Play Book Tag discussion

Granted, I am not usually one who loves a book which ends neatly tied up in a knot and is all sweetness and light, but when a worldwide pandemic is on it may just be the right time to read a few of those. The Garden Of Lost Memories by (you gotta love her name)Ruby Hummingbird is one such book.

Elsie is an old maid an a bit grumpy and peculiar. Billy is her 10 year-old new neighbor who she has agreed to babysit one day a week. Billy has his own problems and he doesn't want to live in this new town. He doesn't understand why his mom has moved here away from his dad.

The book is told in alternating chapters, of Elsie and Billy. The third person perspective is used with Elsie, but the first person perspective is used with Billy. I'm not sure that this was the best choice because the author seems better able to grasp Elsie, than she does Billy.

This is not a great book and there is a bit that doesn't quite jibe with me, but this was a book which I could read through quickly and not feel to weighed down and yet manage to feel and empathize and feel better for it in the end.