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Confessions of a Breast Cancer Survivor

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Welcome to National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.   Each year at Writer’s Corner  we have participated in Penguin’s Program Read for Pink highlighting the fight against Breast Cancer.   This year we will have the Inaugural year of The Pink Escape:   Escape Into a Good Book and Support Breast Cancer Research.   You will hear for some of your favorite authors with their recommendations and about some of their books.    I share my journey not because it is your typical cancer story.   I didn’t have a lump or mass.   My story started about this time last year.   I went to see a new gynecologist who noticed the left nipple of my breast was turned in.   She asked me if this was normal? At this time she didn’t have my previous history.   I was also dealing with a different problem.   After it was resolved in an office visit.   I asked if this was something to be concerned about.   She said no it could be normal.   I resolved to keep an eye on it.   In November, I had checkups with

Would You Choose Marriage to Make Someone Else Happy?

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Zondervan in 2014 asked some of its most popular authors if they would contribute a story about weddings.   An October Bride is Katie Ganshert’s a story.    It is my first time reading this author. Synopsis:   Emma is retrieving mail for her parents at their home when she finds her dad’s bucket list.   Her father has brain cancer.   So what could she do to please him?   She starts to read the list and comes to the part where her father wants to walk her down the aisle.   Emma is not currently engaged.   She was at the time of her father’s diagnosis to Chase.   She broke it off with him.   Will she find someone to walk her down the aisle? My Thoughts:   Katie Ganshert is a new author for me and one I wanted to read and share with you.   It is October now, but I read this book earlier in the year.   When I was diagnosed with cancer myself.   To read this story was difficult for me.   The story is set in Mayfair Wisconsin.   There are very interesting characters with

Do You Have Any Regrets?

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Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for sending me a copy of Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey.    This copy was sent to me in exchange for an honest review. This story     revolves are both the World War Two time period and the year 2011.   The author has a very interesting story to share. Synopsis:   Jess is trying to find some place to hide while she heals from the latest wounds inflicted by her latest boyfriend.   The house on Greenleaf Lane might just be perfect!   Once inside she finds letters from Dan Rosinski to Stella Thorne.   Dan’s one wish is to find Stella his love of his life before he dies.   In another part of London Will Holt is searching for Nancy Price who is connected to the house on Greenleaf Lane. But how?   How will she figure into the story of Dan and Stella?   Will they reconnect before he passes? My Thoughts:   I very much enjoyed this story.   It had many plot twists.   The story between Jess and Will in 2011 goes well with the story of Dan a