True to form, I could barely take a break from this book. I absolutely LOVE Wanda Brunstetter's stories. She has a way of almost taking you by the hand and walking you thru, introducing you to each character along the way, and allowing you to almost form a friendship with them. This book was no different...and since it's the first in her new trilogy, I'm so excited to foster these literary friendships with such sweet characters, whose lives always end up connecting in the most surprising ways.
My copy hasn't arrived from Barbour Publishing yet, but I couldn't wait any longer so I picked one up at Sam's Club last night. After a quick Friday night dinner of pizza, I curled up on the sofa in my office, under a quilt Mamo made in her youth, with Annie dog asleep on my feet. I then spent the next several hours reading....by the time it reached midnight, I was well into my delusion of "only one more chapter then I'll go to bed". Right! It was close to 2am before I headed off upstairs to sleep. After taking Mom to work this morning, I sent Craig a text and told him I was going to grab something to drink and read a bit further. By noon I'll admit I was starting to feel a bit guilty about being so indulgent so I got Drive thru for the family for lunch and headed home...only to curl right back up on my sofa and finish this sweet story.
Closing the cover at the end was almost like shutting my front door after friends had come to visit. Bittersweet...I didn't want it to end, but now I might be able to focus on getting some much-needed chores done around this house;)
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