Alexandre Salles Salles itibaren Charlotte Harbor, FL, Yhdysvallat itibaren Charlotte Harbor, FL, Yhdysvallat

Ten Miles Past Normal is quirky and easy read. Janie, the main character is easy to relate to, and her adventures are realistic. The secondary characters, such as Monster, are wonderful and add so much to the story. Another thing that I like is that Janie's mom is present in her life, and portrayed as a "normal" if a bit clueless and a tad annoying at times mom. I think its a good lesson how she realizes how other's opinions and thoughts are dictating her opinion and I liked how she accepted who she was. This is a sweet contemporary, and I really enjoyed.

I've read this book twice and often give it away. The first section, kind of a pre-amble to the story, turns people off. It was meant to give an extended generational importance to the plot line. Once you get past that, the rest of the book is unoffensive in anyway (I should hope). This author made her fame with How to make an American Quilt which then was made into a major motion picture.In my opinion, the Passion Dream Book is better. It is about two artists, he and she, that spend a lifetime trying to do their art. Their passion to do photography, paint, sculpt etc takes them to Harlem Renaissance dinner parties as well as Paris during the war. Although their love relationship has to take second place to their art passions in order for it to survive. Often the storyline is bittersweet. I've told many people that this is my signature book....that I wish I would have written it. Friends have told me that the book isn't as great as I think it is. One friend thinks that the author threw everything out the window at the end because she didn't know how to end it. I think she ended it in the open-ended don't-make-any-decisions way that many stories (and movies) end in now a days. Let me know what your thoughts were when you finished.