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Saints for All Occasions 3 1/2 stars

A family saga, written well, with a deep family story filled with secrets, heartache and yes love.

Nora and Theresa, young girls, Irish immigrants, come to America alone to escape the poverty of Ireland in the 1950's. Nora the oldest has no desire to marry her childhood friend. Theresa anticipates a large adventure. Their life in America becomes unsettled and the 2 girls part ways, and not in a good way. Through out the story we meet the family Nora had and we see how secrets kept can disrupt and unsettle a family. In the end, can it be too late to be forgiven?

This should have been a 4 star read for me-for some reason the sadness in it just overwhelmed too much, At another juncture I would have set it down for a later time. Thus, the difficulty of challenges, I suppose.

If you love a good family story and are in the right frame of mind to digest the sadness that envelopes the 2 main characters, than this is a great book. Nora and Theresa are fine characters and J. Courtney Sullivan writes a fine story.

Joanne, I know that for me, my mood affects how I react to a book. For example, I have a book in the house that I was really looking forward to reading, but it's about grief and I'm in no mood to read about grief right now.

I really liked "Saints" when I read it, as the characters felt so real to me. But, I do think that the relationship between the two sisters was a sad one.

In a different thread, we talked about you're not being able to find the right book to read. Ironically, I'm now in the same position. I've started and put down a number of books - they're not appealing to me.

Yes, being a mood reader is a bear sometimes...challenges make it harder, but I love to play the games-lol.

This is one of my favourite books of all time.

And I am thinking, maybe I should take it off my TBR!

No Amy, don't-I think you will like it. It is just the mood I have been lately, where nothing is appealing to me. Picking up a fast paced fantasy next and hoping that swings me out this rut.

Ok you’re in time it stays!!! But if I go look it up, and I see a bunch of views talking about the sadness of these two main characters, I think I might be done.