A Slender Thread- Suspense/Foreshadowing

This book is taking me longer to read than usual. It isn't a boring a book. It is just a slow book. Quite honestly there is nothing happening. Grammy and the 5 sisters are just talking. Yet, even there there is zero action, there is tons of suspense. I have a feeling that something big is about to happen.


There are three parts to this book and I have just finished part 1. Part 1 is what I reckon to be the introduction. It's like a long setting; sort of like Things Fall Apart.


Anyways, I can't really explain why I think something big will happen. I can just sense it. For example, Ashley (the oldest) is married and has 2 boys that she adores. However, I think they are going to die and that she will fall back in love with her high school sweetheart that she re-met at the funeral. I think they are going to die because she just called home (she is staying at with Grammy) and Jack, her husband, didn't pick up. Something just seemed fishy. Also, Harry, Ashley's first love, is engaged but is thinking of canceling it. This is just one example from one of the five sisters.


So even though this book is slow and sometimes boring, I'm gonna push through and continue reading because I think that something big and exciting is about to happen. Hopefully, that something will happen.

A Slender Thread- LIFE

This book, A Slender Thread, really make me think about life.

All the sisters in this book aren’t content with their life. One wants a slower pace life, one wants love, one wants acceptance while the other two aren’t quite sure what they want. Their quests to find the meaning of their lives have caused me to think of my own.

Life has gone by so fast for me. I remember saying ‘Oh, when I get to high school I’m gonna be so grown up that I will do ____.’ Being in high school used to seem like a far way off but the freaky thing is that I AM in high school. The first 15 years of my life have flown by and I will never be able to get them back. When I think about, really think about it, it scares me. But it also causes me to wonder, ‘what am I doing with my life right now.’ So many days have passed by and all I have really done is gone to school, attended volleyball practice and completed my homework. And quite honestly, I think that is sad. I have so many dreams and ambitions for my life, yet I am still sitting on my butt not trying to make those come true. For example, some days all I do if surf the internet. What productive thing could have come out of that? I could be writing an encouraging email to a friend in need. I hate wasting a day on the computer, yet I do it so often. I guess the reason I hate it is because it uses up so much time of my life. My life is like a ticking bomb. I’m only going to live for x amount of years and then bam! my life is over. I just hope that I utilize my time wisely and live for God.

A Slender AThread

I had just finished reading Shadows of the Canyon by Tracie Peterson. I must say I really enjoyed that book. It was one of those books that I really got stuck into.

Anyways, I was at the library choosing another book to read, where I came upon A Slender Thread. Ironically, this book is written by Tracie Peterson. Since I had fallen in love with one of her books already, I reckoned that this one must also be good.

When I first read the back of the book I thought that the story would be about 5 YOUNG sisters; sisters who are around 16~25 years old (25 pushing the oldest age). I also thought that the mother, who was mentioned in the back for abandoning them, would still be alive. But in actual truth this was not the case. The story starts of with the mother’s, Rachelle Barrister, funeral. All the sisters are there to pay their respects. Ashley, the oldest, is married and has two kids. Brook, her identical twin, is in the modeling career. Connie is out there living her own life and Deirdre, the second youngest, is also married and has one child. And Erica, the baby of the family, appears to be no younger than 23. It then tells the story in a flashback sorta fashion; where you get each sister’s take on their sad past without their biological mother. So far this book has surprised me. I guess the short description on the backs of books can lead you astray sometimes. However, with saying that, I am enjoying A Slender Thread.

Shadows of the Canyon- Tracie Peterson

Shadows of the Canyon is such an attention-grabbing and exciting book. Tracie Peterson weaves romance, mystery, and Christianity together perfectly to produce a book that is simply superb. When a book really interests me I can’t put it down; I want to read it every available second I have. And for a long time that hadn’t happened; a book hadn’t completely captured me. Well, that was until I read Shadows of the Canyon.

In Shadows of the Canyon, Alex, the main character, faces some really difficult conflicts. Her father is disloyal to her mother and hates Alex, causing Alex’s mother to weaken. Alex is also gaining unwanted attention from Joel Harder while Valerie Winthrop is stealing her true love, Luke Toland, away and amidst all of this she is caught in a middle of a murder case.

Yet through this whole drama Alex remains faithful to God. Sure she had her times when she doubted God’s hand in this mess, but she never stop believing. Sometimes I wonder if I will stand strong in tribulation. When God tests me, I want to be strong enough to handle it and push through, just like Alex (with the help of friends) stayed strong in God.