Being there
Mary Jo Putney
Thanks for your wryly humorous post about how some friends vanish with
illness, and other give far more than one would have guessed. I'm so glad to
hear that you're doing well. May that continue for several more decades.
And to make this a sort of relevant post--as both a writer and a human being,
I have gained much by hearing others discuss serious illness, a topic that is
often avoided in "real" life.
Mary Jo, whose next book THE WILD CHILD, seems set for August '99.
Zahara Medina
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Oh, great, now we can all write down the date and think, "hey! It's
eleven months to it! But it could have been worse, it could have been
a whole year, woah!" <vwg>
I hope our fingernails will survive the excitment. Happily there are
such wonderful authors like Jo and Karen to read by in the middle! ;)
On another topic, I just finished reading THE DE BURGH BRIDE, by
Deborah Simmons and... loved it ^^
I usually kind of finish wearied out of the heroines who can't trust
their shadows, but in this case, I had some reservations when I started
reading but they all flew away quite fast!
It was a great surprise to see the heroine coming to the conclusion that
maybe not everything was as dark as she imagined _all by herself_. I loved
that the hero realices his wife is not like she is because she is a lunatic
or thought it a good joke (well, the man is a little bit hard-headed, but
we come to understand his reasons for being so). I like the fact that it's
not only the heroine who learns other people's life is not necess. like
hers
but also the hero learns exactly the same.
I remember while reading "This is all I ask" that by the XXth time she
backed away I was ready to trash something over her head (I loved the
book, too), and in "Taming the Wolf" I was ready to drown the heroine
when she was still thinking of runing away from the hero mere fifty pages
before the end.
But nothing of that happened in this book, and man, am I glad! ;)
On the other hand, it really bothers me how on the hell nobody thought
about why she killed the previous husband when it was quite obvious ^^;;;
Guess nothing it perfect! *g*
Look at me, raving about a book in here. Must be my first! ^o^ Anyway,
I recomend this book for all Simmons' fans (and medieval's too) and as
a plus, the cover is one of the most lovely ones I have seen in a long
time! Just his hand holding hers. ^^
Zahara Medina ^^
zah...@washuu.swb.de
http://www.swb.de/~zahara/
Karen E. Harbaugh
does bring out the truth about people, doesn't it? When my dad had
cancer, we learned very quickly who the family's real friends were. And
you also learn it's really true that what goes around, comes around. My
dad helped out a friend and neighbor when she had cancer, driving her to
and from the hospital when her husband couldn't get off work--that's the
kind of guy he was. When he got his cancer, they were there for him
whenever he needed them, to the very end. And now, they check in on my
mom every once in a while, because they know that my dad would have done
it for them if the situation were reversed.
It's rather awful, though, that it takes something like this to find out
who will stick with you and who won't.
I'm glad you're in remission, and many prayers for you that you stay in
remission.
Karen Harbaugh (kehar...@juno.com)
Mid-January 1999: CUPID'S KISS, Signet Regency