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Gold Dagger nominee In 1925 beautiful, bohemian Diana Pollexfen was celebrating her 30th birthday. The celebrations soured when her husband died, poisoned by a cocktail that had been liberally laced with some of Dianas photographic chemicals. Sixty years later, Dianas grand-niece, Helena, is also turning 30, but with rather less fanfare. An overworked attorney in London, Helenas primary social outlet is an obsessive love affair. By way of distraction, Helena starts looking through her great-aunts papers and soon develops another obsession: Determining just who did kill George Pollexfen in that lovely, sunlit garden between the wars. Elizabeth Ironside is the pseudonym of Lady Catherine Manning, wife of the British Ambassador to the U.S. Her first novel won Britains John Creasey Award for Best First Mystery of 1985, and Death in the Garden was nominated for Britains CWA Gold Dagger for Best Mystery of 1995.
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Beautifully written.......2007-09-01
Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside is worth reading twice or even more. It is not a traditional "English Cozy" although it takes place in England. The characters are finely drawn, and the atmosphere comes through beautifully. Although I realized by whose hand the deed was done before the end, I was afraid for a while that the protagonist, Helena, would be faced with ambiguity that her lawyer mind could not accept. I was mistaken, and even the subplot had a convincing air. If the book could be said to have a moral (and such a beautiful book often does) I would say the following: Sometimes in our decision making we say to ourselves, "What is the worst that can happen?" Well, sometimes the worst is beyond what one imagines.
Excellent structure, beautiful language.......2007-06-15
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel by Elizabeth Ironside (aka Lady Catherine Manning). The multiple points of view, expressed in different forms--ie straight narrative, fictional excerpts from books, diaries, and genuine dialogue--made for a lovely novel which I read slowly to savor both the characters and the language. In time, the novel takes place in the mid 20s, at the home and in the world of Diana Pollexfen then moves to present day London and the life of solicitor Helena Fox, who ends up investigating Diana Pollexfen's life and the murder that occurred at her house. The trauma and shell shock of World War I and the Russian Revolution impact all the 20s characters while socialism, feminism, and adultery color the views of the present day character and bias their judgments of the past. With approach of a sensitive historian (ie multiple sources & acknowledgment of bias), Ironside brings great observational skill and humane compassion and understanding to her characters, thus, to her novel.
Good Read.......2007-02-07
I loved this book and another one Eliz. Ironside wrote, "The Accomplice". It reminded me of Agatha Christie books. I had a little difficulty keeping the people straight in the beginning, but once I did the book moved along and for me it was a hard-to-put-down book. I would absolutely recommend this book.
Death in the Garden.......2007-01-10
The reviews were great but I was disappointed. The story seemed to move awfully slow and I found myself having to go back and reread what I read yesterday. It wa good but disappointing. Interestingly different plot.
Cold case, hot mystery.......2007-01-09
I ordered this book because the description promised an entertaining mystery set in post-war England. Yes, it was that, but much more! From the beginning, the reader is drawn into another world, another era, populated with richly detailed characters and intriguing hints of past events. Ultimately I was able to guess what happened, but I was successful only because the author has done an outstanding job of fleshing out the personalities of the key players. I am now in search of every book this author has produced!
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Louise Eldridge is taking her public television garden show on the road--to Hawaii! But the tropical paradise isn't so idyllic once murder makes an unexpected appearance...
Lush with hibiscus, ficus, plumeria, and monkeypod trees, the island of Kauai is the perfect place for Louise to film a few episodes of Gardening with Nature.
After their shoot at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Louise unwinds with a sunset walk on the beach. But at the base of a cliff, she makes a grisly discovery: the battered body of Matthew Flynn, a noted botanist. Her attempts to save his life are fruitless, and--after seeing his injuries firsthand--Louise is convinced that his death was no accident.
Now it'll take some serious digging for Louise to unearth more clues, but she'll have to be very careful, because this is one killer who is ready to plant her in the ground...
