Hello, fellow bookworms!
This week, our fabulous Marketing & Promotions Manager Richelle Boyd brings us three books featuring legendary female characters whose stories have captivated us for years, and I’m shining a spotlight on area author Linda Allen Blue, whose incredible story of resilience and hope will both break your heart and inspire you to take on life with a new perspective.
Living a Charmed Life: How to Feel and Deal to Heal by Linda Allen Blue
Linda Allen Blue lost four of her immediate family members within three years. Her two sisters, Gayle and Karen, died four months apart in 2010, each having battled cancer. Her mother and father followed. Through it all, she also experienced romantic breakups, the loss of her beloved dog, and being there for friends who were handling their own tragedies. Written over 20 years, Living a Charmed Life is Blue’s chronicle of her family and friends, her grief, her hope, her healing, her bad days and good days.
With so much grief and heartache to carry, anyone would find it understandable if Blue were to find the struggle too much to bear, or to live her life fearful that the same circumstances that befell her loved ones might happen to her next. But despite it all, Blue’s indomitable spirit and true love for life shine through the pages as she describes the importance of letting yourself grieve and processing emotions, while ultimately choosing to live your life not in a cage of anxiety but with passion and fearlessness. I particularly loved the way Blue writes about her “angels,” her loved ones both gone from this earth and still here…