From Publishers Weekly
Though Patterson is best known for his Alex Cross thrillers, one of his biggest-selling titles has been Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2001), an affecting love story awash in tragedy and hope. This new, less powerful but compulsively readable novel is cut from the same sentimental cloth, with the narrative hook here being not diary entries but letters that an elderly woman writes to her beloved granddaughter. When Jennifer, a grieving widow and columnist for the Chicago Tribune, hears that her grandmother Samantha has fallen and is in a coma, she races to Sam's town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. At Sam's home on the shores of the lake, she finds a packet of letters addressed to her; their text, recapping Sam's life with an abusive husband but also with a mysterious lover she calls "Doc," occupies half the novel. In counterpart runs Jennifer's romance with a childhood friend, Brendan, she reunites with, only to learn that he is dying of brain cancer—a romance that allows her to heal her grief for her dead husband, Danny, who drowned the year before. The novel's structure works brilliantly, with Patterson as usual using brief chapters and simple prose to propel the reader onward; more thrust comes from the plot questions: Will Sam survive? Who is Doc? What will become of Jennifer and dying Brendan? The answers will leave readers satisfied but not as stirred as they were with Suzanne. This is a slighter tale, but also one that few if any will put down as Patterson again shows how it is done.
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Another book from our bookclub that's ready to travel in a bookring.
PMing wishlist folks first and shipping it out. Happy traveling!

Welcome to the show! The rules are simple and pretty typical (we have a first time ringer, so I'm posting them here as FYI).

Please journal when you've recieved the book and when you pass it along. Feel free to journal as many times as you'd like in between. Shipping by the cheapest means available is a-OK. If you have this book for longer than 3-4 weeks, please journal to let folks know that it isn't lost, just resting.

Since it's heading off internationally, I'll probably change it to a bookray vs a bookring. OK, here are the list of participants:

LadyShaye (WI) US shipping
laura9691 (FL) US shipping
sunshinedreem (MD) US shipping
jenvince(CA) Anywhere
AceofHearts (Canada) Anywhere
dodau (UK) Anywhere
Kiki66 (Germany) Anywhere

Released on Wednesday, December 08, 2004 at about 2:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Bookring in Bookring, A Bookring Controlled Releases.

RELEASE NOTES:

Finally on its journey!!!! Woo Hoo!

Rec'd today, have one to read before it and this is next up!

Received safe and sound. Will pass it on as soon as I read it.

I loved this one as much as "Suzanne's Diary of Nicholas". I cried and cried. Thank you so much for sharing this with me.

received today in the mail. I have two bookrings ahead of this but it shouldn't take me very long to get started on this! I'll journal again when I've started reading it.

I started reading this today and ended up finishing the whole book, I just couldn't put it down! I had read Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas about six months ago, and this book was just as amazing. The characters felt so real and so life like that I could just imagine myself right there with them, and couldn't help but to cry my eyes out several times while I was reading this! It really was a great book and I like the style Patterson uses with the short chapters, I think it helps the reading go by quicker!

I'm putting this in the mail tomorrow morning to Jenvince, I hope you enjoy it!!

Thanks! Looking forward to reading this!

This was a quick read. Touching and sweet. I got a little teary-eyed at the end. Enjoyed this a lot. Patterson's style of writing reminded me a lot of Nicholas Sparks, who I enjoy reading. Thank you for sharing it. I'm looking forward to reading Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas.

This is in the mail 3/1.

received today when I returned from a bridge tournament

I just couldn't put this book down. It was every bit the equal of Suzanne's Diary. I cried and cried and thoroughly enjoyed the story. I agree with Jenvince that Patterson's style is quite similiar to Sparks. Thanks for the great read

mailed today

When this arrived I realised that I had already read it. However it's a quick enjoyable read so I think I'll read it again.

As I said having read this before it was a quick and easy read. A nice cosy book to sink into with no big surprises just little moments. Very enjoyable.

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Arrived today.. looking forward to read this one since I like 'Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas' a lot!

thanks dodau!

Well... I've done it again... read the book straight through...
I really enjoyed that one.. reminded me of Suzannes Diary... I have never read any other book by James Patterson (and don't think I will) but these two are just great.
Written very lovingly and caring...

Already asked for Funkybamboozle address....

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went to a friend today..
I hope she is going to register the book :-))

Well, unfortunately she didn't register it.. so I got it back and took it with me to the meet-up today!
(January 9th 2008)

jetzt bei mir!

Das Buch lag noch auf meinem Regal, keine Ahnung, wie das passsieren konnte.
Leider bin ich nicht zum Lesen gekommen, deshalb geht es jetzt als surprise - bookring auf die Reise.

Received it today with many thanks!

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Sent by mail to a fellow bookmoocher.

Enjoy!