I was surprised to hear the book doesn’t have much info about her fight with cancer. I assumed that would be the main focus of the book. I’m still going to buy it, though, as we would be interested in the other aspects of her life, anyway. I know she sure went through a lot with Brett. They’ve been together for a long time. I know he wouldn’t be what he is today without her. Behind every good man is a great woman!

I admire them both very much. I think they are class acts all the way!

Mike Smith
http://www.Favre4Sale.com

(And I think I just read another review of that book somewhere else. Must go peek at AAR.)

I will never read a menage scene quite the same way ever again. =:-o

I live in WI and am a huge GB Packer fan so I’m sure I’ll pick this up at some point! Considering that I met my hubby at Bible College I’m pretty sure the devotionals won’t bother me ;) Everyone is different, that’s what is so great about reading all the different reviews and such. Sometimes I read a review that gives something an A and I read it and go “eh”. Or I read a review of a “C” book and I think “sounds good” and I love it! You just never know. What works for some people doesn’t for others and vice versa.

I think part of the problem is that it jumped around alot. It wasn’t written in any sequential manner. It was almost a stream of consciousness sort of thing where one topic would remind her of another topic which would remind her of another topic.

My biggest disappointment though was that so little of the book dealt with her breast cancer. As most people have, I have close family members who have suffered this and chemo is so debilitating. She really glosses over it. Once sentence was devoted to the lumpectomy and her relief at getting the lumpectomy. More of her issues dealt with her losing her hair, but for the most part it seemed her bigger trauma was dealing with Brett when he was an addict.

I’d really like to read this, although for me it’s more about Brett than Deanna, being a football fan. If I wasn’t a born and bred Pats fan and could choose my own team, it would be the Packers. Although wearing cheese on my head might be a deterrent…

I digress. I meant only to say I might still read it, if they gathered all the Scriptures into one, easily-skippable portion of the book.

I was more responding to the comment about shoving faith down someone’s throat. If it is mentioned in the description of the book I just don’t see it that way then, that’s all.

Dear Mom:

Remember those books that you used to find hidden underneath my bed and between the mattresses and then would throw away because they were trashy? Well, this one is worse. Way worse. Because the ones that I read when I was a teen didn’t have a lot of secks in them and this one has so much, the I wonder how the heroine can walk the next day.

Seriously, she was going at it with two guys at once! Two guys, mom. I didn’t even know that went on. I mean, when we talked about the laying on of hands, I didn’t know that this sort of thing was what you meant. Or maybe that wasn’t what you meant.

I can tell you, though, if you had just been forthright and told me about some of the shenanigans couples would get into, I would have been scared straight. See, in this book, the girl is a virgin like I was, but was really unhappy with her virginity so she goes and tries to get an old friend with whom she had a crush on five years ago to deflower her.

I didn’t know virgins were so bold, Mom. And why this girl would want to humiliate herself in front of some guy she hadn’t seen in like 5 years is beyond me. I guess her school didn’t have sex education because even as sheltered as I was, I knew what it meant to be deflowered. But, I guess it’s not the same thing for this girl because she gets deflowered by two guys. It’s a double deflowering. It’s like getting the stamen ripped out and stamped down and then having that gaping hole in the middle of the flower being stabbed from both ends. Of course, in the book, though, it’s supposed to be all pretty because the guys who were doing the stabbing were all experienced and stuff.

But still, it didn’t read very romantic and while she ends up with only one guy at the end, she sure got her education.

Anyway, I am sorry I didn’t listen to you better because maybe if I had I wouldn’t have read this book that made my corneas weep.

Tell Dad I love him and can’t wait to see you both soon. Can we go to IKEA when I come up? Thanks.

Love ya,

Jane