ByIanon
Format: Kindle Edition
This is not a fast nor is it an easy read. The highly poetic language demands you slow down and give the material a more thoughtful treatment. But if the reader is willing to do that, he or she will be rewarded with some valuable snippets into history, culture, and our baser humanity.
This review is from: Waking Reality (Kindle Edition)
Creating a book that brings to light the feelings and situation victims face helps heal the community. When people understand how one feels and brings it out in the open not only can the victim begin to heal, their family and overall community can. The knowledge that you are not alone and there is a community of people who have suffered like you and others who are there to help you heal can change how one may be feeling, can help victims overcome the grave injustice they have faced and overcome the grief that these situations create.
This well written, inspirational and overall fascinating book allows the reader to go deeper. This book is meant to bring the reader into the reality of the suffering and bring into the open these situations which are normally hidden. This book is a book that will help heal us as a community and bring back some of our lost connections.
Maybe one day children will come with a label on them...
Donna's imagery carries you to the depth of her pain with uttermost honesty, wisdom and compassion.
She creates a vacuum from which faith finds its root and angels dance.
More than anything this book is about finding your voice no matter what life deals you. It is a cry of hope and a tale so masterfully written, the music of her words still linger in my mind. It is a scream to action for all those who sometimes choose "not to see". If I see you, you see me!
Bravo Donna, a "tour de force"!
You're not alone.
ByTS Dawsonon February 12, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
Even for those of us who have not been victims of such situations as those described in Ms. LeClair's book, it is easy to see that others would find comfort in knowing they are not alone. Not that one would revel in knowing others have suffered, but just the knowledge that someone else is telling you they have been where you have been and they have come through it the stuff that makes hope spring eternal. Hope that you too can survive. That may not be the message the author intended, but it is what I was left with when finished.
Most of the time I read to be entertained, but this is the exception for me. The situations are powerfully described, but not in a way as to be entertaining or glorified and I appreciate that. This was out of my comfort zone, but that does not mean the book didn't move me. Other reviewers have mentioned that they are left changed after finishing and I agree. I lingered on the thought that Ms. LeClair has suffered terribly, but rose above and gave of herself in the writing of this book. What more can one ask for in a book that if it makes you feel and it makes you think and this book did both for me.
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Donjo Medlevine
This review is from: Waking Reality (Paperback)
I love the way she writes. you will not be able to put this down!
She is a master of the English language.
Donjo
Chanticleer Book Reviews is honored to announce the First Place Category Winners for the JOURNEY Awards 2014, a genre division of the Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Award Writing Competitions.
The Journey Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Narrative Non-fiction. The Journey Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer Book Reviews Blue Ribbon Awards Writing Competitions.
First Place Category Winners for the Journey Awards are:
- Global Enlightenment: Thwarted Escape by Lopamudra Banerjee
- Personal Journey: The Breast is History, by Bronwyn Hope
- Career Experiences: Caregiving Our Loved Ones by Nanette J. Davis, Ph.D.
- An Era Memoir: Soviet Letters by Alex Posoukh
- Travelogue Experiences: Moroccan Musings by Anne B. Barriault
- True Action: Waking Reality by Donna LeClair
- How-to/Life Experiences: The Accidental Teacher: Life Lessons from my Silent Son by Annie Lubliner Lehmann
- Best Manuscript: Five Thousand Brothers in Law: Love in Angola Prison by Shannon Hager