035; I am back
I was supposed to make this post long ago, but I am lame, and did not because I had no idea what to write. I left randomly; I don't think any of my posts reflected problems that required me to leave lj world! I just didn't want to become so dependent on coming to livejournal when things in my life upset me, you know? I love you all so much, though, and I'm actually happy to say I missed you guys!
GOOD THINGS!
I read this book over a month ago, and the reason I have yet to post my review is because I always self-conscious about reviews I write. Oh well, I really need to post this.
This novel had the familiar albeit uncomfortable feel of a Lifetime original movie. I decided to give it chance, though, because of the raving reviews. It did rise above my expectations which were actually quite low because of the aforementioned. Anyway, this very poignant story is about the life of an orthopedic surgeon, his family, the nurse who helped him deliver his twin children, and the daughter he decided to give away. The doctor's family and the nurse's family cope with the events of night the twins were born in drastically different way which strongly suggest Kim Edward's personal feelings about the doctor's decision to give up his daughter. The novel was heart-warming, and I recommend it to anyone, really, because it has the faculties to hurt a person and make him or her think. Actions have consequences; decisions should not be made in haste or alone; and life and family and love are are hard to come by-learn to cherish them all.
Kim Edwards has a very crisp, refreshing writing style. She can achieve so much with minimalism and simplicity. I've always tried to create grandiloquent, florid writing (Hello, Shakespeare phase!) in literature classes because I never felt I could achieve what Kim Edward can with sparsity.
"his was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.
"...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood."
"He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone."
*envies*
GOOD THINGS!
- I can actually get things done when I tell myself to buckle down, young lady!
- Robin Sparkles. I don't think I ever expressed my love for Robin Sparkles and "Let's Go to the Mall" previously. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
- Marshall and Lily
- Literature&tea
- Visiting family and actually enjoying myself
I read this book over a month ago, and the reason I have yet to post my review is because I always self-conscious about reviews I write. Oh well, I really need to post this.
This novel had the familiar albeit uncomfortable feel of a Lifetime original movie. I decided to give it chance, though, because of the raving reviews. It did rise above my expectations which were actually quite low because of the aforementioned. Anyway, this very poignant story is about the life of an orthopedic surgeon, his family, the nurse who helped him deliver his twin children, and the daughter he decided to give away. The doctor's family and the nurse's family cope with the events of night the twins were born in drastically different way which strongly suggest Kim Edward's personal feelings about the doctor's decision to give up his daughter. The novel was heart-warming, and I recommend it to anyone, really, because it has the faculties to hurt a person and make him or her think. Actions have consequences; decisions should not be made in haste or alone; and life and family and love are are hard to come by-learn to cherish them all.
Kim Edwards has a very crisp, refreshing writing style. She can achieve so much with minimalism and simplicity. I've always tried to create grandiloquent, florid writing (Hello, Shakespeare phase!) in literature classes because I never felt I could achieve what Kim Edward can with sparsity.
"his was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.
"...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood."
"He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone."
*envies*