When you receive a new book it is always exciting and something I look forward to. Now if this new book comes with an author I have not read before that is another sense of discovery that is pure joy.THE YOGA CLUB by Cooper Lawrence has allot going on but what I drew from it was friendship. How friends are found in the usual ways through school or your neighborhood but allot of friends are met in strange and sometimes borderline odd ways. So today I am going to tell the story of how one weird meeting led to another.
In December of 2003 I was bidding on a book through eBay and I won the bid (yeah me). But the person bidding against me really wanted to know some things about this book so she emailed me. At first I was a little “who is this person” but that turned into “I like this person” when she told me she wanted to know the ending. I thought that was me and my odd ways but heck no there were others like me. Sandy and I developed an email relationship that had us getting together in 2005 for the RT Convention where standing in line we met Kim! We have all roomed together, stolen books from each other, and talk nonstop about the books we are reading or will read. These women are my friends for completely opposite reasons but they along with so many other people in my life bring me joy, peace, and an opportunity to vent about life.
So to Kim, Sandy, and all of you thanks for being my friend!
I am proud to let you know that I three copies of THE YOGA CLUB from Gallery Books to be given away. To be eligible to win please leave a comment on “the strangest way you met a friend?” then come back on Sunday – January 8th to see if you have won. Please remember if you do not come back, you will not know if you won, because I am going to need your address.
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REVIEW from Mary Gramlich "The Reading Reviewer"
THE YOGA CLUB by Cooper Lawrence
12/11 - Gallery Books – Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Is it possible to have too many friends?
Coco, Bailey, Olivia, and CJ met by coincidence and became friends by choice. A poor costume design and overly curious nature has them witnessing a murder and subsequently getting blackmailed to keep it quiet. Someone with power knows how to use their secrets against them to make the whole incident go away. These four may be home based in Greenwich but could not be more diverse in their personalities, sexual orientation, upbringing, and life style choices. Friends are people you can always count on to have your back and watch out for you if they can stay focused long enough to make that happen.
Yoga is the balancing act and overall grounding for the group who now have to figure out a way to solve a murder, not get killed, and still be home for dinner. Everyone may be up for a game of sleuth, but not one of them wants to be six feet under as a result of such ideas. The police will not help so relying on one another becomes critical and going forward these four become more than friends as they decide how to get everything resolved.
As you watch relationships start from the first meeting, others collapse under the strain of obligations, and one struggling to survive you see the individual expectations change and expand. Nothing in life is perfect but if you give friendship a chance, it could be close to perfection.
What an incredible and delightful read from page one to the final sentence. This book is as heartwarming as it is exciting and mysterious. We all have friends that fill a need for us in one way or another and this book shows how critical those relationships are and how you have to keep working at them so you don’t lose them.
I don't have a tale of meeting a friend that was strange in any way. I met my friends through work, school, family - all the usual venues.
ReplyDeleteI've made several very good friends on line. We started talking because of our interest in books.
ReplyDeleteI met a friend through my work out group which would not be strange except she really lives far away and was a guest at the gym. We are great email friends.
ReplyDeleteIn the romance aisle at Barnes and Noble -- we were both looking at books and started to talk to one another. We have been good friends since that then and that was 11 years ago.
ReplyDeleteNothing unique for me, either. I've met my friends through work or organizations I've belonged to and even my hairdresser.
ReplyDeleteI met my best friend when she took pity on me and gave me a ride home form the airport when we were sophomores at school. Me….rideless…she a stranger with a car and a big heart. That was twenty years ago.
ReplyDeleteI met a friend at a ceramic studio. We had never met before and wound up together and really bonded over adoption.
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Many years ago, I shared a table in a crowded food court with another woman. We started chatting and realized we were in the same profession. Had a great time and exchanged phone #/email info. Days later, my boss hired her for MY job, after firing me! I never held it against her and we've been good friends ever since.
ReplyDeleteLori B.
Lori wins lol. I've been talking with someone in England for almost ten years. I had gone to a pet chat room for the first time and she started talking with me. She was a teenager at the time and I was in my 50's. I almost got to meet her when she planned a trip to the states but she canceled after 911. We can get into some really interesting conversations lol.
ReplyDeleteI met a friend thanks to a wrong number. About 15 years ago my phone rang and when I answered it, it was a call that started a friendship that lasted for about 5 years. She was looking for the person who had the number before me. She moved away and never told me where she was going. It was a phone-call friendship so was never able to meet her in person.
ReplyDeleteDawn S.
i think at facebook i can find much new friend ;)
ReplyDeleteI met a friend at a designer sample sale in NYC! instead of picking up great buys we became friends!
ReplyDeleteI don't really think I've meet friends in a strange way... just through usual in person and online interactions and that's nothing new or different lol...
ReplyDeleteI met a friend once in a doctor's office.
ReplyDeleteI signed up for yoga this week and my first class was on Thursday. My back hasn't recovered yet. :)
ReplyDeleteSo who won?
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