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April 1, 2012, 258 voters
April 2012
I am just back from a week on the Outer Banks, where, though I worked a lot more than I planned, I also read a number of wonderful books. It’s shaping up to be a fabulous year for fiction with a number of books already slated to be added to my Bookreporter.com Bets On list for 2012. I blogged about the first group of books that I read here, and a second blog with the second part of my week’s reading will be posted on Friday.
Bestselling author Eileen Goudge has always been fascinated with discovering people's motives. In her new novel, The Replacement Wife, she asks a difficult question --- what would you do if you were told you had only six months to live? --- and weaves it into a story of love, family, and fate. Here, she reflects on the experience that inspired her to write this story and shares some of her philosophy about marriage, life, and love.
Claire Bidwell Smith lives in Los Angeles with her husband Greg Boose and their daughter. Claire is an experienced therapist specializing in grief and the author of THE RULES OF INHERITANCE, her new memoir about the death of both her parents when she was a young adult.
This book was reviewed on Bookreporter.com and is one of our Bookreporter.com Bets On picks. In this post, Claire discusses her decision to take a nonlinear approach to her memoir, and she also shares her own experiences with the five Stages of Grief.
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