Gina's Corner

The Time Travelers Wife - A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.

The annunciation of Francesca Dunn by Hallowell, Janis Francesca Dunn, struggling like any teenager to find her place in the world, is seen by a homeless man, Chester, who suddenly has a vision of her as the Holy Virgin. When he sees her helping out at a local cafe, he falls to his knees before her. Chester, either insane or a visionary, spreads the word of her holiness and crowds come to offer devotion to her. Francesca's mother, a scientist and disbeliever, tries to shield her from it all and get her psychotherapy. Others offer Francesca their aid or seek to profit from her celebrity. Francesca gets caught up in the frenzy and begins to wonder if the adoration was really meant for her.



The Virgin Blue - deals with two women living centuries apart but linked by common memories and feelings. Isabelle du Mourin is a sixteenth-century housewife who, along with her husband and children, must flee her hometown in France to seek religious freedom in Switzerland. Ella Turner (Tournier) is an American midwife who has recently moved to southern France with her architect husband Rick. Upon moving to France, Ella decides to trace her family history. Armed with nothing more than the address of a distant relative in Switzerland, she begins her quest to find out where she came from. The closer she gets to the truth, the more her search is hampered by nightmares of a loud noise and the color blue - memories that her distant relative Isabelle lived with four hundred years earlier. Softly written and vividly realistic, "The Virgin Blue" questions who we all are, and what it is that haunts our dreams. It is the quest of two women to find their identity and destiny, regardless of their circumstances.

Finished this book while on vacation. A mother/daughter relationship that brings many messages into the theme. Amy attracted to older men and her mother who finally confesses the truth about Amy's father. A book that makes you think about what you think you want to be, but ultimately about who you really are. The friends that matter, and how friendships enhance your life.

I liked this book in all it's simplicity. It made me think about my own life and who I am, and how we script our kids to become like us - just by being who we are. Like it or not.

This book is a must read. The Mormon faith is one of the fastest growing cults, I mean religion, and there's almost no proof or basis for sanity or reason in the faith.

The book is really about Fundamentalist Mormons. Those who broke away from Mormonism when the polygomy rule was abandoned. Mormons believe that you can directly speak to God, and that he speaks back. They believe that laws made by people can be broken, and after being thrown out of NY, MO and IL, they landed mostly in Utah, where they could be far away enough from the public to create their own cities and do their own things. Utah Mormon territory is run by Mormon based post office, Mormon police force, Mormon city workers. They believe that you can have lots of wives, lots of kids, live off the state, and if God tells you to murder, why then you must.

This book is about a few men who murdered a brother's wife and child because she was disagreeing with her husband's Fundamentalist ways. She ended up divorcing the guy, and the result was murder.

It's an eye opener, and while most Mormon's don't kill, the book lets you into their world and mind. Quite fascinating. Even though it's disturbing.