Teachers As Readers
Theme 4
I finally had time to sit down and read an actual book!
Spring break is always good for that. Well over break, I read The Things We do For Love by Kristin
Hannah. I had never read any of her books before, but have many of them due to a half price book store I like to
visit when in Ohio.
The book centers around Angela, a woman who is in the wake
of her divorce. Her husband, Coltan, and she were no longer able to be there
for one another. They fought the battle of infertility and the failure of a
botched adoption. Angela moves home—the Pacific Northwest—where she works with
her mother and two sisters in the family restaurant. Her father had recently
passed away, so the family was battling a failing restaurant.
I found myself making lots of connections to the characters
in the story. Not one specific character in the story, but the family dynamic.
Like Angela, my family is Italian. There are three of us daughters that drive
my parents crazy. The whole time I would read the sections about the sisters
getting together, I could not help but to think of my own sisters. Just like my
sisters and I, each woman in the book is different. They are fighting a
different battle or in a different part of their life.
Over the last four and a half years, since I have moved home
after my own divorce, my sisters and I have become much closer. We also have
developed differently, while dealing with family issues of family members
passing away, weddings, and babies.
It was wonderful to read a book about a family—with a
similar dynamic to my own.
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