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Mikaela:
Oh, I whole-heartedly second the rec of "Widower for One Year". Even if there's been no update since June I keep checking in the vain hope that there'll eventually be one. The flashbacks are wonderful (and hot) and Ennis's increasing despair and loneliness are sad but amazingly well portrayed, the "everyday life goes on and is never easy" descriptions are so good - though also very bleak....! And I *so* need to know what happens to (grandson) Ennis now, and whether he'll be able to confide in - and emotionally reconnect with - his "pop"!

coffeecat33:
"Nobody's Angel" takes place in the early 1950s, a time when there were no cineplexes, big TVs, remote controls, purple band-aids, beer in cans, and people took baths, not showers. If you ate chocolate cake on a sofa it would stain forever. I don't believe a man would run up to another man in public and say, "I forgot to kiss you!" Mustang cars were not manufactured and introduced until 1964. I know, I know, I'm a petty nit-picker. However, there was something in every chapter that was not correct and it was too distracting to me; I couldn't over look it. I'm glad other people are enjoying her story though.

coffeecat33:

--- Quote from: Mikaela on January 05, 2007, 02:11:19 pm ---Oh, I whole-heartedly second the rec of "Widower for One Year". Even if there's been no update since June I keep checking in the vain hope that there'll eventually be one. The flashbacks are wonderful (and hot) and Ennis's increasing despair and loneliness are sad but amazingly well portrayed, the "everyday life goes on and is never easy" descriptions are so good - though also very bleak....! And I *so* need to know what happens to (grandson) Ennis now, and whether he'll be able to confide in - and emotionally reconnect with - his "pop"!

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You are right on. I agree 100% with your description. Will grandson Ennis meet grandson Jack?? I LOVE the relationship between "Pop" Ennis and his grandson, Ennis.

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a passage that haunts me:

As slaps went it wasn’t much, he’d had worse, given better, his ear stung a little but it was his grandfather. Tears ran with mucus down his throat reminding him disgustingly of chicken soup. He let himself have one sob then brutally stuffed a lid on it. He was twelve and did not cry. All he did was ask. Pop said looks like it’s goin a be a scorcher, do me a favor and get that straw hat, boy, top shelf a the closet and there were two shirts hanging there on the door and it looked like blood on the cuff. All he done was asked, picked up the crusty sleeve, what’s this Pop and felt the blow on the side of his head, the terrible voice, DON’T YOU EVER TOUCH THAT and he took off into the weeds, everything bright and slanty with his tears. from "Widower for One Year" by 271horses

MaineWriter:

--- Quote from: coffeecat33 on January 05, 2007, 02:17:16 pm ---"Nobody's Angel" takes place in the early 1950s, a time when there were no cineplexes, big TVs, remote controls, purple band-aids, beer in cans, and people took baths, not showers. If you ate chocolate cake on a sofa it would stain forever. I don't believe a man would run up to another man in public and say, "I forgot to kiss you!" Mustang cars were not manufactured and introduced until 1964. I know, I know, I'm a petty nit-picker. However, there was something in every chapter that was not correct and it was too distracting to me; I couldn't over look it. I'm glad other people are enjoying her story though.

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I haven't read that story so I am not familiar with it, but these kind of details (or inaccuracies) can drive me bonkers. My story (A Love Born From Steel) takes place in 1976 and I spent alot of time trying to make things accurate to time and place. There is only one thing that is more 2006 than 1976...the description of hospice. And I did that on purpose.

Leslie

one_of_one:
I have a big advantage then with NA in that I'm not American and have no idea what you guys did or didn't have in the 1950's. :)  Which is good because it's my favourite fic. :)  My only real quibble is that the del Mars sometimes have towels instead of inner doors but sometimes have doors; it changes about quite a bit *grin*  But I just love it so much, and love Ennis and his brothers :) .....And Jack, too, of course!

I loved Widower too but the only things I can remember from it now because it's been so long is that Ennis the grandson discovered he was gay when he saw Ty's back in the car and that at the end of the last chapter he was really sad because he'd lost Ty as a friend.  And that Ennis asked him if it was about a girl.  Oh, and the Siesta Motel being demolished.

I so enjoyed Roots, and to be honest I think I'm probably not going to pick up any new fic until it's complete because I have such a bad memory.  The ones I have read as complete, such as Roots, If I Asked and A Love Born from Steel have been a much better read for me solely because I've been able to follow everything, read it more or less all at once and most importantly remember what the heck happens!

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