"Neatly plotted...Ripley's green thumb fans will relish the paradise island setting and Louise's reliable sleuthing." --Publishers Weekly
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Great story, great setting.......2007-04-02
This is the first book I've read in this series, and it was terrific. The author does an amazing job with the setting, particularly the trip to the volcano. The plant information is interesting and so is the debate in the storyline about searching out new plants for different possible commercial applications. I liked the main character (though I personally didn't think much of her husband!) and was surprised at the solution. Will definitely look to read more by this author.
botany version of Ten Little Indians.......2006-11-06
Louise Eldridge is euphoric as she takes her DC based PBS show, Gardening with Nature, to the Hawaiian island of Kauai for a special shoot at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Louise has scheduled a panel of expert guests to discuss horticulture. However, she finds the egomaniacal quartet (nursery owner Dr. Bruce Bouting, ethnobiologist Dr. Matthew Flynn, environmentalist Dr. Charles Reuter and Pacific Island expert Dr. Tom Schoonover) so obnoxious she looks forward to leaving paradise for home.
While strolling on the nearby beach, Louise finds the battered body of Dr. Flynn that she quickly concludes was a homicide. Police Chief Randy Hau leads the official investigation, but a second homicide occurs. Unable to heed her spouse's warning to stay out of the dangerous water, the plant lady begins an inquiry as she seeks the root cause of this homicide.
The Gardening Mystery (see SUMMER GARDEN MURDER) crowd will enjoy the change of milieu because Louise feels a need to uncover the botany version of Ten Little Indians. The whodunit is fun to follow as Chief Hau and amateur sleuth Louise separately work the case. Fans of the series will root for the plant lady as Ann Ripley provides a fun tropical cozy.
Harriet Klausner
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This book offers a gentle, thoughtful and reassuring explanation of death and cremation. It tells the true story of the author's grandfather, who had asked that his body be cremated and placed in the garden. It explains the cremation process, describes what ashes look like, and offers suggestions for finding a special place for our loved ones.
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Great!.......2005-05-10
Mary Anne's friend died in a car crash. Mary anne's thing is always cry and cry. I didsn't cry in this book. I'm a lot like Kristy, she's tough, i'm tough.
A Great Book, very realistic and very Sad.......2005-01-05
I cryed when i read this book because it was so sad. In this book Mary Annes friend was killed in a car crash and Mary Anne who is already very sensitive struggles to cope with her grief. I thought that the book was very realistic. Some of the babysitter were not sad because they didnt know Amelia. Even though everyone should be sad about an event like this that is not how it always goes. Recently a boy in my school killed himself and i heard many people in the halls saying that they werent sad because they didnt know him. I didnt know him but i was sad. I would recomend this book to all BSC readers. Just make sure you have a box of tissues near by when reading
One of the Saddest books I ever read.......2002-04-26
This book is about when Mary Anne and her English group work on a project. So then everybody thinks of a good idea to write an old-fashioned newspaper from Shakespeare's time. A girl in Mary Anne's group named Amelia Freeman told everybody she was going out to eat with her mother, father, and brother. She said she knew this project would be an easy A+. She told them how she wished she could bring them along.
The next day it was announced that Amelia had been killed in a car accident. Luckilly, the rest of her family was in the hospital and would be fine. Mary Anne was so upset that she needed to talk to a Psycayatrist. But what she told the Psychiatrist made me think. This is what she said, "As she was about to go home she said she wanted to bring us along. So if I was in her car then, I might have been dead now if I were with her."
I recomend this book for people who just lost a loved one.
A Book I can Relate to.......1999-10-03
this book is about Mary Anne's friend who died. Just over summer break, my best friend and english partner, Judy, died in a car accident. This book relates to me and is written very carefully. sad.
one of the saddest BSC stories.......1999-05-09
In this book Mary Anne starts getting real close to a girl named Amelia when they work on a project together. Amelia and the other kids working on the project come over Mary Anne's house to work. Later that night Amelia and her family are on their way out to eat and they are hit by a drunk driver and Amelia is killed dead. Everyone is grief-stricken and goes to Amelia's funeral. Mary Anne finds a special way to keep Amelia forever in their memory. This was too sad for me because I like a happy book better but I am sure a lot of people would love it a lot.
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Emerald's Garden is about discovering hope after suffering loss such as death, disaster, divorce, or disease. Emerald's Garden is a road map to recovery providing practical suggestions on how to grieve, mourn and recover from loss.
