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Kindle book on sale today - autobiography/memoir

Can't remember if I shared this one or not, or if someone else did.

I read Hannah Coulter - 5 Stars - An elderly lady looks back upon her life. What can I say? I just loved this book and everyone in it. This is the second book that I have read by Wendell Berry, and so far, my favorite. This is the story of Hannah Coulter’s life – her childhood, marriage, family, and about how life goes on. One part that truly resonated with me is her experience and pain when their children leave home. Nothing much happens in this book. No big elaborate story line or plot. This story has reminded me to live in the present and to be thankful for all of God’s blessings. Since the story moves slowly and the themes would not be relatable to the younger reader, I would only recommend this to those who are thirty-five and older. You have to be at a certain time in your life in order to fully appreciate this. Here are some of my favorite quotes. There were many. I’m not going to include them all here. More can be found on my Good Reads review “The chance you had is the life you’ve got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people’s lives, even about your children being gone, but you mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks. I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.” “When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you were young. It is almost like looking down from Heaven. And you see yourself as a young woman, just a big girl really, half awake to the world.” This one is something that my husband and I have talked about before: “Sometimes I imagine another young couple, strong and full of desire, coming quietly into this old house that will be empty again of all that is of any use, and will be stale and silent and dingy with dust, and they will see it shining before them as Nathan and I saw it fifty-two years ago. And I say, ‘Welcome! Love each other. Love this place and use it well. Bless your hearts.’”

Me too! I've got multiple folders now! I have to be honest, coming to this thread is one of the things that I look most forward to every day!