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Here If You Need Me: A True Story
by Kate Braestrup

Here If You Need Me: A True Story
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Author: Kate Braestrup
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-01
ISBN: 0316066303
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

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Book Review: thoughtful and engaging story
Summary: 4 Stars

I liked this book, and I have found it to be a perfect book for late night reading. It's interesting enough that I can stay awake for an hour or so to read it, but not so riveting that I would stay up all night. This is an interesting story about a woman whose husband gets killed and then she decides to go to seminary. In short order she becomes Chaplain for the Maine Warden Service (like Fish & Game).

She recounts dealing with her grief over the loss of her husband, and how she copes with her job and her 4 children as a single working mother, who often has to come and go at weird hours if, say, a child is lost in the Maine woods.

While some of these reviews have questioned her beliefs or her understanding of theology, I think that's irrelevant to the story. I have preferred that what she believes is somewhat vague. If this book had had a proselytizing tone, I would have put it down after the first chapter. I think what's important is that she is doing the best she can with what she has, and she is trying to do some good for people who are frightened or have suffered a loss.

So if theology is your interest, this is not the book for you. But if you want to read an interesting story about a woman who cares, about her children, herself, God and helping others, then you will enjoy this book. I know very little about Christian theology but I can appreciate the anecdote and smile when I read about one of her children dragging around a stuffed toy named (by the child) Jesus, and her late husband saying something like, "I see Jesus is a good friend to you."

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