Book #99 |
Book: The Lost Husband | Author: Katherine Center | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 304 | Duration: 10/28/25 – 10/29/25 (2 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★☆ | Genres: fiction, romance, family | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Widow moves from her mother’s house to her aunt’s house. 🖌6-word review: Family dysfunction abounds. Excellent dialogue tags. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “And there it was, the chasm I came to over and over with my own kids, that separated the things I knew from what they could understand. The vast difference between what you could learn from experience and what you could teach.” | |||
| Description:* “Dear Libby, It occurs to me that you and your two children have been living with your mother for — Dear Lord! — 2 whole years, and I’m writing to see if you’d like to be rescued.” The letter comes out of the blue, and just in time for Libby Moran, who, after the sudden death of her husband, Danny, went to stay with her hypercritical mother. Now her crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape, a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Before she can talk herself out of it, Libby is packing the minivan, grabbing the kids, and hitting the road.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I very much enjoyed this book. It contains a lot of life lessons in terms of perspective, love, happiness, and family, and it does a good job of “showing” them instead of “telling” them. The best thing about the writing (which I actually listened to, since it was an audiobook) was the generous use of dialogue tags in it. I never once thought, “Wait a minute, who’s saying this?” | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
