Love Me Not by Villette Snowe

Blurb:

Everyone deals with grief in their own way. For Heath, that meant becoming a gigolo. When he finds the woman who could turn his life around, she doesn’t understand his choice, and he’s left alone again. With a self-imposed one-year deadline, Heath needs to find a way to convince Kimber that his love is real. Love Me Not by Villette Snowe is a poignant tale of loss, love, and moving on.

Review:

I started reading Love Me Not by Villette Snowe and got to chapter eight before I realized that I was totally immersed in this book. This is one of those stories where the world around you ceases to exist. If you like erotica, Villette puts just enough heat in this book while telling a heart-wrenching story that will pull out raw emotion in you to the very end.

Heath’s past has made him a broken man. As a gigolo, he provides true passion to women, but he must come to the understanding that love is reciprocal and that despite how he sees himself, he is deserving of the love of those around him.

Length:  264 Pages

Digital Price:  $5.99

BuyLink:  http://www.lsbooks.com/love-me-not-p912.php

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The Sign for Drowning by Rachel Stolzman

Blurb:

Anna has grown up haunted by her younger sister's death. In the life she constructs as a barrier against the emotional wreckage of her family tragedy, Anna settles comfortably into a career as a teacher of deaf children. But a challenge arrives—in the form of a young girl. Adrea's disarming vulnerability and obvious need for love offer Anna the possibility of reconnecting with the world around her—if she has the courage to open her heart. The Sign for Drowning is a poignant story of loss and the unexpected occasions of grace that enable us to heal from it and grow beyond it.

Review:

The Sign for Drowning is a touching story about the drowning death of a five year old girl, Meagan, and the life-long impact it had on her eight year old sister, Anna. It has a contemporary setting, and is told in first person by Anna. It has all the pain of heartbreak and expressive love that comes with loss and the grief that envelops the ones who loved. This personal account is dry in places, as would be this type of emotional journey in reality. It incorporates Anna’s connection to the deaf world with an endearing look not only at the silence of deafness, but also the silence of death—not merely its ability to silence the dead one, but also its capacity to silence the living ones left behind. This book is an emotional read that ends in hope and recovery. It’s not for everyone, but I do recommend it as one that takes its reader on an engrossing journey from sorrow and despair to inner strength and acceptance.

Length:  208 Pages

Prices:

Print:  $19.95

Digital:  $1.99

Buy Link:  http://www.shambhala.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=The+Sign+for+Drowning

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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Blurb:

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.

Review:

Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson, is a powerful novel for its look inside the emotions, thoughts and dreams of young Ruth, in whose voice the story is told. It is a solemn tale, yet whimsical in its details. It is uniquely descriptive with unusual depth into the outer surroundings as well as the inner facets of its characters. It is fiction; however, in my own assessment, much of it must have been truthfully experienced in order to have been written because it contains an on-going element of incipiency totally unnatural to novels, which for the most part rise and fall with a smoothness of waves in creation. Robinson’s scenes are vivid—mostly depictions of winter and dimness, with every minute component seen and unseen in these conditions. Somewhat down-played in the plot is the magnitude of sacrifice Ruth’s aunt is willing to make to change the very fiber of her own being in order keep Ruth with her, but this makes sense because the story is told from Ruth’s perspective, whose awareness was muted to some extent by her internal struggles.

I did not closely identify with Robinson’s characters, but found them to be extremely interesting in their differences from myself. I consider this a well-written and remarkable book, and I highly recommend it.

Length:  219 Pages

Prices:

Print:  $15.00

Digital:  $9.99

Buy Link:  http://us.macmillan.com/housekeeping/MarilynneRobinson

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