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Really loved it.......2006-09-13
Reviewed by Audrey Hauser for Reader Views (9/06)
When I read the preface of "Emerald's Garden" telling that it was from the author's journal I thought I might be getting into the day by day details of her life path and it would get tedious. This book is anything but boring. Marsha Johnson uses words masterfully as she tells the story of her niece Emerald Alexis Watson. I actually felt like I was with Marsha and Emerald the week-end of their last visit. There was the absolute joy only a child can bring to us. When word came of Emerald's sudden illness and her brief fight for life I felt the same disbelief as Marsha did. I asked the question why?
Marsha's Lessons in Death were something I could apply to myself for I too have lost someone that I loved dearly. Her feeling that it is something we all must face was enhanced by the deep feeling for Emerald and the short time that Emerald was in her life. Some of those simplest things in life are brought out by association with a child and are remembered even when there is heartbreak. As if Emerald's death wasn't enough to cause heartfelt grief, Marsha also had to come to terms with the death of her co-worker and friend, Crystal and Crystal's baby soon after. It was these second deaths that caused her to take stock of her life. Was she really a success or was she a failure? The insight came through God that she must find her purpose no matter how long it took. After all, Marsha was not just planning her life but her eternity. She learned that even though her hopes were for the best things that she must prepare for the worst of things.
In preparing for the worst, Marsha used her skills of organization to put her life in order. Planning for the future meant planning for the crises that would come. All during her grieving she questioned her spiritual life was what it should be. A voracious reader, Marsha went through books on everything that she thought would help her. She was emotionally drained but at the same time realized that by keeping her mind healthy she would also help her emotions to heal. With not only the deaths, but also a divorce to contend with, Marsha stresses the importance of not taking on too much. Easier said than done, Marsha learned that by helping others she was on the road to better health. She just needed to learn to limit herself. Her finances were in disrepair and she looked to a goal of cleaning them up without setting a definite time period. Her reasoning was what it took to get there and equally would take time to get back on her feet. Preparation to grieve could not be complete without looking at preparing physically. That meant healthier eating and exercise.
The section on Compassion was the most thought provoking for me. I've long known that a burden shared is a lighter burden, but like Marsha, it took me awhile to learn that it really doesn't matter to others how much we know, but it does matter how much we care. Is laughter appropriate in the grief period? Definitely. The adage that laughter is good medicine is even truer in times of grief. Marsha gave us lessons in how to put people first, before things. Her story helped me better understand that showing compassion is showing our Christian testimony to those around us. It is important to show love and not hide it. By doing this we risk rejection and pain but it is still important not to withhold our love. Loving unconditionally is true love, and it is a language understood by people everywhere. Sometimes all we can do is to hold someone who is suffering The Biblical passage referring to Titus took on new meaning as I thought back to the Titus` in my life. I realized that even in my worst times God had sent me a Titus too. I finally realized that to have gained compassion for others I had to walk the path of suffering myself and I have done that.
The dos and don'ts of mourning were included in a helpful way and frankly are something worth printing out and keeping handy. The ways of showing our grief, also outlined, are guides to help those going through that period. Everyone has a different way of grieving and a different schedule. I especially thought the chapter on children's grieving was well put. We sometimes don't realize that children are affected by death too. Every one of us has to go through grieving and mourning before we can start our recovery. There will be suffering and tears and this is a real part of the process. If we find God in our lives we need to be thankful and give praise. We need to learn the act of forgiveness. All of these things will guide us to the recovery stage and help us to the time when we can say good-bye to our grief and go forth with living.
This book taught me a lot about myself and called for me to do some soul searching. I have walked many of the same paths as the author and while I did not follow the same guidelines I believe I have become the person I am today because God was there with me. Because of "Emerald's Garden", I revisited my past and saw that had some of these things been pointed out to me then my road would have been easier to walk.
A Simple, Clear Message of Hope.......2006-07-18
In the days following the tragic death of her four year old niece Emerald, Marsha Johnson realized she was not ready to face grief or crisis in her life. She began to journal her journey to recovery.
Johnson developed sound principals in her journals and organized them into steps for preparation for crisis: death, divorce, and disease. These journals were then expanded to become lessons for her children in preparing for life, physical, emotional, and financial.
