When you heard the words waiting place, what pops in your mind?

Me, it will always reminds me of my piano bench. No matter how tired my body, I always sit in front of my piano thinking of the day that passed and those hours that I find difficult to accept. Everyone have their own waiting place, we don't know how far can it be or how lousy the place is. Our waiting place will always be the place we can regain our strength and work as an individual. To think and to remember.

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The Waiting Place " by Eileen Button is a well written homely about learning from the places of waiting. Instead of cursing the silence; instead of cursing not being able to just rush ahead into something, anything; learning to be patient in the middle of life's circumstances. She shows that its human nature not to want to wait but often we have no choice and must wait anyway. She points out the value and even the importance of this part of life; that we could miss out because we aren't enjoying More...

The Waiting Place, Learning to Appreicate Life's Little Delays was such a wonderful read! This book is more than a devotional, it is a a collection of personal essays by the author using her real life experiences to show the reader that amazing things can happen in the places in life where we are forced to wait. It is immediately easy to identify with the author as her essays are honest and relatable. She laments that sometimes in life we think, "this is so not the life I thought I'd have", but More...

Title: THE WAITING PLACE
Author: Eileen Dutton
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
June 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8499-4625-7
Genre: Essays

We all spend time just waiting. We wait in traffic, grocery store lines and carpool circles. We wait to grow up, for true love, and for our children to be born. We even wait to die. But while we work at the business of living, sometime life feels like one long, boring meeting. We just can’t escape the waiting place, so what do we do while we are there?

Eileen Button has written a bunc More...

The book that I have received free from the publisher through the BookSneeze.com book review program is "The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays" by Eileen Button. Before I read this book, I shuffled/flipped through the pages thinking it was going to be short quotes or/and poems. To me, it looked like a chapter book (which it is), but it was something much more then just a regular and normal 'chapter book'. This book is amazing because throughout every chapter you read, it More...

I have always considered myself to be impatient, so this book really helped me to enjoy every minute of life, or 'appreciate lifes little delays'. Most of these essays are written with notes about God (Eileens husband is a pastor), but not all essays are, so even if you are not religious, you will still enjoy this book. This book will make you laugh and cry, but most importantly, it teaches you how to value every minute of every day.

This book is about Life. Real experiences. It is both an easy r More...

Eileen Button is part preacher's wife, part English professor and part newspaper columnist, living in the suburbs of Michigan. The essays in her first book, "The Waiting Place," gently ask us to redefine the way we think of waiting; waiting for the mail, for children to grow up, for a sign from God. Throughout, she reminds us that, as John Lennon sang, life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Waiting is not down time or lost time or wasted time; it's life. Whether she is More...

The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays [Paperback] By Eileen Button is a collection of short essays about waiting, whether it’s waiting ‘in traffic, grocery store lines, waiting to grow up or waiting for true love.’
I really enjoyed this book and liked the short essays as it made it easy for me to understand where the author was coming from. There were times throughout this book that I felt for the author especially chapters nine and ten.
Being from the UK I had never read More...

The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life's Little Delays
by Eileen Button

Synopsis



A collection of essays describing the beauty and humor that can be found in what often feels like a most useless state-The Waiting Place.

We all spend precious time just waiting. We wait in traffic, grocery store lines, and carpool circles. We wait to grow up, for true love, and for our children to be born. We even wait to die. But amazing things can happen if we open our eyes in The Waiting Place and peer int More...

This book is filled with short essays about just that - waiting. In it you will be encouraged in the time of waiting you are experiencing now. Your perspective might even be forever altered as she read through each essay. I truly enjoyed the honesty and open writing style of Eileen Button. With truth and candor she opens up her heart for others to see. Through it we are invited to savor those times of waiting, to eagerly look for God during these times, to grow with Him and in Him.

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A few years ago, I realized that it seems I'm always waiting for something. Waiting for a new phase of my life or for something that I'm looking foward to or even something that I'm dreading. So the premise of this book drew me in: Eileen Button writes twenty-two short essays about the waiting times in her life, and about how we can find beauty in the waiting places if we look. This was a sweet, deeply honest and personal book. Some of the essays are hilarious, and others are heartbreaking. Some More...

At times beautifully written and at times full of cliché, The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life’s Little Delays by Eileen Button is a worthwhile read if only for its powerful honesty.

Button – an adjunct professor, newspaper columnist, and pastor’s wife – is a competent writer, but she relies a little too much on trite sayings like “too much month left at the end of the money” (pg. 65) that she seems to think are clever.

