About the Book:
Title: The Pages of Her Life
Author: James L. Rubart
Publisher: Thomas Nelson/Zondervan
New from the award–winning author of The Five Times I Met Myself.
How Do You Stand Up for Yourself When It Means Losing Everything?
Allison Moore is making it. Barely. The Seattle area architecture firm she started with her best friend is struggling, but at least they’re free from the games played by the corporate world. She’s gotten over her divorce. And while her dad’s recent passing is tough, their relationship had never been easy.
Then the bomb drops. Her dad had a secret life and left her mom in massive debt.
As Allison scrambles to help her mom find a way out, she’s given a journal, anonymously, during a visit to her favorite coffee shop. As the pressure to rescue her mom mounts, Allison pours her fears and heartache into the journal.
But then the unexplainable happens. The words in the journal, her words, begin to disappear. And new ones fill the empty spaces— words that force her to look at everything she knows about herself in a new light.
Ignoring those words could cost her everything . . . . but so could embracing them.
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About James Rubart:
James L. Rubart is a 28 year old trapped in an older man's body, who loves to water ski and dirt bike with his two grown sons. He's the bestselling, Christy Book of the Year, Carol, INSPY, and RT Book Reviews award winning author of ten novels, including his latest, The Pages of Her Life. He lives with his amazing wife on a small lake in eastern Washington.
My Thoughts:
Whenever I begin a novel by James Rubart I know I am in for an experience I won't likely forget any time soon and this book is no different.
Like an onion this book peels off in layers with each layer revealing Allison's inner and spiritual struggles through the use of a journal. Journaling is a very private act something I do daily and I was quite impressed with the way Mr. Rubart used it and especially his ability to write from a female heroine's point of view.
The conflict that Mr. Rubart creates is real and believable. When an author makes a reader care about the characters, you have an experience not just a book you read.
The Pages of Her Life is a book with lots of twists and turns and even some surprises - like a few character's from Mr. Rubart's prior novel, Rooms, make an appearance adding a fun twist to the overall story. If you haven't read Rooms don't worry you won't need to to enjoy this book. I read it back in 2010 and don't remember all of it and I wasn't lost.
This is a multifaceted book that takes the reader on both Allison's journey and their own. It's hard not to read a James Rubart novel and the reader not do their own soul searching. At least I do.
I highly recommend this book!
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