Marsha was encouraged to pass these lessons for life on to the reader through this book. The early chapters deal with the reality of death, preparing for the worst, and lessons Marsha learned on compassion. She then goes to share insights into the do's and don't of mourning manners. The final chapters deal with the grieving process, including sensitive help in dealing with grieving children, pain, recover, suffering, and saying goodbye. In saying goodbye Marsha moved on to finding fulfillment in finding God's purpose for her life and the transformation that followed.
I personally, was challenged in the areas of compassion. Marsha illustrated the themes of this chapter by sharing her own discovery of the burden for compassion, caring, laughter, and putting people first. By sharing from her own pain and suffering, Marsha has added a dimension that makes the message of the book authentic and real.
Johnson stated her desire in writing was to bring a clear message of hope to the grieving through the pages of this book. She has successfully empathized with and offered comfort to the reader. Her work is well organized, clearly articulated.
This is a book that fits into the genre of "self help" (in preparation for crisis) or in "grief" as related to the loss, of a loved one, through death, divorce, or other losses.
This is a valuable resource for grief counselors, pastors, or individuals reaching out to comfort those needing the promise of "hope."
Living, Loving, and Saying Goodbye.......2006-07-12
Marsha shares with us a very personal journey through loss and growth. Every parent's nightmare, the loss of child, was the catalyst that caused her to write Emerald's Garden after the loss of her little niece. Life, for all of us, is a journey of living, loving and saying goodbye, and with Marsha's inspiration, we come away with the assurance that the world is still a beautiful place. This book is well written, and inspirational. Emerald's Garden is a book that will help you over the loss of loved ones.
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Curl has fashioned an absorbing, lucid and entertaining book describing the Victorian response to the only certainty in life--death--including the disposal of the dead, landscaped, cemeteries, funerals and more.
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In this second episode of the Father Ananda mystery series, all is not as it seems when Father Ananda is summoned by the Buddhist authorities in Bangkok to investigate an odd case of suspected suicide in a rural temple. A young nun's gruesome death in a crocodile pit at the temple's Buddhist theme park sets off a chain of events that places Ananda and his novice Jak in grave danger. Determined to expose the secrets hidden in this famous monastic community, Ananda fights powerful vested interests.
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A book not only for the eye........1999-11-19
An excellent book with wonderful pictures, from day-to-day tasks to warfare and elaborate rituals, accompanied by a fair amount of written information. It's a compelling still life of the Dani in the Baliem valley at the time civilization started to gain momentum and changed their way of life forever. Even though it's written mainly for an ethnographical audience, it's very readable and a must for anyone interested in the highland tribes of Irian Jaya and their cultural background.
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Virginia Woolf once described Katherine Mansfield as "of the cat kind, alien, composed, always solitary & observant." All of these qualities are on display in Mansfield's writing, as well; hers are lonely tales of missed connections, inchoate longings, and complicated emotions within the context of a rigidly defined social setting. Born in New Zealand, Mansfield set many of her stories there, even though she emigrated to England in 1908 at age 19, never to return. Her characters are almost invariably middle-class, the daughters, sweethearts, wives, and widows of office clerks, military men, businessmen. In "At the Bay," for example, Mansfield focuses on the Burnell family as they take their summer vacation at the beach. Not content to follow just one character through the story, she drifts in and out of the consciousness of half a dozen, from the family cat to Stanley and Linda Burnell, their children, Linda's sister, Beryl and their in-laws, the Trouts. Dipping into Linda's thoughts, for example, we learn that she loves her husband--"not the Stanley whom everyone saw, not the everyday one; but a timid, sensitive, innocent Stanley who knelt down every night to say his prayers and who longed to be good." Unfortunately for Linda, "she saw her Stanley so seldom." Mansfield then swoops into the mind of Stanley's brother-in-law, Jonathan Trout, who is discontented with his life but knows he hasn't the will to change it, and then on to Beryl, whose longing for "someone who will find the Beryl they none of them know" leads her into a rash action.
