Story:How this book has helped me heal
How this book has helped me heal
This past summer I picked this book up at the bookstore. I really didn't know what it was about just saw it and thought it might be a good read. I was spending many hours at the hospital with my Mom and took it with me to pass the time. I was only able to start the first few pages before my mom who was diagnosed with cancer almost 8 years ago, said goodbye. We let her spirit free in a country cemetery on one of the hottest days of the year. After my Mom's passing I set the book down and didn't feel like reading. A few months later I started reading it again and was touched by so many of the parallels between my Mom's life and that of Barbra's. I cried a lot as I read this book taking the time to honor my Mom and her legacy that she left. It made me realize how important my Mother really was and how even though she is gone I can still continue. I want to thank Elizabeth for this novel as it was a small part of my healing. To my Mom and everything she has done for me and for so many other people in her life.
Thank you Elizabeth you are a wonderful writer and an inspiration.
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Hi Elizabeth Your book inspired me to be more honest with my daughters. I am still deciding just how honest I need to be, I dont know if they need to know the real truth abouth their father about the kind of life I have actually led with him. When we are at a function and I see how they adore him, I sit back and think to myself, would you really love him so much if you knew what he has put me throught this past 31 years? They dont remember him taking them to meet his mistress. And yes I know I ask myself everyday Why am I still with him? Am I such a weakling that I still havent developed the back bone to leave. Why do I stay in such a unhappy relationship? Is it because Im affraid that I will loose my daughters love if I leave him beacuse they love him so much? Maybe I am just affraid of being alone. A question for your readers Is it better to stay in a unhappy relationship or to leave and be lonely.
Hi Elizabeth Your book inspired me to be more honest with my daughters. I am still deciding just how honest I need to be, I dont know if they need to know the real truth abouth their father about the kind of life I have actually led with him. When we are at a function and I see how they adore him, I sit back and think to myself, would you really love him so much if you knew what he has put me throught this past 31 years? They dont remember him taking them to meet his mistress. And yes I know I ask myself everyday Why am I still with him? Am I such a weakling that I still havent developed the back bone to leave. Why do I stay in such a unhappy relationship? Is it because Im affraid that I will loose my daughters love if I leave him beacuse they love him so much? Maybe I am just affraid of being alone. A question for your readers Is it better to stay in a unhappy relationship or to leave and be lonely.
hi jstoby. i know how you feel. i lost my mum jjust over three years ago after spending practically every day in hospital with her in sept 2006 to dec 2006. I was only 19 and can relate to how hannah felt. i was mad at her for leaving me such a young age and just starting my adulthood. I wish she was still here and this book made me realise how much i miss my mum and how much she is still around us. i felt like i would cry but in that part im abit like lisa who was strong and kept it all back untill she broke up andy. and that happen to me i was strong untill i broke up with my ex in 2008.
I agree this is a fantastic book, thankfully I have not lost my mother but she lives far and I don't get to see her often but I can see how this book can help people heal, it just has that feel about it - what a fantastic thing for a book to be able to do. Elizabeth you have put a miracle into a book - well done.
Posted at 06:34 - 04.02.10 by planet1962