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She Is Sparkling ~ A Collection of Selections Volume I: Short stories of love, loss, and life
She is A Collection of Selections Volume I is a soundtrack of stories chronicling life, love, and loss -- both weight-loss and the loss that comes in navigating the world after losing your mom / best friend. This candid, raw memoir is filled with the people, places and songs that have defined Sam over the last ten years. Join her as she loses half her body weight, navigates heartbreak, and learns the depths of love that can only be understood in grief.
The book is highly recommended loversChange AgentsDreamersSelf-improversAnyone who has experienced loss, and learned the meaning of love in the processShe Is Sparkling reminds readers that with life, as with the perfect soundtrack, the moments that change you most are the ones you least expected.
The book is highly recommended loversChange AgentsDreamersSelf-improversAnyone who has experienced loss, and learned the meaning of love in the processShe Is Sparkling reminds readers that with life, as with the perfect soundtrack, the moments that change you most are the ones you least expected.
205 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2021
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October 12, 2021
This book reads like the diary of a close friend in all the best ways. All of the stories are extremely relatable, especially for anyone who has lost someone important to them. Each story's title is a song and all of the songs are included in a Spotify playlist, which made reading it a multi media experience - this was an especially nice bonus for me because while I enjoy music, I never remember what the song is called or who sings it.
Nonfiction is not my go to genre, mostly because reading is how I decompress. It isn't that I don't enjoy reading about the real world, because I do, it's just that I find it harder to concentrate and less able to just let go of anything bothering me if I'm reading nonfiction. The way this book is organized into short self contained chunks was perfect for my lack of ability to concentrate the same way I can when reading fiction.
Because it isn't one overarching story, although the themes of getting to know yourself and what you really want, how to deal with life when it doesn't look exactly like you planned, and most importantly how all encompassing grief can be are threaded through the entire book, it lends itself to a pick-up-put-down-pick-back-up-again read without feeling like you have to remember what happened before you left off.
It's a great fall read for snuggling up under blankets with a cat and your favorite warm beverage....and maybe some tissues.
Nonfiction is not my go to genre, mostly because reading is how I decompress. It isn't that I don't enjoy reading about the real world, because I do, it's just that I find it harder to concentrate and less able to just let go of anything bothering me if I'm reading nonfiction. The way this book is organized into short self contained chunks was perfect for my lack of ability to concentrate the same way I can when reading fiction.
Because it isn't one overarching story, although the themes of getting to know yourself and what you really want, how to deal with life when it doesn't look exactly like you planned, and most importantly how all encompassing grief can be are threaded through the entire book, it lends itself to a pick-up-put-down-pick-back-up-again read without feeling like you have to remember what happened before you left off.
It's a great fall read for snuggling up under blankets with a cat and your favorite warm beverage....and maybe some tissues.
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