In the title story, Mansfield concentrates on young Laura Sheridan on the afternoon of her family's garden party. The story follows the family through the preparations--flags to identify the different sandwiches, the delivery of cream puffs, the setting up of a marquee on the lawn. This perfect idyll is broken, however, by news of a fatal accident down the lane. A young workman has been killed, leaving a wife and five children. Into Laura's perfect Eden, death comes whispering and her reaction to it is both subtle and surprising. In fact, many of Mansfield's stories feature young women on the brink of adulthood--facing, for the first time, the realities of their constricted lives. Love is a trap; childbearing is another; death can be "simply marvellous." Mansfield died in 1923 of tuberculosis, leaving behind a body of work that is as bold, unconventional, and modern as she was. The Garden Party and Other Stories is a fitting epitaph. --Alix Wilber
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The classic stories of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) continues to surprise and delight readers even today. In deceptively simple language, Mansfield illuminates complicated relationships and profound, often troubling ideas, capturing the telling moments of her characters' lives in precise, luminous detail. .
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IF KIPLING HAD BEEN A WOMAN..........2006-02-20
If Virginia Woolf once described Katherine Mansfield as "of the cat kind, alien, composed, always solitary & observant," I would go even further and say that she is quite simply the best short story writer of the 20th Century, ...bar Kipling maybe... If she had lived longer she would surely have eclipsed him as a stylist and attention to detail decscribed in ways that defy explanation.
I was only guided to Mansfield, by my friend and fellow Cambridge-educated mountaineer who swore by her prose...
This compilation of stories varies from those she wrote in her pre-consumptive days in New Zealand to those analysing the corrosive influence of ideas that should have long been dead... colonialism, subtle racism, and the dominiance of the male sex. All written in such a way that ellicits pathos with no cry for help... the pathos lies in the condition, not the individual situation. It is this capability to allude to the universal indirectly from the particular that stands out.
Some of the stories range from ones with a classical shocking turn of ending... and others that just sort of trail off into the ether and we are left with some sort of satisfying feeling and a supposed deeper understanding of something ineffable...
I think about the wonderful later stories of Kipling such as "The Gardener" and I am struck by the emotional female empathy, the shock left unsaid (and sometimes unknown), and unrequited longing for a lost world and for a new one.
It is this ability to describe things that Mansfield really excels in, and the volume really makes one yearn that she had lived to produce more...
Essentially English poignant presentiments.......2005-06-12
Mansfield was in competition with Virigina Wolf during her short life - the one female writer who could compete with the proverbial literary giantess of the pre-war era (as Wolf herself admitted - she respected the former's talent). I think Mansfield ranks as true literary bloom of the first quarter of the 20th century as a generality, hobnobbing with Irish talent like Joyce and fitting into that stage that also held T. E. Lawrence and John Buchan - the male writers always dominating. Mansfield represents the rank outsider, not male, not "English" but breaking through into recognition while she lived.
Her writing is distinctly impressionist in flavour. Sentences broken and stories only half complete. But she writes beautifully, often echoing her impending death from TB. An outsider with her sexuality in how she experimented including a brief pretence of motherhood and her spirituality. She attended Gurdjieff's centre and was obviously fond of the pragmatism of certain Eastern traditions compared to the prevailing cult.
But she only reveals so much in her writing. So much remaining unsaid. Happy stories like "Bliss" and funny stories like "The school mistress". So many details from life at the time like ships, parties, schools, courtship, and the lives of ordinary people from the well bred elites to the downtrodden poor. Mansfield frequently displays a sympathy for the underdog and cries out about the transience of things and the lack of stability in pleasure - vaguely Buddhist even ... But her stories are yet so English with glimpses of her native New Zealand from which she was divorced. She write well about the dazzle of things like summer or flowers, children, sounds and people - everything highlighted. She is so good with colloquial speech and represents it well ... conversations that bring out sentiments of characters and in the reader.
You can't get enough of this genre. The only genre she knew. Little cartoons of short stories, almost always making a point, sometimes sharp but not overtly moralistic. Everything is so precise, a melody from the heart. This like any other collection of her work is worth attention, to read or as a gift.
The introduction is good and Mansfield will probably for ever remain not too well known but a gem to those who find her.
please don't miss this - Mansfield is essential.......2003-04-10
If you've never read her short stories (she never wrote anything else), please do, and then read her journal. There is really something incredible that's underneath the surface of her short stories. If you just looked at the surface you might think they were cutesy or affected (little girls figure largely), but you would be completely missing the point. It's hard to explain what's so moving about them. When she describes some lazy afternoon, she just gets it so right that all the vast range of human experience seems to be contained in this afternoon (whereas in any Great American Novel-esque tomes you read only a fraction of that experience is ever expressed). But at the same time, it was just this cute little vignette that had very satisfying descriptions of flowers and little girls playing. The journal will help you understand her sadness as it's expressed in her work. You know when you are very, very upset, and you see something so beautiful or even funny, you're likely to become on the verge of tears? That's how Mansfield sounds in her stories - the stories are that beautiful thing that she sees.
