My Beautiful Days

In my opinion memoirs are usually a risky choice to read because I either end up completely loving the book or completely wishing I had never read it in the first place; thankfully The Rules of Inheritance  by Claire Bidwell Smith falls into the former category! In this book, Smith takes you along on her journey of grief from learning in her teens that both of her parents have cancer to their passings and the journey beyond.  She is a woman trying to work her way through this grief and ultimately feeling the "why me?" that we so often can relate to.  She explores the five stages of grief, ultimately working her way to her happy ending. This is a story filled with joy, sadness, confusion, fear, and a little teenage rebellion thrown in there, too!  It's a story about finding yourself in the midst of chaos.  It's a story that I highly recommend reading! Come over to The BlogHer Book Club's Rules of Inheritance page to check out more about this book! **Discl...

Disclosure: I have been compensated for giving this review for BlogHer Book Club, but all of the opinions expressed are my own! "Don't be ridiculous.  I'm exactly like you.  We're all exactly alike, you know." "Sure.  In the way that we're completely different." Those two statements so perfectly encompass the relationship among the three sisters featured in The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown.  These ladies, now adults, grew up in a small college town where their father was a well-known professor with an extreme love of all things Shakespeare (so much that all three of their names came from Shakespeare's works: Rosalind, known as Rose; Bianca, known as Bean; and Cordelia, known as Cordy) and their mother was happy to move through life focusing on the things in front of her as well as being lost in the dreams within her heart.  When the sisters learn that their mother has cancer, they all find themselves once again living under one roof. Sh...

I just finished my book review of Terry McMillian's "Getting to Happy".  Make sure to visit my review here and tell me what you think!