Mariela B itibaren Disley, SK , Canada

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Fans of John Grogan's "Marley and Me" will not be disappointed by his new offering, "The Longest Trip Home." This is a beautiful, funny, sad, moving, remarkable book. "The Longest Trip Home" is described as a prequel to "Marley," and that's accurate, because it tells his story both before and after that rambunctious, lovable dog came into his life. Grogan brings the same sensitivity and gift for detail to these pages that he brought to "Marley." We meet John's parents, siblings, friends and lovers--all the people who have been significant players in his life journey so far. The title has both a literal and a metaphorical meaning. "The Longest Trip Home" refers not only to his trip to his dying father's bedside, but to his struggle to discover his own identity while growing up in a very conservative Catholic household. His parents' faith was central to their lives, but John discovers that he's a born skeptic. Scenes of an idyllic boyhood in Michigan are interposed with John's growing awareness of the chasm between his own values and those of his parents. As a child, he and his siblings accompanied their parents on vacation trips to religious miracle sites while other families visited Disneyland. He dutifully became an altar boy (and joined his friends in consuming the leftover Communion wine). John's rebellion wasn't as dramatic as that of many children of the sixties and seventies. He grew his hair long and smoked marijuana, but that was the extent of his overt actions. The distance between John and his parents grew by degrees, buffered by their unspoken mutual agreement to avoid the values issues that divided them. A pivotal point in the narrative, and in John's life, came when he met his future wife and they moved in together before getting married. His parents were shocked and anguished, asking themselves how they had failed to instill their values into their third son. Although John was troubled by the pain he caused them, he also realized he had to live by his own values and beliefs. The closing segment of the book is the most moving, as John describes his parents entering the twilight of their lives. His mother began a slow descent into dementia after open-heart surgery, but his father remained physically and intellectually vigorous into his 89th year, when he was finally laid low by leukemia that had been discovered a few years before but had lain dormant until that time. Thankfully, those final months provided not only an opportunity for his father to wind up his affairs but for father and son to achieve a reconciliation and an understanding that the bonds that united them were far stronger than the issues that had divided them. Grogan is a gifted writer, with a talent for selecting those memories and stories that illuminate larger truths. Toward the end of the book he observes, "There are moments in life that fade from memory so quickly they are gone almost before they are over. Then there are those that stick, the ones we carry with us through the years like precious parcels of clarity stitched close to our hearts, becoming part of who we are." Thank you, John Grogan, for sharing these precious parcels of clarity.

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