This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance

It's one of those books where I knew from the first page it was going to be a good one because there was just something about the writing and something about Harriet Chance that drew me in . Moving back and forth from the present to various times in her 79 years , part of the book is narrated by som......more

As a kid, I could see the Sherwood Arms (aka Sherwood Village) from our kitchen window. No, not in the Sarah Palin sense of seeing it from the kitchen window. I mean, literally. The retirement community sat on the other side of abandoned cow pastures and the ruin of an old dairy barn. Right there on......more

What's the Point? I found this novel to be well-written but depressing and meaningless. I was craving humor and some sort of purpose in this examination of a woman's life, and those cravings remain unsatisfied. But I did finish the book, which says something about the easy writing style. Harriet Chanc......more

A "this is your life" to 78 yr old Harriett, who lost her husband some months prior. This goes back and forth at different stages of Harriet's life and her relationships with family and others. Sometimes sad, sometimes funny.......more