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Prayers for Sale
by Sandra Dallas
by Sandra Dallas
I'm usually able to get through a book fairly quickly... but this one just kind of stumped me. I couldn't get into it. I know there were so many people who liked this one... but I just wasn't a fan.
I think part of my problem was that I just didn't like Hennie. She's telling Nit these stories to help her adjust to living in her new home... but the stories are DEPRESSING!! "This woman left her husband and that father killed his own baby and this person died and that baby died and this person committed suicide ..." DEPRESSING!!! And Nit loves these stories and says several times that they help her to "heal". I'm not sure how stories like that would help anyone heal! I probably would have thrown myself off the mountain listening to Hennie tell her doom and gloom stories. It made me just a tad crazy...
That being said... I did like the ending. I did like how things pulled together and worked out. Just not enough to make the rest of the book REALLY enjoyable for me...
I think part of my problem was that I just didn't like Hennie. She's telling Nit these stories to help her adjust to living in her new home... but the stories are DEPRESSING!! "This woman left her husband and that father killed his own baby and this person died and that baby died and this person committed suicide ..." DEPRESSING!!! And Nit loves these stories and says several times that they help her to "heal". I'm not sure how stories like that would help anyone heal! I probably would have thrown myself off the mountain listening to Hennie tell her doom and gloom stories. It made me just a tad crazy...
That being said... I did like the ending. I did like how things pulled together and worked out. Just not enough to make the rest of the book REALLY enjoyable for me...
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Feb 22, 2011 10:09pm
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Jamie wrote: "Tell me what you think of it when you're done!"I struggled with this one! I can usually read a book in a day or two... but this one was hard for me. The stories were so depressing. I didn't want to read more of her stories... I think there were only 2 or 3 stories that were told that I enjoyed. The rest just made me SAD!!
I did the same thing! I started it but it didn't really grab me. I never finished it before I had to get it back to the library.
Shannan - I'm glad I wasn't the only one... I kinda started to worry that I was crazy because I think everyone else in our book club has really, really liked it!
Jaime - it will be interesting when my book club meets next week. I didn't hate it... it was okay. Just okay.
I think that when you are going through a really rough time it helps to hear others who go through even worse. I'm not sure why that is but it's true. I have MS and life can really suck but in my support group there are others much worse and I think it makes me feel grateful that I am better off. I often tell myself that things could be worse and knowing people having it much worse just makes me appreciate where I am right now. Thats just my perspective. God Bless.
Robin O wrote: "I think that when you are going through a really rough time it helps to hear others who go through even worse. I'm not sure why that is but it's true. I have MS and life can really suck but in m..."I can see your point of view. I guess that didn't come across in the book to me. It just felt very, very depressing.
