near there! 8y
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CherylDeFranceschi
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#TBT 20 years ago today when I was reading Alice Hoffman and then went on a huge Nick Bantok binge.

LauraBeth I was as well 😀 8y
LeahBergen This is such a cool idea - I should look back in my book journal to see what I was reading, too! 8y
KVanRead I was reading those too! They were so much fun. 8y
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MrBook How do you all have such great penmanship? Mine looks like chicken scratch *sighs*. 8y
Chelsey I wish I'd been keeping track all this time. That's awesome! 8y
marixa I really like Nick Bantok 8y
CherylDeFranceschi @LauraBeth They were so magical! 8y
CherylDeFranceschi @MrBook 😂I stopped writing in cursive, mostly,because my father would tease me about how girly it looked. 8y
PurpleyPumpkin Griffin & Sabine are waiting for me... 8y
TheLondonBookworm You have excellent record keeping skills!! I wish I was that good 😂 8y
kspenmoll Wish I had kept records- thats why Litsy makes it easy! 8y
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rlund

'Who can believe that nothing remains? Who does not strain to see the tiny fragments of a life that refused to be extinguished?'