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The Milestone Tapes is one of those books that really touched me because it is about the journey of love between a parent and child. Jenna Chamberland loves being a mother, but after a 3-year battle against breast cancer, she is dying. She makes the decision to stop treatment so that she can spend the most quality time left with her family, especially her 7-year-old daughter, Mia. Jenna records a set of ten audiocassettes that her daughter can listen to as she grows older and goes through different milestones in her life that her mother would have helped her through had she been alive, such as her first love, college graduation and her wedding day. What a loving provision and legacy from a… Read more
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This is a fun book! But at the same time it is a book that allows you to reflect on things about yourself you probably never questioned or had time to explore. The Secret Me Book is a journal that helps you discover your secret self by allowing you to answer all kinds of interesting questions or do various activities, such as drawing. I found questions I never thought to ask myself: -You have one year to do whatever you want. What do you do? -If you could open a store, what would you sell? -Imagine starting your life over from scratch. How would you begin? What would you change? Who would you become? This book brought me back to my childhood. It made me… Read more
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I didn't quite know what to expect from this book, but I certainly didn't think it would blow me away the way it did. Don't let the cover fool you, this isn't chick lit but literary fiction. It's a story that pulled me in right from the very first paragraph and didn't let go until the last page. I stayed up till the wee hours to finish it! Those of you who regularly read my blog know that I like to read good fiction and non-fiction books that deal with mental illnesses. So when I read the synopsis of this book I knew I wanted to read it. During the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy is a young plantation wife who strongly opposes her husband's treatment of his slaves. She ends up… Read more
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