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Publisher:
Obadiah Press |
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ISBN:
0-9713266-8-1 |
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Reviewed:
2003 |
Reviewer:
David Leonhardt |
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Notes: www.obadiahpress.com
Reviewer David Leonhardt
is the author of Climb your Stairway to Heaven: the 9
habits of maximum happiness and Don't Get Banned
by the Search Engines
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Forget
Me Knots … from the Front Porch
By Helen
Kay Polaski
It's
not quite Chicken Soup for the Porch-lover's Soul, but
it comes close. Forget Me Knots … from the Front Porch is
a collection of memories, all taking place on the front porch. Helen
Kay Polaski assembled and edited this collection of memories. They
are not her memories, but rather those of about 40 different individuals.
Unlike
the better-known Chicken Soup series, these stories do not necessarily
have a specific lesson, inspiration or motivation behind them. These
are heart-warming, "fuzzy" tales that feel even more like
chicken soup than the Chicken Soup series does.
What
is the appeal of these Forget Me Knot tales? It is best stated on
page 16: "When you were 12, politics was a foreign word and
you had no need to worry about things like bombs and Khrushchev.
Whoever he was." These are little snippets of memories to when
we all were younger and more innocent.
This
is a true anthology, with each story written in the unique style
of its author, making it as well suited for bathroom reading as
for enjoying on the front porch swing.
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