Diego Senger Senger itibaren Damash, Gilan, Iranas
I read this after a friend and neighbor loaned me her copy (which she ended up gifting to me several weeks later). To be perfectly honest, this book did not hold a lot of promise for me. My progress stalled somewhere around page 50, all of which seemed to consist of a nearly constant inner monologue of "I am fat and everyone hates me!" I am a big woman. I have never been ashamed of it, nor apologized for it. I have certainly never agonized over my food choices or what others think of me. I found, while reading this book, that I became hypersensitive of what was happening around me. I grew almost paranoid, and I certainly felt shame. This was not, I think, the authors intention. However, it is what happened. So, stalled at page fifty. My friend encouraged me to finish the book, insisting that she had had a hard time with the first section too, but relief was coming (SOON!) and I should at least try to finish. So, I did. She was right, the book did get better. It got a lot better. I finished the rest of it in a single evening and wished that there was more. That being said, it was not a fluffy, happy book. I expected that it would be brainless drivel because of the cover and general attitude in the beginning, but it wasn't. It dealt with some fairly serious and weighty issues with a grace that was unexpected to say the least. I may never read it again, but I'm not sorry I did the first time.
“The House” by Anjuelle Floyd is a gallant and gracious attempt to make amends to a philandering husband when there is only one last opportunity for reconsideration. Anna Manning wanted a divorce from Edward, her husband of thirty years. In her anger, she wanted her freedom and the house. But in the process of getting a divorce, she learns Edward is diagnosed with a terminal illness. This fact touched Anna in such a way that she could not bear the thought of Edward dying alone. So, she has a change of heart. The thought of her husband going away without knowing how much she wanted to be with him was too much for her to bear. So, Anna tried to console him and love him on his death bed. This lyrical story is sort of sad, but there is a bright light at the end. In the midst of grief and thoughts of infidelity, Anna managed in her heart to give Edward a bit of acceptance and love in his final days. Although Anna grappled with her own personal demons, at the end, she found the strength to overcome them. The House is Must Read for all serious romance book lovers.