Tuesday, July 27, 2010

"Handle with Care"

This book had me reading eagerly till the last chapter.
I once had a writing teacher that sais that sometimes a
writer has such a great yarn that they find themselves
lost for an ending. Often that is why children write
"and she/he woke up, it was all a dream."

It seems that is what happened to this story. But instead
of "it was all a dream" she took the ending from "My Sisiter's
Keeper" and stuck it in here!

To add to the insult there was that bit about the cheque.
Obviously it was still pinned to the fridge six months after
the trail because of her guilt, but if she had have been
sensible she would have banked it, paid off all the mortages,
the credit cards, bought the new van and wheel chair and
surely in that six months there was anothere set of school
hoildays and she could have tried another trip to Disney
World! Afyter all isn't that why she fought the battle?

To just put it in the coffin "because it was your money" means
NOTHING. By not cashing it it stays in the insurer's bank! I
would have set up a college fund for the elder daughter and
set up a fund in my dead daughter's name with the remainder
of the money to help children with brittle bone disease.

What a lame finish to a great story, so disappointing.

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