Give Thanks for Book Bloggers #FF

Finding the Feature & Follow blog hop today seemed so appropriate for this following Thanksgiving weekend! I have been giving thanks for many blessings the past few days and now this new blog hop gives me reason to share a bit of that thankfulness.


I give thanks for the hosts of this book blogger hop:

 

Parajunkee's View

Alison Can Read

 

 

This weeks Feature & Follow Question:

 

Are you thankful for a fellow blogger? Tell us about him or her.

 

I Follow and Feature: Sheila Deeth

I have been following Sheila Deeth's blog and writings for a few years now. I first ran across Sheila on the Gather.com community. Naturally, we are now hooked up via our blogs, Facebook, email, and best of all - via snailmail.

Best of all for me as I am fortunate enough to have recently received the latest book publication by Sheila Deeth: Divide by Zero. My review of this book will be coming soon!

Sheila accomplished something no other author has been able to do in that she managed to get me to read and review an eBook! Don't miss my review of Flower Child!

Hook up with this author, read her writings, and read her many beautifully written book reviews. I promise you will not be disappointed by this book blogger.

Are you hooked up with Feature & Follow?
Have you read Sheila Deeth's books?
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Flower Child by Author Sheila Deeth, Book Review

I am deeply honored to be a part of the Flower Child Blog Tour and wish to thank Sheila Deeth for this opportunity to read and review her eBook, which is my first reading of an eBook. I am not the least bit disappointed in Sheila's talent as a storyteller, nor in this non-print version of Flower Child. However, I would be thrilled to see this book in print one day.

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But is Angela Real? queries Megan, mother of this, her unborn daughter, as she learns just how hard it can hurt to be Mother.

The reader is drawn by the double-edged sword of emotion as Flower Child author Sheila Deeth embraces the depths of motherhood, the hauntings — of love and of loss — of child.

"You suffer so much, you humans," and "You have to keep testing the boundaries, " says a garden angel in her tale, planted, perhaps, between heaven and hell. "You're never satisfied."

You give them chance after chance don't you? You forgive them over and over again. You pick them up and set them on their way. Being a mother, a parent, a guardian, comes with rights and responsibilities.

After a time, mother Megan wonders does it mean I'm getting better because I don't cry for her now? Or am I going crazy because I tidy her room in dreams? At what point in the mourning process are we to no longer shed rivers of tears? Are we mad as hatters for allowing our minds to dwell in a dream with the dead? To some it may seem so; to others, though, it may be deemed a realm of real life.

Reality is all-inclusive: what has been, what is, and what will be. Consider this statement by writer Philip K. Dick: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The greatest motherly wonder of all comes from the author as she ponders an un-born: I wondered if maybe it's love that makes souls, and making love makes flesh. Maybe no one really loved him.

Storytelling based on reality rarely fails to grab the reader by the hallowed hauntings of the heart. Author Sheila Deeth succeeds in tugging our heartstrings in the bittersweet beauty of the story of her Flower Child.

And, make no mistake — Angela is real.

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I hope that if you have not been following this month-long tour, that you will visit the Sheila Deeth Blog, as well as the daily blog tour listings. You may also wish to visit a previous post here at Ruthi Reads where I share an excerpt from Flower Child; one which captured me from the beginning of the book.

I received no compensation for the review of this book. I received a PDF version to read for review purposes.

WoW 100 Words for the Flower Child

Today is a first for me — I am reading an eBook — me, the die-hard lover of books in print. I share 100 words with you from page 2 of  Flower Child by Sheila Deeth:

"...died. I slept and screamed and wept for her, my little girl, and drove my husband to distraction. Then, in a moment's incautious clarity, I was cured. What happened was I found those childhood dreams weren't really so far from the truth, and I don't care if you don't believe me. Mom thinks I'm mad, Uncle Malcolm tries to humor me, and David just pretends not to hear a word I say. But there are more things in heaven and hell than human eyes and ears can tell, and I first stopped crying the day I met my angel, Angela."



As part of the Flower Child Book Tour, I will be posting my book review of this title on October 31st.

I would love to have you join me each week in the blog hop, WoW Weekly 100 Words, sharing exactly 100 words from a book you are currently reading. Add the hop button and link to your blog post and add your post to the linky list provided.

Don't Miss the Flower Child Blog Tour

I am excited for my author friend, Sheila Deeth. Her recent eBook release, Flower Child, is now available for purchase and is on tour throughout cyberspace.

Visit Flower Child Blog Tour for the blogs and links hosting this tour throughout the entire month of October.

Ruthi Reads is proud to be a part of this book tour! This will be my first eBook read and review. I feel as though I am being converted! NOT! I love the printed page too much, but I do find this book title and theme interesting enough to read off the computer screen.

Just for you and your Flower Child, Sheila!