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Chargement... The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres and a Familypar Jeanne Marie Laskas
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Good story, but very different than "50 Acres & a Poodle." This one is much more serious, far fewer chuckles than the previous book. "Exact Same Moon" details the parenthood search the couple gets involved in. Still don't care a whole lot for Laskas' writing style...she comes out sounding like an emotionally unstable person who has to talk a lot to cover her nervousness during any dialog in the book. If you are a pet person, you should probably read these 2 books, plus "hit by a farm." I'm not a pet person, which is one reason I didn't think these were super books. ( ) I haven't read Laskas's first book (Fifty Acres and a Poodle), but now I really want to. I got totally caught up in her story about what it means to be a daughter and a mother, to be caught up in a circle of love, and to appreciate the gift of family no matter how that gift comes to you. Some of my favorite quotes from the book: What is a story if not a legitimate, sanctioned escape from the here-and-now? A new here-and-now to climb into, like a basket of a hot-air balloon. A free vacation! George stops, looks me in the eye, gives me the time and space to imagine what happened next. Because time and space are what the imagination feeds off of. Time and space, I tell you, are the actual Kibbles'n Bits of the imagination. We talk about wanting. We talk about how the wanting in life might just be the smallest piece of the whole happiness equation. Either way you look at it. If you think about people who go through life wanting the next thing, and the next, and each time they get what they want, they want what's next. There's no happiness in that. There's no life in that. There's just the tease. "Then if you look at it the other way," Alex says. "Me with Peter and Amy. Or me with this farm. How does anybody know what they want before they have it?" aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In Fifty Acres and a Poodle, Jeanne Marie Laskas described how she survived her first hilariously tumultuous year at Sweetwater Farm. Now she returns with a funny, touching, and personal new memoir of what happens after your dream comes true... With a picture-postcard farm, a wonderful marriage, two mules, and a new refrigerator that spits crushed ice, what more can a girl ask for? That's precisely the question Jeanne Marie asks herself as she and Alex settle into their new life at Sweetwater Farm. Two years ago they left the city behind for a life filled with the practical, often comical, lessons of living close to the land--and they never looked back. Yet when her strong-willed mom is hospitalized with a sudden and mysterious paralysis, Jeanne Marie rushes home to Philadelphia and her extended, sometimes chaotic, but always loving family. It's there that she realizes what is still missing from her life: a family of her own. Now it's a matter of bringing up the subject to her husband, Alex, fifteen years older and with adult children of his own, who seems terrified that she's thinking of adopting a Chihuahua. With warmth, wisdom, and unfailing humor, Laskas tells the poignant story of her search for motherhood--and what happens when a woman risks happily-ever-after for something even more precious. As she tends to her own ailing mother, Jeanne Marie discovers that the challenges and rewards of living with Mother Nature pale in comparison to those awakened by the nature of mothering. The Exact Same Moon is filled with hilarious and heartwarming vignettes of people and a way of life you'll be glad you met. From "borrowing" sheep to help mow the lawn and sitting in on the racy hay jokes at the Agway Equine Clinic, to befriending the notorious old lady who holds the water rights to their future pond, corrupting the neighbors with satellite TV, and learning the fine art of going a-calling, Laskas proves once again that laughter, love, and wisdom are truly homegrown. From the Hardcover edition. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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