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Showing posts with label The Comforts of Home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Comforts of Home. Show all posts
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
November Giveaway Hop - Win The Comforts of Home by Jodi Thomas!
This hop is being hosted by I am a Reader, Not a Writer and Tristi Pinkston. It will run from Tuesday, Nov 8 through Friday, Nov 11th. It officially starts at midnight, but I wanted to make sure that rafflecopter worked before I went to bed! There are over 200 blogs giving away things that a reader, author or blogger would enjoy!
About the book: In Harmony, Texas, twenty-year-old Reagan Truman has found her place and her family. But with her uncle taken ill and her friend Noah lost and disheartened with his life, Reagan is afraid of ending up alone again -- and she's not the only one. Harmony seems to be full of people yearning to make a connection. Like funeral director Tyler Wright, who longs to take his relationship with his friend Kate to the next level, but doesn't know how. And Ronelle Logan, a woman frightened of everyday human interactions, until she meets an angry, lonely man -- someone just like her.
When a terrible storm threatens the town, the residents of Harmony are forced to really think about what they truly want. Because making the connections they so desperately desire mean putting their hears at risk.
You can read my review here. Please give rafflecopter time to load if it is not showing up.
Start Hopping!
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Jodi Thomas on The Comforts of Home
With writing it’s always been that way for me. I don’t really feel like I create characters, I feel like I just meet people and get to know them. If I’m lucky they tell me their story. When I meet people who read and love my books I always like to hug them. After all, we have friends in common.
In THE COMFORTS OF HOME I wrote about people who probably live all around us but we never take the time to know. One was Ronelle Logan. She’d lived and worked at the post office without anyone noticing her. She solved the funeral home’s crossword puzzles before she handed over the magazines, but no one complained. Tyler Wright, the funeral director, just brought her a huge crossword puzzle book. He was a kind man who tried to help everyone he came across. In the lives of these people now and then, wonder happens, brightening the world around.
In a closing note, I’d like to add that you are going to love a new character I introduce. He’s just a kid (17) with long hair, and a dream to make it big in the music world. We’ll be watching him grow up and fall in love several times before he figures women out.
Come along with me to Harmony. We’ll have a grand visit with the people there.
Wishing you much love and laughter in your life,
Jodi Thomas
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The Comforts of Home by Jodi Thomas (Book review)
Title: The Comforts of HomePublisher: Penguin
About the book: In Harmony, Texas, twenty-year-old Reagan Truman has found her place and her family. But with her uncle taken ill and her friend Noah lost and disheartened with his life, Reagan is afraid of ending up alone again -- and she's not the only one. Harmony seems to be full of people yearning to make a connection. Like funeral director Tyler Wright, who longs to take his relationship with his friend Kate to the next level, but doesn't know how. And Ronelle Logan, a woman frightened of everyday human interactions, until she meets an angry, lonely man -- someone just like her.
When a terrible storm threatens the town, the residents of Harmony are forced to really think about what they truly want. Because making the connections they so desperately desire mean putting their hears at risk.
My thoughts: I really like the way that Jodi brings her characters to life. You learn a little more about some of the characters that were introduced in the first book, Welcome to Harmony, and get to know some other characters like Ronelle Logan.
I really liked Ronny, she was probably my favorite character in this book. She starts out as this lonely girl, who just sort of goes along in the world, trying to stay hidden - and either being verbally abused by her mother or virtually ignored. Out of chance, she delivers the mail to a wheelchair bound man one day who truly sees her, and a friendship is born. It was really neat to see her start to come out of her shell, sort of like a turtle, very slow, thinking she might pull her head back in at any time.
Then there is Autumn, who is found at the cemetary by none other than the local mortician. She is very sick, very nearly frozen, and newly pregnant. With no where to go and an abusive boyfriend looking for her, she takes up residence at the funeral home and soon has created a new atmosphere there with her spot-on cooking and unobtrusive ways.
These are just two of the inhabitants of Harmony that you get to know - and these are people that you want to know. It makes you want to live in a small town, where the comforts of home can be found in more places than just where you grew up.
~I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author in exchange for my review.~
If this sounds like a good book - please watch for the Giveaway Hop Nov 8 - 11th, (hosted by I Am a Reader, Not a Writer and Tristi Pinkson), where I will be giving away a copy!
Books in the Harmony series:
Welcome to Harmony - Book 1
Somewhere Along the Way - Book 2
The Comforts of Home - Book 3
Publisher/Publication Date: Penguin, Nov 1, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-425-24448-7
320 pages
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