Author: Sonya Sones
Now this is a book that is truly unassuming but turns out to be amazingly stunning.
Here is the good part about this book:
Funny
Poignant
Touching
Awesome
Chick-Lit
Hopeful
Happy Ending Story
Now, a lot of books can be attributed to having the above qualities except that they do not come with the kind of storyline or supposedly handicaps that this book does.
The book is in verse.
Story is about a 50-year old suffering from soon-to-be-an Empty Nest Syndrome when her only seventeen year old daughter is packing off to college
Menopause is fast approaching but the mood swings and hormonal imbalance already has set in.
Her own mother is diagnosed with muscular and mental disorders, hospitalized with copious amounts of steroids turning her patient and perceptive confidante into a raving, amnesical [is that a word], biting [literally too] shrew.
Add to that her mother's unhelpful doctor possesses an eerie, annoying, high pitched laugh and a sardonic bedside manner.
A major writer's block, a sneaking suspicion that Hubs dear is having an affair with daughter's BFF's glamorous mother, and a best friend searching for true love on the Internet are thrown in too.
After all that, you'd certainly not credit it with those splendid qualities listed above. YET, it turns out to be all that and more. Despite the unhappy plot, the book is heart-warming.
Read the book for:
Nostalgic memories of the daughter as a cute baby
Sweet encounters between an old couple
3 generations of women- all loving and sharing with each other and yes, even squabbling with each other
Romance and rants between the couple- Mills and Boon are great but this is what comforting reality reads like
Recipe for cookies
Happy Ending
Now this is a book that is truly unassuming but turns out to be amazingly stunning.
Here is the good part about this book:
Funny
Poignant
Touching
Awesome
Chick-Lit
Hopeful
Happy Ending Story
Now, a lot of books can be attributed to having the above qualities except that they do not come with the kind of storyline or supposedly handicaps that this book does.
The book is in verse.
Story is about a 50-year old suffering from soon-to-be-an Empty Nest Syndrome when her only seventeen year old daughter is packing off to college
Menopause is fast approaching but the mood swings and hormonal imbalance already has set in.
Her own mother is diagnosed with muscular and mental disorders, hospitalized with copious amounts of steroids turning her patient and perceptive confidante into a raving, amnesical [is that a word], biting [literally too] shrew.
Add to that her mother's unhelpful doctor possesses an eerie, annoying, high pitched laugh and a sardonic bedside manner.
A major writer's block, a sneaking suspicion that Hubs dear is having an affair with daughter's BFF's glamorous mother, and a best friend searching for true love on the Internet are thrown in too.
After all that, you'd certainly not credit it with those splendid qualities listed above. YET, it turns out to be all that and more. Despite the unhappy plot, the book is heart-warming.
Read the book for:
Nostalgic memories of the daughter as a cute baby
Sweet encounters between an old couple
3 generations of women- all loving and sharing with each other and yes, even squabbling with each other
Romance and rants between the couple- Mills and Boon are great but this is what comforting reality reads like
Recipe for cookies
Happy Ending
