Wednesday, June 08, 2011
"Here, Home, Hope"
The kind people at One2One Network sent me a copy of "Here, Home, Hope" by Kaira Rouda to read and review. The story is about the midlife crisis of Kelly Mills Johnson, a ditzy, spoiled housewife with no clue as to how to fill her days, or have a life, outside of caring for her family. The book reads like a freshman English project, with too much explanation, too many adjectives, and nothing to make either the characters or the story feel real or compelling. It's still vaguely entertaining, but, speaking as a middle-aged woman who has already undergone my midlife crisis, I could not relate to Kelly, her friends, her life, her feelings, or anything else in the book, and the juvenile tone just isn't appropriate for the issues of a more mature woman.
It's not a terrible book, and if you've got time to kill and are in the mood for lightweight reading this story might fit the bill, but other than that I'd say give it a pass.
PS: *** THIS IS MY ONE THOUSANDTH POST!! ***
It's not a terrible book, and if you've got time to kill and are in the mood for lightweight reading this story might fit the bill, but other than that I'd say give it a pass.
PS: *** THIS IS MY ONE THOUSANDTH POST!! ***
Monday, June 06, 2011
An amazing goodbye
My mother passed away earlier this year. She had been, for lack of a better term, haunting the house; my friends and I had all felt her, and I heard her, SAW her, and experienced a major cold spot by her bed. After I buried her ashes in the back yard, though, she appeared to have gone, although I couldn't be sure. Then, when I was clearing out her secretary in the back bedroom, a tiny piece of paper appeared in the middle of the lid, face-up and oriented for me to read it; it said "goodbye."
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