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    Maude

    Written by Donna Mabry

    Narrated by Shana Gagnon

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    About this audiobook

    In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She said, "You’ve always been a good girl, Maude, and done what I told you. Now, you’re going to be a married woman, and he will be the head of the house. When you go home tonight after your party, no matter what he wants to do to you, you have to let him do it. Do you understand?" I didn’t understand, but I nodded my head anyway. It sounded strange to me, the way so many things did. I would do what she told me. I didn’t have a choice, any more than I had a choice in being born.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJun 23, 2015
    ISBN9781681412016
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    Maude
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    Donna Mabry

    A Michigan native who studied writing in school, Donna first came to Vegas to make costumes and soon was weaving the stories she heard in the back of the girl's dressing room into her first novel. Now she is the author of the Alexandra Merritt Mysteries, which include The Last Two Aces in Las Vegas, The Las Vegas Desert Flower, The Las Vegas Special, Rough Ride in Vegas, M.I.A. Las Vegas, and Lost Luggage.

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    • 4/5
      Maude, an only slightly fictionalized biography, according to author Donna Foley Mabry, is a compelling read. It is the biography of the author's grandmother, written as though she, grandmother Maude, were telling it. It covers Maude's childhood at the turn of the 19th century in western Tennessee, and follows her life through marriage, raising children, the depression, and many tragedies. Mabry's style of writing is conversational, as though the reader is sitting with the narrator having a conversation over a cup of coffee. I was quickly drawn in and eager to learn what would come next. Mabry did an excellent job of rounding out the story's characters and presenting them as relatable and easily imagined. I quite enjoyed following the lives of Maude and her friends and relatives. Unfortunately, the book has considerable formatting, grammatical and typographical errors, as well as inconsistencies with things like dates and ages. It's difficult for me to take a book seriously when having to wade through these kinds of distractions. Fortunately, the story of Maude was more interesting than the errors were distracting. Also, overall, Mabry writes well and this goes a lon way toward canceling out errors. It's unfortunate that she did not (or was unable to) have a commercial house publish her story. I suspect it would have been a more satisfying read with the editing and polishing a professional house could offer.
    • 5/5
      Love the characters

      So wanted Maude to stand up for herself more though. Can't wait to read another by this author soon. Angela
    • 4/5
      I loved this book. Thank you Donna for telling your grandmothers story. I have heard from others stories of the Great Depression. My family was fortunate, both of my parents were the youngest of eight children. So they did not experience the great depression first hand. At times the story was heart wrenching and sad, but that was life for Maude and many others back then. Donna did a wonderful job telling her grandmothers story and bringing her to life on the pages of this great book.
    • 4/5
      Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
      -Ian Maclaren
      The quote by Maclaren kept ringing in my mind as I was reading Maude, and days later, she is still on my mind.

      Maude is a heartbreakingly beautiful story about a young woman's life. Married at 14, a widow at 16, and willing to do anything necessary for her family. Her story had me going through an emotional rollercoaster wondering, "What could possibly happen next?"

      Donna Mabry artistically tells the story of her grandmother's life in a way that had me on the edge of my seat and reading late into the night. We always understand how difficult it was to be a woman in the 1900s, but "hearing" the story of one woman's life makes it all the more realistic and relatable.

      Maude left me with the book hangover I love to hate and hate to love.

      For more of my thoughts on Maude visit: Under Literary Construction: Maude: A Review.
    • 3/5
      Interesting and sad, but probably very typical for the time
    • 5/5
      Amazing story. I was spellbound. Can't praise this book enough. The narrator did an excellent job with Donna Mabry's spectacular biography.
    • 5/5
      This is my family! Someone took dad, mom, Grandma Lizzie, Pop, and the rest of my family and wrote about them. I saw Aunt Florie and Uncle Bob in Maude and Jimmy. I saw Grandma Lizzie's marriage to Pop in Maude and George. I saw dad in the character of Bud. It was a great read.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed reading this book as I found it to echo the lives of my grandparents. Although, they did not have the meanness nor the drinking involved. It was not an easy book to read, as it evoked emotion and heartfelt sorrow for Maude, who struggled so much to be a good person, a good wife, a good mother/grandmother. I adored Maude when I finished the book. Nothing in this time could be as horrific as some of the things she faced, and this was apparently based on the facts of her life.
    • 4/5
      A remarkable story of one woman's life, from the early half of the 20th century. I was pleasantly surprised with the vivid writing, and drawn into the story from start to finish. What a remarkable woman, what a heartbreaking life, and how wonderful that the author was able to capture her grandmother's voice in such a way! Definitely recommend.One a side note, I was fascinated by how women gave birth a hundred years ago, that women--neighbours and family--just helped each other and called the doctor in only when there was an emergency. It's great for healthy births, but I must say thank goodness women (at least in the more industrialized countries) can have access to emergency medical care (and epidurals :p). And also thank goodness for stricter driving and drinking laws...
    • 5/5
      I loved this and couldn't put it down until finished! Although sad, it is a woman's honest story who lived through some VERY hard times. I cried and laughed my way through this book and was disappointed to reach the ending.
    • 5/5
      I didn't realize, until the end of this book, that this was a story about the life of the author's Grandmother, Maude. The book is told in first person, with Maude taking you through her life from the time she is a young girl, at the turn of the 20th Century, through marriage, children, deaths, wars and The Great Depression. This was a true page-turner for me and I truly loved this book.