Book Eight: Beating the Devil by Laney Munroe
Beating the Devil by Laney Munroe, 75 pages
A woman on the brink of suicide after a life made almost unbearable by alcohol turns her life around when she 'beats the devil' at a game of cards. Before that moment alcohol was a dark cloud -- over her childhood, her relationships with men, her ability to keep custody of her children, her ablilty to hold jobs and her very desire to go on living.
Since then she has not only given up alcohol entirely but she is actively sharing her message of hope with the rest of the world.
This book is part of that sharing. & I add, she is from outside Halifax, NS.
Blah. Blah. Blah. I'm sorry, but this book was horribly written. I do not think anyone helped edit it for the poor woman. It was filled with grammatical & spelling errors. It jumped all over the place & didn't make me feel sorry for her. I just didn't get her message of hope whatsoever. I feel a bit bad feeling this way, but I can't help it. She did have a story to be told (this only confirms my theory that everybody on earth has a story worth reading), she just did a bad job of telling it.
A friend of mine lent me this last week, but I hadn't gotten around to reading it. I think my friend works with the daugher in law of the woman who wrote this. It was something like that. Anyway, my friend called looking for it today because someone else wants to borrow it. I almost gave it back without reading it, but decided to give it a chance anyway since I knew it wouldn't take long. It was super short, so short that I didn't know if I should count it as a book here. I'll count it though, partly because it cut in to my good book reading time today & partly because the author continually calls it her book. It must be "a book" then. :)
Finished: January 28th, 2006.
A woman on the brink of suicide after a life made almost unbearable by alcohol turns her life around when she 'beats the devil' at a game of cards. Before that moment alcohol was a dark cloud -- over her childhood, her relationships with men, her ability to keep custody of her children, her ablilty to hold jobs and her very desire to go on living.
Since then she has not only given up alcohol entirely but she is actively sharing her message of hope with the rest of the world.
This book is part of that sharing. & I add, she is from outside Halifax, NS.
Blah. Blah. Blah. I'm sorry, but this book was horribly written. I do not think anyone helped edit it for the poor woman. It was filled with grammatical & spelling errors. It jumped all over the place & didn't make me feel sorry for her. I just didn't get her message of hope whatsoever. I feel a bit bad feeling this way, but I can't help it. She did have a story to be told (this only confirms my theory that everybody on earth has a story worth reading), she just did a bad job of telling it.
A friend of mine lent me this last week, but I hadn't gotten around to reading it. I think my friend works with the daugher in law of the woman who wrote this. It was something like that. Anyway, my friend called looking for it today because someone else wants to borrow it. I almost gave it back without reading it, but decided to give it a chance anyway since I knew it wouldn't take long. It was super short, so short that I didn't know if I should count it as a book here. I'll count it though, partly because it cut in to my good book reading time today & partly because the author continually calls it her book. It must be "a book" then. :)
Finished: January 28th, 2006.