Wish You Well by David Baldacci Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Wish You Well
Book Review: One of my favorites...
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is really good. Different from anything I have ever read and I certanily love this story. David Baldacci writes vety well. I picked this book and didn't think it would be that good, but when I actuly read it, I liked it. The only bad comment I have to say is that to much people die(just my opinion, of course). It has a happy ending, though.Book Review: Realating to the book.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am just in middle school so I don't get the privilige of reading a book so well written. My grandmother introduced this book to me because she thought I could relate to it becuase my father passed away three years ago. After reading the book I understand how she saw my being able to relate to it through being at a very young age and losing someone dear to me but when I closed the book for a final time I began to think, I relate to this book in so many other ways. I am not a big fan of reading and it is not often that I do, every once in a while I do come across a book that I like and I read it, never with great enthusiasim though. This book is the best book I have ever read, which is not to say much because I have read a total of 15 books cover to cover not including the baby books but this book inspired me. As I was reading I began to wonder what it would be like to live in the mountains in Virginia simply living on what I could find but then I realized that being the very needy high maintence person that I am that it would be best that I just imagine it instead of live it. Reading this book gave me a new prospective on my life. After closing this book for the last time I realized how many people are so much more worse off than me, but then they don't see it like that they see it as we have it worse off than them because those of us who do live in cities and have electricity most likely would not be able to survive in the mountains or any like area becuase we were not raised in the right mind set to do so. I mean none of this as be offensive to anyone. This just goes to show that though we are all human beings we still see things differently, never the wrong way, but most of us unlike Jack Cardinal only see but half of life's bueaty. Book Review: Predictable but charming
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the first (and only) I have read of Baldacci, and I wasn't aware until reading reviews here that it was a departure from his usual genre. It was recommended to me by a male friend who told me, "This is so obviously a chick book, but I loved it"!
Even though most of the story, and certainly the conclusion, is predictable, I still found myself with tears streaming down my face at the end. The characters are charming, and Baldacci's description of life in Appalachia made me long for a simpler time and lifestyle.
Book Review: Coming of age in Appalachia
Summary: 5 Stars
Writer Jack Cardinal and his family are returning home after a picnic. An accident leaves Jack dead, and his widow and children forced to leave the city for the small coal town in which Jack was born and raised. Lou and her younger brother, Oz head for Dickens, Virginia, accompanied by their mother, Amanda. Paralyzed while protecting her children, Amanda has a nurse, hired by friends to stay with her ahile.
In Dickens, there are the townsfolk and those who live on the mountain. We meet Diamond Skinner...George Davis...Cotten Longfellow. A Huck Finn, a farmer, and a lawyer, respecttively. Standing as ex-officio mountain matriarch is Louisa Mae Cardinal, Lou's namesake and the childrens' great-grandmother. Louisa quickly dismisses the nurse, and takes the three into her home. She has never met them, but they are family.
Alienation, rivalry, desperation. Family, loyalty, love. This may be Virginia in 1940; the story could easily take place today.
Baldacci is literate and approachable. Simplicity and struggle run parallel. Life happens when they converge.
"'Well, people seem to spend most of their lives chasing something. Maybe that's part of what makes us human." Cotten pointed down the road. "You see that old shack down there?" Lou looked at a mud-chinked, falling-down log cabin they no longer used. "Louisa told me about a story your father wrote when he was a little boy. It was about a family that survived one winter up there in that little house. Without wood, or food."
"How'd they do it?"
"They believed in things."
"Like what? Wishing wells?" she said with scorn.
"No, they believed in each other. And created something of a miracle. Some say truth is stranger than fiction. I think that means that whatever a person can imagine really does exist, somewhere. Isn't that a wonderful possibility?'"
Book Review: Different for Baldacci
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this book. I got the feeling reading it, that this was Baldacci's dream novel. The one he always wanted to write. It's beautiful and touching. A great read.