Book Review: Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel

 

Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Before a cruise I thought I was getting a book by a different author, but once I started this book my OCD kicked in and I had to finish it. This follows several southern women in the 1920s and how they deal with family and cultural dynamics. So much dysfunction and one storyline of sickening perversion made this a difficult read. It is so far removed from my life experiences and demonstrates how the Gospel changes people and families. That storyline alone tells me not to recommend this book to my friends.

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Book Review: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

 

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This book fit in my bag to read on a cruise as I wanted an easy fiction read purely for enjoyment. This really wasn't that for me, but since I didn't have access to another book on the boat and since I have to finish what I start I completed it. It was a bit hard to follow as there was a fantasy element that I just didn't get into.

I didn't really enjoy A Man Called Ove by this author although it was highly recommended by quite a few friends so I'm not sure why I thought I'd like this book, but what can I say? It was $1 at an estate sale  

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Book Review: An Invisible Thread

 

An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

An Invisible Thread is a can't put down book. It took only two days to read while I was on vacation. I don't know who recommended it or where I read about it, but I'm thankful someone or I did.
The thread is a reference to a Chinese proverb that people are connected with an invisible thread so they will inevitably meet and be tied together. My faith says that isn't by chance--it's God's plan. this is very much in the same vane as Same Kind of Different as Me but without reference to God or a faith foundation.
Would I have done what Laura did? I don't know. I know I'm not always responsive to panhandlers, but what if a child asked me for money?
Obviously this statement near the end resonated with me to identify with Laura: It's not your lot in life to have children but in fact to affect many.
I recommended this book.

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