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Sex and The Seasoned Woman by Gail Sheehy
Wow, what an interesting book of information about other women walking around this earth. I am so impressed how so many women who have had their trials and tribulations after decades can keep moving forward in love and work and be fine and complete. I was motivated by this book, by her words and the lives of other women. I have even joined a dating service because I want to leap in my life like many of these case stories. Unlike some women I seem to find that are unhappy and cruel or are pitiful alcoholics.
Little Bee
by Chris Cleve
A best seller this year and I can see why. Again I get a political and history lesson from a novel. More so a current political lesson from news over seas we don't hear about nor do I care to hear during tough times. But these people's tough times are far worse and insane than we American's can imagine.
This is the lives of an English woman and an small African woman brought together by extreme tragedy on a beach in Nigeria.
It is very well written, provocative and quite captivating to read. The two women are the protagonists and with eloquence tell their personal stories of the main event and subsequent their lives as it merges together. It is tragic to the end, but they do emerge to a deep happiness fully felt through the words of this author.
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
Wonderfully written story of a man's search for the truth of his birth and his father. Living a life he thought he knew he learns clues from a story he found from his grandparents home an interesting homecoming story of a man and wants to find out the end. The parts of the book he found was just pages used as wrapping paper for some items. There was no ending. Then he finds out that the story may have been written by his own father who really is alive, not deceased as his mother had told him. So well written and descriptive of deep emotions.
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
Another fascinating adventure with Dr. Scarpetta in the realm of crime and autopsy. This one was about some little people, their relationship and the girlfriend getting murdered. She was involved with a cop who was a pervert and computer hack.
I got lost in the beginning with all the previous relationship that Scarpetta had with her boyfriend and detective that she had worked with. I should go back and start from the very beginning and enjoy them all.
Lost In The Forest by Sue Miller
Sad story of a woman lost in the forest of her life. About the betrayal of her first husband then the sudden loss of her current husband. It is also about the relationship she has and her husband has with their children. The Napa Valley is the back drop and not all accurate but nicely written.
Again, I did not like the characters very much for how they treated each other.
The Shore Limited by Sue Miller
A story of a woman and her reflections of the loss of her brother in 9/11 plane crash, her relationship with her own husband, an old fling and her brother's girlfriend. The book is of these individual people's lives. Sad for the most part, I did not like as many of the characters in this novel of hers, I did not approve of some of their relationships and selfish feelings. Approve, meaning I thought their positions were like a soap opera, where people interfere with others lives and gossip about it, rather than assisting one another like a feel-good movie.
Steering by Starlight - Find Your Right Life No Matter What!
By Martha Beck
Live while you are alive...
Learn to be what you are in the seed of your spirit
Learn to free yourself from all things that have molded you
And which limit your secret and undiscovered road...
Never forget that love
Requires that you be
The greatest person you are capable of being.
Self-generating and strong and gentle-
Your own hero and star...
Be grateful for life as you live it,
And may a wonderful light
Always guide you along the unfolding road.
