Planning to Live Toronto Collection Book 3 eBook Heather Wardell
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Thirty-something Rhiannon is an obsessive planner and goal-setter, but somehow nothing she achieves ever seems good enough to her. Determined to lose forty pounds for her best friend's August wedding, Rhiannon flees her parents' house in a Christmas-day blizzard to avoid the temptation of all her favorite foods, but her car skids off the deserted road into a tree.
Unable to escape the car, with her leg trapped and bleeding and her cell phone out of reach, Rhiannon is at first certain she'll be rescued and writes notes to her friends and family to pass the time. As the weather cools and her condition deteriorates, though, she recognizes the possibility that her life might be over. Interspersed with increasingly desperate escape attempts, her letters become deeper and more heart-felt as she comes to see what really matters in life.
She's spent her whole life planning but hasn't ever really lived. Will she get the chance to change that?
"Planning to Live" is book 3 in the "Toronto Collection" set of loosely connected novels. While most of the books are not sequels, your favorite characters will reappear across the books in the collection, letting you follow their lives after their original book ends.
Planning to Live Toronto Collection Book 3 eBook Heather Wardell
This book has opened my eyes. Before reading this I went around in a cocoon of sorts. After reading this book I learned to appreciate the small things in life. Life is basically a series of small things. Life is short and you never know when it will end our if/when it will be abruptly changed by an incident. I learned that I did not want to continue on the path I was on. Who knew that a book would start the changes I didn't know I was looking for.This may not be a book for every one...it does not have a warm fuzzy happy ending but that's okay. Life is not always happy.
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Planning to Live Toronto Collection Book 3 eBook Heather Wardell Reviews
I am so impressed with Heather Wardell's storytelling. I normally avoid books that rely on flashbacks and jump back and forth from the past to the present. I think it is a difficult way to tell a story and keep the reader engaged. Heather did this and it seemed very natural and effortless. *spoiler* I have read some of the reviews criticizing the end of this book. I am surprised that everyone wants a story to be all wrapped up in a bow with everything working out perfectly in the end. That isn't life. Life is messy and imperfect and we don't always get 2nd chances to fix things. I think the message is that we should stop waiting and start doing...you might not get another chance.
I just finished this book and can't stop thinking about it. The message was so inspiring. Like Rhiannon the main character in the book I like to get to the destination and don't spend alot of time thinking about the journey. After reading this book I am going to take a step back and enjoy the journey. This is a book told in the first person by Rhiannon who is trapped in her car after it goes off an icy highway after leaving her parents home Christmas night. As she waits to be rescued she analyzes her life and the mistakes she thinks she has made along the way. In the end she recognizes that she is not a failure and finally acknowledges it. It is a great read, you laugh with her and you cry with her. I'll certainly be reading more of Heather Wardell's books.
This review contains spoilers! Be warned.
The whole story reminds me of one zen parable
A man walking across a field encounters a tiger. He fled, the tiger chasing after him. Coming to a cliff, he caught hold of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Terrified, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger had come, waiting to eat him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little began to gnaw away at the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine in one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!
Yes, this is very zen. But this is not what I expected from a romantic novel.
There's more in the book that I don't like, though. While I was reading the book, I cringed all the time. Because of how Rhiannon felt about herself, and because of what she did with her life. (And I'm not even commenting on the all-too-perfect eye-candy-warm-and-sensitive-almost-to-mind-reading men being attracted to a big self-loathing girl, which doesn't ring too true to me, even if the girl is a software developer. I am a software developer; it never gave me much in the dating field, even though I am not big and self-loathing). Still, everything else was bearable, but that Joel thing left me completely not understanding. How could she do that? And her Andrew is not even angry, of course, he's so understanding and compassionate and sympathetic! Sure, sure, that's how life works.
You can tell me that it's a novel and it shouldn't be exactly how life works. Well then, WHY did Rhiannon die? If it's not real life but a novel, she should have had a second chance, for pity's sake! However mangled her life is, she deserved to straighten it. To live some. Instead, all that pain and sorrow was for what? For nothing?
I just don't get it, I suppose.
I love all of Heather Wardell's books. They all make me think about what I would do in the Heroine's situation. She isn't a romance writer (although sometimes her books have a romance in it), but a life writer. Her books are about normal people (although maybe not all in normal situations) and what they do with their life. I never recommend this book first, but once you have read a few of her books, you will want to read this book. I recommend all of her books!
I couldn't decide how to rate this. I read it when I first got it five years ago, and it's stayed in my cloud all this time. I knew how it ended, and still felt like I had been sucker punched at the end. Generally, I know when to expect a sad ending in a story and enjoy a good cry when I get there. This just left me angry at the injustice. What happened to her dead fiance was horrendous enough that I almost can't continue reading past that point. What happened to Rhiannon is kind of fitting in some ways, but no less of a waste.
Don't be deceived by the cover illustration of this book a chocolate chip cookie that is partially eaten, a comfort food to many people. With a chocolate chip cookie, I never expected to get sad (almost cry actually) over how the story ended. Some of the more emotional love scenes got a little bit mushy for my taste, but it felt good overall, until the end that is.
I am not sure about the printed copy, but the edition does not have the transitions well defined. I had to blink back a lot of times as I realized the story has switched from present day to flashback mode, and vice versa.
This novel is the third in the Toronto series by Heather Wardell. The first two ended in happy notes, and I was kind of expecting that this one would as well. It's not always a happy ending, so they say. I just thought it was so unfair for Bill, Rhiannon, and Andrew. But life's got to move on, and there was some kind of redemption anyway.
Highly recommended for people who are so wrapped up in planning their future, that they sometimes forget to live in the present.
This book has opened my eyes. Before reading this I went around in a cocoon of sorts. After reading this book I learned to appreciate the small things in life. Life is basically a series of small things. Life is short and you never know when it will end our if/when it will be abruptly changed by an incident. I learned that I did not want to continue on the path I was on. Who knew that a book would start the changes I didn't know I was looking for.
This may not be a book for every one...it does not have a warm fuzzy happy ending but that's okay. Life is not always happy.
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