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Kendra Tamale has only one plan to escape her past and leave her secrets in Australia so she goes to where she is familiar England.  She rents a flat from Kyle the father of twins Summer and Jaxon. Her plans never included mingling with the family and their problems in fact all she wanted to do was be alone and hide but when Summer and Jaxon show up on her doorstep wearing their hearts on their sleeves she couldn’t say no. Kendra finds herself more and more involved with the children and their father until she becomes a part of the family.

BUT the past is always lurking just a few steps behind and can sneak up on you without warning. Kendra finds herself battling not only her past but the families as well. In the struggle of it all Kendra learns that sometimes it’s better to let it all out and stand up on your own two feet and defend yourself then to continue to let your past control your life and what happens in the future.

Marshmallows For Breakfast wasn’t the best book i ever read but it certainly is worth reading and i would recommend it to anyone who asked. Koomson touches one some hard issues in today’s society and leaves you thinking about your own life and the reality of the horror some people live with everyday. I know after reading this novel i am thankful for the life i have but sad to know that there are people out there suffering. While this is a fiction novel the reality of the truth behind the story is real. Read and it and decide for yourself what you think of it.

Book written by Dorthy Koomson

There comes a time in our lives when we are faced with the reality it’s time to let go but some of us simply cannot face the reality that there is an end and we spend our entire lives trying to find a way to avoid the end. In My Sister’s Keeper this is exactly what Kate’s mother is going through. The only thing she knows is she has to find a way to make her daughter better she has to find a way to keep Kate for as long as she can so she conceives another child Anna through preimplantation genetic diagnosis to be a perfect donor match for Kate who has leukemia. Anna spends her entire life going through procedures to donate to Kate until she is thirteen years old and her mother wants her to donate a kidney for her sister. Anna makes a decision to contact an attorney and sue her parents for rights over her body. She has never once been given the option to decide if she wants to be a donor for Kate and for once she wants to have the option to have a voice. Faced with the consequences she goes ahead with the trial while her sister is in the hospital dying she herself has to make the decision this time if she will or will not donate another part of her body for Kate…

While i understand completely that when you love someone you want to do everything humanly possible to save their lives so you don’t lose them but do you ever stop to actually think about what they want and what they are going through? This book is personal to me not in the ways that are in the book but similar. My mother was very sick my entire life with congenital heart failure. She was in and out of the hospital more times then i can count on my fingers and toes which forced me to grow up fast and realize that you just never know what can happen in life. I never knew what would happen to my mother but i did know that at any time i could lose her so i lived my entire life in fear of just that. She had open heart surgery when i was about 5 or 6. I remember her leaving in the mourning to go to nursing school and telling me she would be back but she didn’t come back. I did not know where my mother was or what happened to her all i knew is that she wasn’t home and something was wrong because everyone was upset. I thought she LEFT me and i would never see her again. My mother had a massive stroke and for the rest of her life would be in and out of the hospital with heart problems and various other health problems. When i was 20 years old my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and it was BAD she had masses of tumors all along her spine and ended up having to have her breast removed because of a massive tumor. She got to the point where the cancer was coming out of her skin. Radiation and chemo was not working but i still held on because I wasn’t ready to let her go. She would make it through she ALWAYS did. 6 months after she was diagnosed she ended up in the hospital she was so weak and so sick that i did not recognize her. She was dying. My father called me and asked me what we should do and explained to me just how sick she was what i failed to see because i didn’t want to face the fact that i was losing her. I cried so hard and so long and i wanted so badly to tell him not to give up if her heart stops bring her back but i loved my mother enough to do what was best for HER not what was best for ME. I miss my mom every single day. The say time heals pain but i think that’s BS it only dulls it a bit but it never stops hurting.

This book reminded me of that. Of how Kate’s mother kept fighting because SHE wasn’t ready to give up her daughter but she never once asked what her daughter wanted. She used one daughter to keep the other alive. Anna wasn’t born out of love she was born out of need and was used her entire life to keep her sister alive. Her mother never once considered how she might feel or even how her Kate felt, just what SHE wanted. She didn’t do it just because she was a bad person it was because she could not face losing her daughter and it became her mission to do whatever she had to. In the end Anna had to be the voice for Kate and for herself. She was so brave at such a young age to stand up for not only her rights but for her sisters. This story will stay with me for a long time.. i won’t ever forget it and i would recommend a hundred times over you read this book because i promise you it will be one of the best books you have ever read.

book written by Jodi Picoult

Wow it has been awhile. I’m so terrible at trying to keep a blog anymore. It is something i want to do but i have to get myself in some sort of routine or else this will just become another site that just exists. I miss doing the book reviews also. I have read some really great books that i have to add to the sidebar.

The Pens are playing tonight and i can’t wait. The Stanely cup finals are sooo nerve racking. I really think this is they’re year

Well Jason is calling me and who knows what for but i better go see what he wants. More later…