I have been following Kristin Hannah on facebook and have been so excited about this book coming out. I knew it was military themed and it dealt with...moreI have been following Kristin Hannah on facebook and have been so excited about this book coming out. I knew it was military themed and it dealt with marriage. I don't like to know too much about a book so I can form my own opinions as I read it.
I loved this book.
I have only ever read Night Road by Kristin Hannah and blogged my thoughts on that book.
This book will stick with me even more than Night Road did.
I have always been amazed at the military, I cry at every departure and homecoming of military on the news. But this book took my heart as a mom, hit me with the reality of marriage and made me think of my friendships.
Because I don't want to spoil it for you, I'll just tell you to read it. I don't know a single person who would not benefit from reading this book.
It's a book you'll read and never have to think back and say, "Did I read that one?" No, this one etches it's words right into your very self.
This is the first Dee Henderson book I have read and ironically, it's the first book she wrote. This book gives me great hope in writing my own book ...moreThis is the first Dee Henderson book I have read and ironically, it's the first book she wrote. This book gives me great hope in writing my own book one day.
It's not at all what I was expecting. It's an easy read that makes you want to see the couple get together in the end but the intense healing that has to take place is deep.
Final thoughts on reading it.....I'm thankful for healthy kids and I don't ever want to take for granted them or my husband.
I love reading a back story, it always adds more the book you are reading, I think. And Erin does a great job with this book, highlighting the heroin...moreI love reading a back story, it always adds more the book you are reading, I think. And Erin does a great job with this book, highlighting the heroine's of childhood books.
Really, Erin had me at the first page.....
"In times of struggle, there are as many reason not to read as there are to breath. Don't you have better things to do? reading, let alone rereading, is the terrain of milquetoasts and mopey spinsters. At life's uglies junctures, they ver act of opening a book can smack of cowardly escapism. Who choses to read when tehre's work to be done?
Call me a coward if you will, but when the line between duty and sanity blurs, you can usually find me curled up with a battered book, reading as if my mental healthy depended on it. And it does, for inside the books I l love I find food, respite, escape, and perspective. I finds something else, too: heroines and authors, hundreds of them, women whose real and fictitious lives have covered the terrain I tool must tread.
Oh, have I needed some heroines in my life."
Not only does Erin do a great job of just summarizing the lives of the authoress', she also adds fun little tidbits at the end saying "read this book when....." and gives you examples in life when the heroine in THIS book is perfectly suited to this situation.
I am especially glad this book is now in our hometown library. I think the grandmothers, mothers and daughters will like to check out their favorite books "back stories".(less)
I read a chapter of this book on a slim recommendation from a friend. One evening, I read one chapter and found it so so. My initial thought was the...moreI read a chapter of this book on a slim recommendation from a friend. One evening, I read one chapter and found it so so. My initial thought was the author wanted to do a new Hunger Games sort of book. Then one night my husband was gone for the night and I picked up the book - already sleepy - and figured I would give it another shot because Alicia K. told me it was surprisingly good.
I started the book at 11pm. By the 3rd or 4th chapter, I was sucked in.
I finished, yes finished, the book at 5:30 in the morning.
Yah, it was a great book.
Not quite as haunting as Hunger Games series, in the same genre but not the same at all, and when my tired brain suddenly went 'click click click click' and I suddenly got it....oh my.
I read this book out loud to my four boys. While the story line is a good one and the boys had fun with it, it was a difficult book to read aloud bec...moreI read this book out loud to my four boys. While the story line is a good one and the boys had fun with it, it was a difficult book to read aloud because it was hard to say who was saying what. Also, there were some words I left out....like, I did not say what was written all over the cat in permanent marker. That said, this was a book the boys asked me to read and we read it aloud for a full hour to just figure out what the awful stench in the living room was. We are looking forward to a new book to read aloud together, it was a great bonding time and I am thankful we DID read this book. (less)
While it is deep and wonderful, one of those that sticks with you and you always will KNOW y...moreIt took me forever and ever to finish this book.
While it is deep and wonderful, one of those that sticks with you and you always will KNOW you read it and not wonder, it was a tough read.
I could only read a chapter at a time.
I'm glad I finished it, but half way through I needed to take a break from it.
A friend asked me, "If it's so deep and life changing, it at leasts has humor in it to balance it, correct?"
No. No humor at all.
Just deep and transforming thinking.
Very glad i read it, even more happy that I own this book because I can then mark it all up with notes and underlines, but I think it is a book I will go to to read portions, not reread.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND, just know what you are getting into.(less)
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