Clair de Lune: Library Edition

from Angelina-Justice

There are countless stories about male professors and young impressionable girls that fall for them. In this book it is the impressionable female teacher, who falls in with two of her male students. And then goes a step further and falls in love with one of them.The feminism is striking on two le...

from tloeffler

It's 1941, and Allen Liles is beginning her first teaching job at a junior college in a small southwest Missouri town. She has dreams of going to New York, but for now, this is where she's at. She's twenty-five, and a bit of a free spirit, and this leads her, in innocence, to put her job and enti...

from jo-jo

This book started out a little slow for me, but I am so glad that I stuck it out as I found a new love and appreciation for the characters as the story developed. Young Allen isn't sure what to do with her life, but knowing that she needs to find a job to satisfy her debts, she lets her mother ta...

from whitreidtan

Appearances, propriety, morality, and the restrictions placed on women. Although Jetta Carleton wrote Clair de Lune in another era, the issues of acceptibility, expectations, and obligations still dog us today. Set in 1941 during the spring before Pearl Harbor when there was still some hope that ...

from Donna828

I really, really wanted to love this book instead of merely liking it. It is set in my neck of the woods of Southwest Missouri and is about a teacher in the 1940s. All pluses in my reading world that were offset by the three strikes against it: too sentimental, too dramatic, and a disappointing e...