Honey Nugs Tribe 2015 Reading Challenge: Clare- The Wednesday Letters

#4 A Book Your Friend Loves

I'm sitting in Angie's living room right now (what, what!!!) We've got to spend the last week getting up to whatever shenanigans we wanted. Trust me, we are having a blast. We had really loose goals for this week. Two of the most important were to read our #4 book for this challenge and get our long planned and awaited best friend tattoos.

As I was packing to fly out to Nebraska, I sent her pictures of my favorites: all my Mitch Albom books, Sense and Sensibility, Little Women, Jane Eyre, etc. She picked The Five People You Meet in Heaven, I brought Tuesdays with Morrie anyway ;) She told me she'd pull some out and I could pick when I got here. She had a big stack herself, but she seemed most excited about this one.

I really enjoyed this book. It was well written and paced. Of course, I was mad when the old couple died in the first chapter, but Angie joked, "That's the whole premiss, Clare!" It is, but I wasn't thrilled early on. A sister and her two brothers lose both their parents in one night, and as they are gathering back together, they discover thousands of letters their father wrote their mother over the years. He wrote her one letter a week, each Wednesday beginning with their honeymoon. In these letters were funny stories and a HUGE family secret.

I didn't want to put this book down. I was on the edge of my seat about how each of the characters' stories would be resolved, and I wasn't disappointed... although, I didn't guess right either, lol. This was an inspiring love story, not just focused on marital love, but family love and Christian love too. I really enjoyed reading it. Especially while enjoying the luxury of sitting across from Angie on the couch and sharing a blanket.

And... yes, we did get those aforementioned best friend tattoos as well :)