In a letter to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I cannot live without books," and we understand how he felt. Books have been our best friends ever since we can remember and we're going to celebrate our love for them with this 'reading challenge.' The aim is to tick one book off every month!

Although our lives have taken us in different directions, this challenge, and this blog, is also a way for us to celebrate our friendship as well as our love of reading.

This blog is really just for fun and each entry will explain how the 'book of the month' fits into the category, why we made our choices, and include some comments/thoughts on each book.

Let the challenge commence!!

Donna and Ida

Sunday, 10 July 2016

Challenge 10: A Book Set Somewhere You've Always Wanted To Visit

Donna's book: "And Then We Went Fishing: A Story of Fatherhood, Fate and Forgiveness" by Dirk Benedict (Square One Publishers 1995)

I bought this ages ago because I was going to an event where Dirk Benedict would be signing and I wanted a signed copy, but I never got round to reading it.  Half if it is set in Montana, which is one of the states in the US that I have yet to visit.  I've got a 'bucket list' goal to visit every American state (33 down, 17 to go) and so I thought this would fit nicely into Challenge 10.  Besides that, I'm going to another signing event with Dirk, and I wanted to be able to tell him that I had actually read his book this time!

Comments:

This is a truly beautiful book. I can't remember the last time that I read a book from start to finish in one sitting, but I couldn't put this down. Without giving anything away, the intertwining and juxtaposition of two momentous events in Dirk Benedict's life, builds to a climax that is breathtaking, and both heartbreaking and heart warming. Think you now Dirk Benedict? Unless you read this book, you don't, and you never can.  It's now nearly two weeks since I finished reading this, and it is still touching my soul.  I think that it always will.
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