Friday, August 25, 2017

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

Read it, read it now!
According to Good Reads, I've read 46 books so far this year. And Cherise Wolas' The Resurrection of Joan Ashby is front runner for my favorite book of the year.  

A friend got an advance copy and lent it to me.  I finished up some other books and then sat down with this and a big cup of coffee.  Once I started it, I could hardly put it down.  It made me want to get up early to read! [I got some semi-solicited advice that if I wanted to get up early, to start the day doing something I like.]

I've convinced a few other people to read it despite finding it hard to concisely answer the question: What's this book about? Well, it's about a writer, marriage, motherhood, being your own person, fitting in, family, drama, and, of course, writing.  Sprinkled through the book are excerpts from the writer's stories that I also enjoyed.

My only complaint about this book was that it wasn't published when I was in graduate school, I would have loved to discuss this book in a literature class.

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