She also leans too much sometimes toward corny sentimentality – “Wh More...

The Waiting Place by Eileen Button
Thomas Nelson, 2011
229 pages
Non-fiction; Essays; Inspirational
4.5/5 stars

Source: Received a free copy from Booksneeze in exchange for an honest review.

Expectation: I hoped for a companionable writing style and I got that in spades as Button drew me into her life. I got that in spades.

I wanted to read this as I am currently in my own waiting place; trying to figure out what I should do now that I'm graduated, submitting loads of job applications and hearing nothi More...

I am reviewing "The Waiting Place" by Eileen Button.

It's a collection of stories from the author's life.

Each story introduces a character that the author has met in her life at one point or the other. The book flows from one scene to the next and before you know it - your done.

The stories are uplifting and motivating.

It showcases the highlights and trials of every day life which any person can relate too.

The author's invites us to dwell on her family life and how it has given her different exper More...

The Waiting Place by Eileen Button (I get free books from Thomas Nelson Publishing for agreeing to review them on my blog through BookSneeze.com)
I thought this was going to be a book about practical things to do to endure/enjoy/redeem the moments of life that are spent waiting; kind of a self-help book. Well it wasn't that at all, but I was by no means disappointed. The Waiting Place is more of a memoir of times that Eileen has had places she calls waiting places. These places are gut wrenchingl More...

The Waiting Place was a remarkable book that will be staying in my shelf forever. It was absolutely amazing. Button's humorous writings made me laugh continuously while the impact of each lesson hit me full force and caused me to step back and take a look at my own life.

The main message of this book was found in a few simple words -- "In life you have to wait. Its how you wait that matters."
What a profound statement! Truth rings through it, and it really makes a person step back and evaluate the More...

In her collection of humorous essays, Eileen Button goes deep into the heart of what we each deal with in our every day lives. The Waiting Place is well-written, and an enjoyable read. Each chapter is a small snapshot of moments that are a part of Eileen Button's life, and ones that we can relate to. this book is a good read if you're looking to find encouragement and inspiration from someone else's life experiences. I hightly recommend this reflective book.

Great book. LOVE, LOVE, LOED it! Eileen writes from personal experience in such a way that you really feel a part of her journey and by reading of her experiences, your own just get better. Very comforting to know someone out there shares your journey and gets it.

Eileen Button’s book, The Waiting Place, is beautiful work that shares sweet vignettes about life and its special in-between places. An enchanting read, it gently entices the reader to travel down the road of her familiar past, while learning to embrace the unique moments where memories can be viewed as gifts.

The Waiting Place has something for everyone. It is inspiring, encouraging, and downright delightful. I loved it!!!

Her writing is genuine. Similar musings to Ann Voskamp but there is something about her personality and her experiences- geographically, that resonates with me. I can identify with where she has been and where she is now.

The Waiting Place explores pauses, the place between what we want and what is currently happening. Far from an over-generalized, cliched self-help book, The Waiting Place contains detailed "real life" stories from Button's life, a collection of essays that are connected by the theme of waiting. These stories are often really funny and suspenseful. It is the kind of book that is easy to read through quickly. When I finished it, I felt as though I had made a new friend because the author lets her More...

Funny, honest, vulnerable. She writes with such trust - trust in her readers, in her God, in herself. An open and delightful writer.

I loved this book so much I could hardly stand it. It's beautiful, honest, and hilarious. Get it now.

The Waiting Place begins with Eileen Button sitting on her couch, weary and uninspired, waiting for an idea for her weekly column to jump out at her from the pages of Newsweek. Button may not have hit upon the inspiration she needed for her column, but she was struck with the idea of this book. What follows are twenty-one personal vignettes which delve into the joys and frustrations, times of confusion and moments of clarity, that we all encounter in the waiting place.

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Several cute chapters at the beginning, but later memories are nothing special.

A more detailed review to come. I received this book compliments of BookSneeze.

Reviewed at her.meneutics, Sept. 6, 2011.

This book had stories in it that brought me to tears and others make me laugh. Lots of right to the heart moments that many of us have experienced. The author has a lot of spunk and made me want to get to know her more.

Excellent reflections on true to life situations. Down to earth thoughts on the ups and downs of life. Eileen's a beautiful storyteller and has a keen sense of what's real. More books like this please.

I liked this book of essays, though I wished at times that she wasn't quite so explanatory and let each essay speak for itself. Still, I would recommend this highly. It's an easy, encouraging read.