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A Mile in My Flip-Flops: Book Review


After reading Words I had a hard time getting into another book. It really seemed like there problems were meaningless after the things I read in Words. However, I kept looking and trying different books. Well, something in A Mile in My Flip-Flops by Melody Carlson caught my attention and I think it was because I could see that this could have been my path in life if my circumstances were different.

Gretchen is thirty-something and stuck in life. She is stuck because she has a broken heart. She attempts to mourn her loss of her fiance (who left her a week before the wedding) by eating ice cream and watching HGTV. 

So finally she comes up with a brilliant idea on how to change to her life. She will flip her own house! If she can do this she can make enough profit to get a house of her own so she can get out of her tiny apartment with her big lab puppy. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?

Well, plenty! The house she picks is way above her head and her retired carpenter dad wants to hire his carpenter friend Noah to get the project finished in time. With Noah being her only hope to get the project done on time she is going to have to look past the baggage that he has and let him work with her. 

Yep! That could have been me if M chose to not marry me. I could see myself trying to flip a house to get myself on my feet again. I could see myself relying on my dad's contracting skills and contacts to help me get it done on time and well. I could also see myself wanting to control the whole project and not letting someone like 'Noah' come in and take over. Yes, I could see this life for myself as so many factors in the book could have been my own. 

I'm glad to say that we both got happy endings and I'm glad at how mine has turned out. I love being married to M! 

This is a good book that is really easy to read. It would be a good book to take on a vacation or a long plane or car ride somewhere. It's easy to pick up and get drawn back into the story line and keep going. These are the books that I love. Nothing that requires too much attention to get back into. With have a child running around I can't always give that type of attention to a book. 

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