Today’s Game of Life reviews a new anthology; Stevie Turner invited writers and bloggers to contribute. She gave them questionaires about significant life events. I slipped in to this at the last moment, thinking our wedding by the elevated section of the M4 motorway without any parents present would not be significant enough! However I was invited to join in. You can read about some very different weddings in our family. If you want to buy the book all proceeds go to cancer charities. We are all interested in other people’s lives and this is a rare invitation to share some very diffferent lives from your own. Here is the Goodreads review I posted.
A simple idea; ask volunteers to answer a series of questions about a life experience. There are some experiences that most of us have, others that are certainly outside our realm. Even the same sort of experience will be different according to the person, where they live, the other folk in their lives. I loved the honesty of Abbie Johnson Taylor on becoming a carer – would she do it all again? I enjoyed the positivity of Lucy V. Hay on being a teenage mother. Readers may find comfort in knowing other people have undergone the same. We may face events in the future and remember how others in this book dealt with it. But whether you are facing illness or an addiction, one of the messages that seems to be common is that there are some things you have to want to do yourself, you need to help yourself before others can help you.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44667522-understanding
Thank you for taking part and for such a great review!
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You’re welcome Stevie – I can think of plenty more life events for another volume!
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Ha ha, my next one will be the winners from my monthly short story competition, but I haven’t got enough yet.
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Alas Amazon rejected my review!
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Oh. They can’t take it from your blog site though!
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This looks amazing! And you were part of this? How incredibly interesting. I will definitely put this on my reading list. Wonderful idea!
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Thanks, yes, I’m one of the less dramatic lives!
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Thanks for this, love reading real-life stories.
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Yes, so do I.
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Thanks for your review. I enjoyed your part of it. It is a great collection with a variety of life events, happy and sad.
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