Recommended Book: “The Myth of You and Me” by Leah Stewart

Posted by kim on May 27, 2009

• The Myth of You & Me: A Novel (Hardcover)
• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books (August 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400098068
• ISBN-13: 978-1400098064
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6 x 1.2 inches

From the jacket cover…

When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend – no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet.

When an expected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn’t reply, despite Oliver’s urging. But then he passes away, and Cameron discovers that he has left her with one final task: to track down Sonia and hand-deliver a mysterious package to her. Now without a job, a home, and a purpose, Cameron decides to honor his request, setting off on the road to find this stranger who was once her inseparable other half.

The Myth of You and Me, the story of Cameron and Sonia’s friendship-as intense as any love affair–and its dramatic demise, captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers after the end of an important relationship.  Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absense of that first true friend.

Book Review: The Shack

Posted by kim on April 8, 2009

Order The Shack by Wm. Paul Young from Amazon.com

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Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever.

I have to admit this is not the type of book I usually read, but was glad I did when my aunt recommended it. At first I thought it was a bit far-fetched as I tried to imagine God with the appearance of a big black woman, but the book really makes you think. I related some of the values to my personal life that I been wondering “why did God let this happen?” It book helped me justify some of my own “sadness” and forgive those that caused grief in my life.