She is most often compared to Chekhov, and it's not difficult to see why. I truly believe that Mansfield innovated and practically invented the English (language) short story.
Garden Party.......2003-03-26
Mansfield's innovative diction captivates readers and draws one into her own world. A world in which individuals are not bound by the common restraints of society.
The Garden Party and Other Stories.......2001-12-14
I came across K.M. as she liked to be refered, 60 years after her death. Very late,but better late then never. And especially for K.M. In a german Pension indrigued me first,a review told me, she could have made a lot of money, to publish it again, during the WWI.she declined. She had lost her Brother at the somme, but could not bring herself to more war mongering.
Then I read The Garden Party, and new nearly instandly what kind of person she might have been.
She disliked being priviliged, down the Street, kids her age where starving. The Garden Party gave her an opportunity to disclose Society as what it was. The gap between the Have and Have not.And this in the early 20th century in New Zealand.
And the Garden Party is on of the few stories at the backdrop of New Zealand scenery.
Her Stories make still a highly interesting read, very modern issues with an unbelievable talent for drama, as well as a very dry Sense of humor, like in 'A german Pension'
One or two stories of her are always my companion.
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Ashley'S Garden Aftermath Of Oklahoma City Bombing
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Kathleen Treanor
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Kathleen Treanor couldn't believe this was happening to her. The young Oklahoma mother discovered that her in-laws had had an appointment in the ill-fated Murrah Building on April 19,1995, and they'd taken her four-year-old daughter, Ashley, with them. After days of waiting, she and her family found out that they'd lost all three loved ones. In the years since then, Kathleen kept a journal that describes her unspeakable loss. From the FBI's search for the terrorists and Timothy McVeigh's trial - where Kathleen was a witness - through Kathleen's involvement in the building of a memorial and her quest to have another child, Ashley's Garden details one woman's struggle to live. Although Ashley's Garden is Kathleen Treanor's unique story, the book provides a universally compelling view of triumph over grief, faith renewed, and healing restored.
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Touching.......2004-04-12
This is a touching book about the loss of a child and the process it took to recover spiritually and emotionally. Highly recommended.
ashley's garden aftermath of Oklahoma City Bombong.......2004-02-28
I confess I bought this book with a lot of worry that I would waste both my time and money and was really surprised that I got interested so quickly. I highly recomend this book. It is a wellwritten account of what happened {I live in Oklahoma} It is really a moving book. I actually cried and it takes alot for a book to make me cry. It also made me stop and think about my relationship with god.I'ved read alot of the bombing books and this is one of the best.
Wonderful and Inspirational!.......2003-03-26
This book is very wonderful and inspirational. It tells in full detail about one family's loss on that fateful day in Oklahoma City. It's great for people dealing with a loss or even for people who aren't going through a loss.
I couldn't put it down.......2002-04-24
I started this book thinking it would take me a while to read it, but I read it over two days because I just could not stop reading. Kathleen Treanor's story is very personal; it's not just what you know from the news. And much of the book focuses on her healing process.
She offers hope to anyone who has suffered a tragedy, not just those affected in Oklahoma or New York.
I never realized how much the letters from school children meant to victims of a tragedy.
Kathleen talks about how one day everyone else seems to go back to a normal life, and you can't understand how they possibly could after what has happened. Yet she eventually heals, and her journey is truly inspirational.
This is a wonderful book.
This book is a "must read!".......2002-04-22
On April 19, 1995, the lives of the Treanor family were forever changed by the tragic loss of their daughter and parents. The author describes through heart-breaking detail their struggle to survive and eventually triumph over this horrible chapter in their lives. As an Oklahoman, I started the book believing it would speak to all of us who experienced this terrorist act in our own neighborhood. By the time I finished, I realized this book speaks not just to Oklahoma, but to the world.
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