The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
For any of you that know me, you know that I HATE to work in the yard. Flowers, trees and weeds are the death of me every summer. I don't buy flats of flowers every year but depend solely on those that pop back up every spring. This book makes me want to start my own greenhouse. The words and phrases used by Diffenbaugh make the book come alive.
The story is simply heartwarming and very well told. It is about an orphan, Veronica, who has a love of flowers from an early age. Every flower has a meaning and Veronica uses flowers to express herself, almost more than she uses words. As she goes through life flowers are the only comfort she has. There are many foster homes, group homes and failed adoptions. Then one day she is deemed unadoptable by a judge and when she is 18 she is thrown out on her own. Flowers are all she knows and eventually she lands a job with a florist.
Eventually Veronica learns to trust herself and others. She becomes a very sought after florist when one particular client credits Veronica with saving her relationship. This book will tug at your heart strings and I may have shed a tear or two. But the most amazing thing was the description of the flowers. I could smell them, the author made them so very real. I felt like the pages of book had come alive and I was standing in the middle of Veronica's garden.
This is surely a good one!
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
A good start!
11/22/63
Stephen King
This New Year is off to a good start and a not so good start. My not so good start is that today is January 16th and this is my first post. My good start is that the first book I read in 2012 is a real winner. As the new year rolled around I thought that I would be more dedicated to my blog. Posting once a week doesn't really seem like it would be that hard. Then January started, our computer crashed and I got sick in the first week. I'm sure that blogging at work is frowned upon so here I am my first day on our new computer. I will be (or try REALLY hard) to be more dedicated to writing in the blog. Now on to the books!
I have never read a Stephen King novel because frankly I don't really want to be scared enough to wet the bed at night. However, all the reviews said this novel was not scary and that it was a fantastic story. They were right! It is a time travel novel so it has it's own weirdness but it was so well written and thought out that I wasn't distracted by this.
Jake is a teacher in 2011. Al, a friend of Jake's, shows him a "rabbit hole" to 1958. When Al dies, Jake takes on his friends quest to prevent the assassination of JFK. Hence the title of the book. So Jake must live in the "Land of Ago" as he comes to think of it, until 11/22/63 when he can change history. One caveat with the time travel is that every trip to 1958 resets the past. So anything Jake fixes on his first trip back, he has to continue to fix each time he goes. I really can't say too much more without spoiling the book. It has everything though, love, mystery and science fiction. I would encourage you to read it. The only thing scary is the 840 pages but I still read it in like 10 days. It is completely worth your time.
Stephen King
This New Year is off to a good start and a not so good start. My not so good start is that today is January 16th and this is my first post. My good start is that the first book I read in 2012 is a real winner. As the new year rolled around I thought that I would be more dedicated to my blog. Posting once a week doesn't really seem like it would be that hard. Then January started, our computer crashed and I got sick in the first week. I'm sure that blogging at work is frowned upon so here I am my first day on our new computer. I will be (or try REALLY hard) to be more dedicated to writing in the blog. Now on to the books!
I have never read a Stephen King novel because frankly I don't really want to be scared enough to wet the bed at night. However, all the reviews said this novel was not scary and that it was a fantastic story. They were right! It is a time travel novel so it has it's own weirdness but it was so well written and thought out that I wasn't distracted by this.
Jake is a teacher in 2011. Al, a friend of Jake's, shows him a "rabbit hole" to 1958. When Al dies, Jake takes on his friends quest to prevent the assassination of JFK. Hence the title of the book. So Jake must live in the "Land of Ago" as he comes to think of it, until 11/22/63 when he can change history. One caveat with the time travel is that every trip to 1958 resets the past. So anything Jake fixes on his first trip back, he has to continue to fix each time he goes. I really can't say too much more without spoiling the book. It has everything though, love, mystery and science fiction. I would encourage you to read it. The only thing scary is the 840 pages but I still read it in like 10 days. It is completely worth your time.
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