Our Year at The Fahm or Blessed are the Cracked for They Shall Let in the Light eBook Sara Parker
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You can take the girl out of California, but you can’t prepare her for a New England winter, as Parker learns in her witty memoir.
Sara Parker gives us an unvarnished tour of her new life with her tongue in her cheek and her heart on her sleeve. Sara shares her woes and triumphs with such humor - both extra dry and fairily whimsical; she treats language like a lovely lump of Play-Dough, sometimes creating words, phrases and names for inanimate objects that convey their essence far more effectively than conventional wordery can. (It's catching!) Although this true account is often a romp worthy of Lucy, it also ventures fearlessly to lonely places, human frailties, political insights, world woes, love of animals, as well as rampant mouse poo and homemade applesauce. It shows us how hard hard work can be, the shock of sudden crises, and helps us, by example, to go with the flow. It honors the beauty of Nature. It celebrates good people and laughs at the meanies. Sara's every response to her new life is informed by her big sensitive heart, which in turn warmed mine. My inner child smiles. Her subtitle suits her - she lets in the light.. Recommended.
Our Year at The Fahm or Blessed are the Cracked for They Shall Let in the Light eBook Sara Parker
What a delightful book! Sara Parker gives us an unvarnished tour of her new life with her tongue in her cheek and her heart on her sleeve. It reminded me a little of "George Washington Slept Here" where city folk get countrified the hard way.Sara shares her woes and triumphs with such humor - both extra dry and fairily whimsical - that I become involved immediately, and stayed that way. A real page-turner. She treats language like a lovely lump of Play-Dough, sometimes creating words, phrases and names for inanimate objects that convey their essence far more effectively than conventional wordery can. (It's catching!) Although this true account is often a romp worthy of Lucy, it also ventures fearlessly to lonely places, human frailties, political insights, world woes, love of animals, as well as rampant mouse poo and homemade applesauce. It shows us how hard hard work can be, the shock of sudden crises, and helps us, by example, to go with the flow. It honors the beauty of Nature. It celebrates good people and laughs at the meanies. Like the official who railed against local beavers building dams without permits. No kidding. It connected with me on many levels. Sara's every response to her new life is informed by her big sensitive heart, which in turn warmed mine. My inner child smiles. Her subtitle suits her - she lets in the light.. Recommended.
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Our Year at The Fahm or Blessed are the Cracked for They Shall Let in the Light eBook Sara Parker Reviews
A wonderful book that tells the stories of cross country travel, relocation and the challenges of a West coast to East coast move.
It made me giggle and it made me happy.
I recommend it!
I loved Our Year at The Fahm! I felt I could connect to this memoir at so many levels- the economic down fall of 2008, the generosity and support of neighbors, the craziness of everyday life, of course magnified by the farm, the rodents, the cats, the freezing conditions..... Great humor! Great read!
Sara Parker's memoir, based on her blog of the same title, relates the story of how, at the end of the summer of 2009, she and her partner, Raj, found themselves on an unlikely and rather unplanned adventure, forced upon them by the vagaries of the economic downturn. Renting their beloved Bay Area home with the "million dollar view", Parker and Raj packed up their three cats and drove 3,000 miles to a remote New England farm owned by Raj's family. Isolated and in need of repair (and fumigation, it turns out), "The Fahm", as they come to refer to it, presents the two city dwellers with some interesting challenges, including questionable plumbing, an antiquated furnace with a very bad attitude, and an endless cast of invading vermin, both living and dead. Parker has pulled the book directly from the blog, keeping the date and time titles intact. If you can overcome the urge to click on the occasional remaining hyperlink, and the slightly choppy read, this format along with Parker's accessible and witty writing style, offers a journal-styled read. One addition Parker has made to the book is the added preface which lays out the series of events that made the move necessary. It is the preface that helps put the rest of the book in clearer perspective then one might find in the blog alone. Parker's literary voice is casual, funny and self-effacing. The book does render the tales one might expect - such as the constant battle between the couple's three cats, and the never-ending parade of seemingly suicidal mice, Raj's battle with the possibly homicidal furnace, and Parker's realization that farm living is, if nothing else, freaking hard work. There are upsides, of course - such as Parker's realization that she's got a gift for growing tomatoes, which she manages to do in near-frightening proportions. One could argue that for a California girl trained as a computer programmer, just surviving a New England winter could be considered a little victory. But it is Parker's sharing of the unexpected events of their year, including a family member's devastating health diagnosis, and their brush with Hurricane Earl, that make the book more than just a fish-out-of-water story. Parker's unflinching willingness to share every aspect of her journey on a nearly-daily basis, including her own failings and flaws, offer up a book that is a worthy and entertaining read.
Our Year at The Fahm is fun to read, flowing with the energy of the moments captured. Miz Parker captures the underlying spirit of those moments and situations in a unique way that is... well, truth!
This was a book that was hard to quit reading.I know what a Pennsylvania winter is like in the country so I know what she went through.
Ok, I may be biased because I’m a city girl who longs, every now and then, to move to the country. So the content of Sara Parker’s book is close to my heart. But what makes this story unique is Sara’s voice, full of humor and word play -- “cracked” indeed (as her subtitle suggests). Her format is journal-like, but don’t be fooled. She weaves daily foibles and small triumphs into larger themes through a cast of characters, human and animal, that burrow into our hearts. By the end of the book, “the Fahm” itself has reeled us in and we feel about it the way we might feel about any well-rendered character fond and awed and grateful for the chance to have gotten to know it so intimately.
What a delightful book! Sara Parker gives us an unvarnished tour of her new life with her tongue in her cheek and her heart on her sleeve. It reminded me a little of "George Washington Slept Here" where city folk get countrified the hard way.
Sara shares her woes and triumphs with such humor - both extra dry and fairily whimsical - that I become involved immediately, and stayed that way. A real page-turner. She treats language like a lovely lump of Play-Dough, sometimes creating words, phrases and names for inanimate objects that convey their essence far more effectively than conventional wordery can. (It's catching!) Although this true account is often a romp worthy of Lucy, it also ventures fearlessly to lonely places, human frailties, political insights, world woes, love of animals, as well as rampant mouse poo and homemade applesauce. It shows us how hard hard work can be, the shock of sudden crises, and helps us, by example, to go with the flow. It honors the beauty of Nature. It celebrates good people and laughs at the meanies. Like the official who railed against local beavers building dams without permits. No kidding. It connected with me on many levels. Sara's every response to her new life is informed by her big sensitive heart, which in turn warmed mine. My inner child smiles. Her subtitle suits her - she lets in the light.. Recommended.
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