Half Finished
July 28th, 2020. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads.
In bestselling author Lauraine Snelling’s novel, a group of women realize that life is full of half-finished relationships and projects. However, they discover that the outcome is not as important as the journey.
Recognizing how common it is for crafters to start many projects and finish few, a group of women join together to form a guild–Unfinished Projects Anonymous–to keep each other on track and accountable. Three friends are tasked with the job of home visits for their guild. They are laughingly called the Cartel as they do visits to snoop around craft rooms and knitting baskets to report on progress for the members. The guild has even expanded to checking on half-trained dogs and half-weeded gardens.
Over the course of the story, this ensemble of women discover that much of life is half-finished–relationships, the raising of children, even our very relationship with the Lord. And that may be perfectly fine.
ISLAND BREEZES
This book is about people with UFOs – UnFinished Objects. The story is full of these people.
Are you someone with UFOs? You probably are if you knit, crochet, do any kind of needlework or crafts. I am.
Sad to admit, I have UFOs. Lots of them all packed away in plastic bins. All neatly stacked and taking up space in my closet. Hidden away so I don’t have frequent attacks of guilt.
There are some interesting characters in this book, as well as some interesting UFOs. They left me wanting to join their guild so that I might have enough accountability to spur me on to finishing at least some of my UFOs. Sometimes I feel as if I’m also only half finished.
Thank you, Ms Snelling, for this book which left me wanting more.
***Book provided without charge by Canaan of the Hachette Book Group.***
Award-winning and best selling author Lauraine Snelling began living her dream to be a writer with her first published book for young adult readers, Tragedy on the Toutle, in 1982. She has since continued writing more horse books for young girls, adding historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction for adults and young readers to her repertoire. All told, she has over eighty books published with more than 4 million copies in print.
Shown in her contemporary romances and women’s fiction, a hallmark of Lauraine’s style is writing about real issues of forgiveness, loss, domestic violence, and cancer within a compelling story. Her work has been translated into Norwegian, Danish, and German, and she has won the Romantic Times Career Achievement award for Inspirational Fiction, the Silver Angel Award for An Untamed Land and a Romance Writers of America Golden Heart for Song of Laughter.
As a sought after speaker, Lauraine encourages others to find their gifts and live their lives with humor and joy. Her readers clamor for more books more often, and Lauraine would like to comply … if only her paintbrushes and easel didn’t call quite so loudly.
Lauraine and her husband, Wayne, have two grown sons, and live in the Tehachapi Mountains with a watchdog Basset named Winston. They love to travel, most especially in their forty-foot motor coach, which they affectionately deem “a work in progress”.