one day – one book
One day is all it took for me to read life on the refrigerator door by Alice Kuipers
*If you cannot tell, I sort of let the my reviews pile up. It is not my fault that the books I choose were too fabulous to put down! We will soon return to the regular scheduled program the randomness that is my life. This is the last one for a while. I highly doubt I will get through Animal Vegetable Miracle in just one day. Back to this book
From the back cover: a deeply touching story told through a series of notes left on the kitchen fridge. Fifteen-year-old Claire and her mother are preoccupied with their busy lives, and rarely in the same room at the same time. But then a crisis breaks into their lives – a momentous change that will redefine their relationship and unfold through their notes left on the refrigerator door. Moving and unforgettable, Alice Kuipers’ first novel delivers universal lessons about love in a wonderfully simple and poignant narrative.
This book made me cry – make that sob – at the end. I sat in the parking lot at school yesterday as big fat tears fell down my face and I did not even have the sense to wipe them away. I am not sure if I can explain just how much this story touched my soul. It is strange to call it a story because the format is not the usual novel format. Each page contains one note – the note left either by the mother or the daughter on the refrigerator door. Sometimes, they take up the whole page but most times, it is just a few lines. There is no background to the story nor are there explanations. The story just unfolds through the notes.
Perhaps it is this lack of filler information that allowed me to be so emotional. Because the book does not tell you everything, I filled in the blanks myself and had to use my imagination to figure out how the characters must be feeling. My imagination did not have to work to hard with this one. Again, I don’t want to say too much but I know this book touched me so because I have a teenage daughter, we write notes to each other and well, I have never been in the same position as the mother but I have had a…..what words to use…. similar recent concern. This book made me face that possibility and I think more importantly made me do something about it. That is all I have to say about that.
This book is good even if it was so short. It left me wanting more and any book that can make me cry like a 3 year old who has lost her teddy bear gets a 5 out of 5 for me.
pages: 220 – I am not counting these because of the format mentioned above.
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That sounds really interesting! I’ll have to see if I can get it from my library.
This sounds very good. I’ll have to pick it up!