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Meet "Shelter Me." My mom passed it along to me and told me she loved it. I put it on top of my reading pile and will admit that I did some eyeball rolling when I opened the pages to discover that she had blacked out every swear word in the book. She was already sheltering me from the objectionable content, and I love her for that. If you decide you'd like to read the book, I have a censored copy all ready for loaning. For the first 200 pages or so, I found it a bit annoying. Even my daughters, as they would peek over my shoulder, commented on how distracting it must be to try and read around words that were blacked out. I did get used to it, though, and stopped trying to figure out what had been censored, and appreciated the labor of love on my behalf. I loved that the setting of the book was so familiar and comfortable. It was like reading about people in my neighborhood. My three favorite things about the books were:
1. Learning about Pology Cake (and cookies).
2. The gradual crescendo of the theme of forgiveness, and
3. Tug
I really liked it. Definitely PG-13. (But I'm not going to recommend that my 13 year old read it)
I have a great black out story to tell you tonight. :)
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll take a peek at it this weekend.
ReplyDeleteTHAT is so funny. Good for your mom...who would have thought to black out the word?! She's a good woman!
ReplyDelete"Shelter Me?" Did you catch the irony there?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Mom is going to sensor my book too when it gets published. Perhaps she'll black out the naughty words this August when I give her my pre-published version :)
ReplyDeleteSorry - did I just ruin my image? Yes my book has some swear words in it. I am nearing the finish line! I am on my 4th major draft but that really translates to like 20 plus when you count how my times I edit each chapter inbetween drafts.
Did I tell you that I've already started book two? I love the opening - very engaging.