I really liked this book. Rhoda's husband leaves her for another man. That same week she gets into a bad car accident. She moves back to California to stay with her parents while she recuperates. She reconnects with her Mennonite roots that she left when she joined the academic world. This book ...
Writing a memoir is walking a fine line. It’s not a biography, so I don’t want to read someone’s entire life story. It’s suppose to be a collection of experiences with a unifying thread. And even though things don’t have to move in logical order, like they might in a novel, that unifying thread and ...
This is the story of Arlington - once a plantation belonging to Robert E. Lee and his wife (the great granddaughter of Martha Washington) and literally stolen by the US government at the onset of the Civil War. As the country struggled with the war dead, one man had a vision to plan a cemetery for ...
This book, like it's author, doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up.It's definitely laugh-out-loud funny, but the kind of LOL that almost makes you wince -- the humor is snarky, bordering on caustic. And it's turned on everyone in sight - most notably her Mennonite background, her parents...
Memoirs are just not for me. But there are quite a few laugh out loud moments, interesting insights into Mennonite culture, and epiphanies on family dynamics, religious upbringing, and surviving a messy break up of a marriage.
This is not without some interest and charm but, it's written like the memoir of a stand-up comic. I wasn't looking for jokes about moving back to a Mennonite community--I wanted to know more about the insights, thoughts and feelings of a person whose life straddled two very different worlds.
Honestly, I just read this to give myself a better impression of Mennonite family life than my ex-Mennonite friend left me with from her tales of growing up. I couldn't get all the way through it. It was cute, but very girly and repetitive. I'd recommend it over Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search f...
DNF (Did Not Finish). I didn't hate it, I just couldn't find a compelling reason to continue reading. I was bored. In fact, I fell asleep twice while trying to read it. There are way too many books out there that I don't want to waste my time. Glad I checked it out of the library. Good luck to futur...
Really enjoyed this book though it seemed to drag a little towards the end.Enjoyed the author's depiction of her parents; her father's good looks and her mother's 'niceness' and upbeat attitude toward everything. After healing from a hysterectomy, her husband left her for a guy he met on gay.com. ...
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