Sea Glass

I almost passed on this book when I found it at a thrift store. The book's plot looked promising and I wasn't disappointed. My favorite quaote from the book: "The only problem with looking for sea glass", Sexton says one day when he and Honora are walking along the beach, "is that you never look up.......more

I liked this book because it draws you in—you care about the characters. And it also gives insight into a tragic part of our country’s history—the Great Depression of the 1920’s. I liked that she used sea glass as a metaphor for the human spirit. No matter how much it is battered by the rough sea,......more

I didn't expect terribly much from this book, but I felt the need to read it because, well, someone gave me a copy and it's party about the labor movement during the Depression in a textile mill town. So I had no choice. I wish it were a better book. It's nice summer reading, if you're not part of th......more

Set in the early depression era somewhere on the East Coast, the novel follows Honora and Sexton Beecher from the beginning of their marriage. They moved into a large deserted old house on the beach and threw themselves into making it habitable with mostly sweat equity and little money. Sexton is aw......more

This book is the reason that whenever I walk on the beach, I am walking stooped along the shore, searching for little bits of beach glass in the sand. So far I have collected two bowlfuls. I don't have a big white platter like Honora does in this book, but a bowl full of beach glass is very satisfyi......more