What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. What if you suffered amnesia and couldn't recall the last 10 years of your life? You don't recall the birth of your children, the petty things that wore on relationships or how you subtly changed from a carefree person deeply in love with your husband to an unhappy, inpatient woman obsessed with routines. Moriarty is an expert storyteller, especially with capturing the inner dialogue we all have. I'm a big fan of her books and this did not disappoint.
The Gift of Forgiveness by Katherine Schwarzenegger is a compilation of personal stories of those who have both given and received forgiveness. The stories range from Elizabeth Smart who was abducted as a teen and raped almost daily for nine months, a man who lost his wife and child in a car accident, a man who would do anything to be worthy of his wife's forgiveness following an affair, a man abused by his Catholic priest, the mother of one of the Columbine high school massacre shooters, the mother of one of the children killed in the Sandy Hook elementary shooting, to a woman who hid in a neighbor's home for 100 days while her family was murdered during the Rwandan genocide. Key takeaways about forgiveness:
- It is a choice, for some it must be practiced consistently, for others it is given easily
- It is personal - every journey to forgiveness, way in which it is experienced is unique
- It is a gift you give yourself to free yourself from others' power over you
To Be Read queue:
- The Gown by Jennifer Robson
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
- The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter
- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
