Grace: A Novel | 
pickWell, that flashing warning of reference to the Little Match Girl as I opened this was all about needed to know this was not going to end well. Ohhhh. A few (okay, maybe a flood) tears this month are a good thing, right? …Thank goodness for epilogues.
The only way to overcome fear is to walk through it, and realize it is a shadow of death
We humans protect what is ours to the bitter end, but when it is forcefully taken from us we no longer feel human
so-soIt was a great read, but then halfway through it became a totally different kind of read
pickI thought since we are coming in to the Christmas season I'd read a seasonal book over the weekend. Grace by Richard Paul Evans is a touching story about the good in people, love and loss, and coming of age. I laughed and smiled all through the book, and then I cried hard.
panI really enjoyed Ted Dekker's other novels, and I wanted to like this one. I just didn't and I'm not at all interested in continuing the series.
pickThere should be a gold star option for the book rating. This is my absolute all time favorite book, if you haven't read it I suggest you do. It's a story of love and loss. Grace is a teenage runaway who is pregnant. Her step father has been molesting her for years. Eric takes her in and lets her stay in his clubhouse of rural Utah. They slowly fall in love while police are searching for grace. Eric is living the dream, until that night..
She was a runaway who taught me more about life than anyone has before or since.
pickA touching tale about a 15 year old girl, Madeline Grace, who runs away from home to escape her abusive step-father. She meets Eric, a 14-year old boy, while looking for food in a dumpster, and the latter helps her hide in his outhouse and takes good care of her. The story is a moving tale about the bond shared between the two children and also highlights the issue of destruction of young lives due to the insensitivity and negligence of adults.
I cried so hard, not even fair.
