I hope you all read it, and enjoy it as much as I did!
God Bless,
Dana
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I've loved books and reading since I was very little, but I'm not normally a "book review person". I might tell a friend or two, but I think the last book review/book report type thing I've written was probably in high school. However, after just finishing my friend, Stephanie's book A Single Bead, I just had to share in a more public way! I'll try really, really hard not to spoil anything. It all starts when 16 year old Katelyn finds a bead from her grandmother's rosary a year after her grandmother's plane crashes, at a memorial. Her grandmother had prayed the rosary nearly constantly, and had a special rosary made with all of her children's initials on a bead, and then their spouses', and then their children's. Not only does Kate find A bead, she finds HER bead. Right away, as she's trying to process her discovery, the family goes to eat at a real restaurant in Danville, Indiana, the Mayberry Cafe, which I've driven past many times and eaten at once or twice. There, she meets Chelsea, an employee who sees Kate's bead, and mentions a similar bead that she found and gave to a friend. After talking to Chelsea later in more detail, Kate finds out about a miracle connected with the bead, and attempts to find more beads. Meanwhile, her mother is not very strong in her faith, and her dad appears to be an atheist, so her cousins, aunts, and priest uncle help her in her search the most, although, her dad does help her create flyers. Her mother is battling severe depression, and Kate hopes to find her mother's bead, thinking that it will boost her faith, and help her get back to being herself. Several more miracles are found, and by the end of the book, I pretty much had tears in my eyes the whole time. It's really, a very beautiful, inspiring book! The ending begs for a sequel, which I hope Stephanie will be able to write at some point. It's aimed at teenagers, but this almost 35 year old LOVED it! It does deal with depression, and there is a small section about drugs, so if you have younger kids, I would read it first (honestly, I would anyway, it's AWESOME!), and decide for yourself if you think they could handle it, or maybe read it together and discuss. I'm just bursting with pride that my daughter's godmother wrote just a beautiful book! I'm so proud of her, and so happy for her that she was able to get it close enough to published that she didn't have to do much other than advertise before her husband's heart attack.
I hope you all read it, and enjoy it as much as I did! God Bless, Dana
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