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I've been a homeschooling mom for over 6 years now. After using Concerned Communication's A Reason For Writing since the beginning, we stumble on A Reason For Spelling this year. I was tired of "boring" spelling curriculumns, so figured we'd spend the extra $$$ and give this a try. Well, we ALL love it (we're using levels A, C and E for our 1st, 3rd and 5th graders). There is a lot of activities packed into these pages, and you can pretty much pick and choose how much of it you want to do. There are reproducibles in the teachers manuals of additional activities. I'm thinking of using it again next year with all the activities, and I should be able to turn it into our full Language Arts program. One word of warning, DON'T try to use this without the teachers manual, you will be LOST! I find the teacher's manual invaluable!

I've been a homeschooling mom for over 6 years now. After using Concerned Communication's A Reason For Writing since the beginning, we stumble on A Reason For Spelling this year. I was tired of "boring" spelling curriculumns, so figured we'd ...give this a try. Well, we ALL love it (we're using levels A, C and E for our 1st, 3rd and 5th graders). There is a lot of activities packed into these pages, and you can pretty much pick and choose how much of it you want to do. There are reproducibles in the teachers manuals of additional activities. I'm thinking of using it again next year with all the activities, and I should be able to turn it into our full Language Arts program. One word of warning, DON'T try to use this without the teachers manual, you will be LOST! I find the teacher's manual invaluable!

The prologue of this book takes place in St. Cloud, MN on Prom night, 1976. Then the authors fast forward to the Christmas Season, 1988 and slowly, in multi-layered character exposition "like time through an hour glass," tell the reader what everyone has been up to in the intervening years.

Like Stephen King's Carrie, it observes high school foibles: "You've been away too long, Charlie. I'll tell you something. There is no life after high school. Not in this town. The grown up world is just high school with money." That statement rings true. Those who remain in town appear to be locked in a sort of "time warp." They maintain the harsh high school cliqued pecking order in which they were, and are, mired and "pigeon hole" returnees in their long-ago station.

I found myself wondering if I had been mistaken about the genre as I was reading the first part of the book. The dead body at the center of the who-dun-it murder mystery doesn't even appear until page 167 of this 300 page work. So, for the first half of the book, the story is soap operatic a la "As St. Cloud Turns" - but that could be anticipated in a book co-authored by Judith Guest, who also penned "Ordinary People." The unsympathetic mother character played by Mary Tyler Moore in the Robert Redford movie of that book has aged a bit and now appears as a mother/grandmother in St. Cloud.

Remember old-fashioned roller coasters? When the ride starts and your car is slowly being hauled up the first incline from whence centrifugal force and gravity take over? That's what the first part of this book feels like. Once "up top" it's time to "Hang on folks, we're in for a bumpy ride." When this book gets going, it is intriguing.

I don't understand why sequels to brilliant novels are written long after the original author's death. They all fail miserably, yet continue to get published. Mrs. DeWinter might very well be the worst of the lot, with no character development, no plot, and absolutely NO point. Nothing is resolved, except the solution of who burned down Manderley, which was better left unknown. Susan Hill rambles on and on about nothing. The book is extremely boring and way OVERLONG and took me weeks to finish. I was so glad to finally be able to put the book away. Fans of Rebecca should not waste their time reading this garbage. Nothing in the book makes sense, from the narrarator's actions to Mrs. Danvers living down the street, to why Maxim has become so annoying and childish. The last page is the only decent one in the book. Save your time and money, this book was better left never being written.

The novel, Mrs. De Winter, was a very good effort on trying to copy Daphne Du Murier's origional story, Rebecca, but failed as far as character developement and style. Susan Hill is a very good writer as a general rule, however, I did not like the sudden change in character. Suddenly, Maxim De Winter becomes rude and arrogant and once in the novel, the narrator (who remains unnamed in this as well) suddenly comes out of her shy coma to reveal a pillar of power to Mrs. Danvers. It is only shown once in the entire novel and just doesn't fit. Also, Susan Miller has tried to recreate the feel of the thirties, but the plot is changed so much with the De Winters buying a new house. Finally, the book was very predictable with coincidences. This made the story very boring to read because you always seemed to know that when Mr. or Mrs. De Winter finally get settled again, something terrible happens. If Miller had written this as a seperate novel from Rebecca, it would have been much better.

"Mrs. De Winter" was so much better than "Rebecca," in my opinion. I found the writing in "Rebecca" very dreary and long, while "Mrs. De Winter" was more upbeat, in a monotone sort of way. The plot is not a thick one, but just sums up the life the de Winter's led after the incidents at Manderly. The ending is rather abrupt, but yet, not uncalled for. I really don't understand why people did not appreciate this book. Hill did a very good job continuing where du Maurier left off. I recommend.