The Lavender Hour: A Novel

by Anne LeClaire | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780345460486 Global Overview for this book
Registered by woosang of Campbelltown, New South Wales Australia on 5/2/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by woosang from Campbelltown, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Not the cover shown, this is the Advanced Uncorrected proof of this novel. It was sent to me for review but arrive after the publication date. (Go figure).


Downsized from her teaching job, Jessie longs for a sense of renewal and decides to spend a year on Cape Cod, seeking to be cleansed by rushing ocean waters and comforted by the lavender hues of the setting sun. While there she volunteers with a local hospice program, where she meets Luke, a once proud fisherman whose life and body have been ravaged by cancer. Jessie’s presence is a great help to Luke’s mother, who has moved in to take care of her son.

After initial misgivings Jessie and Luke forge a deep friendship, and the former teacher is surprised to find herself opening up about her life, the loss of her father when she was a girl, her often difficult relationship with her mother, and her own battle with illness. When Luke makes a critical request of his new friend, Jessie must look deep within herself for an answer, knowing that her actions will have far-reaching effects on Luke’s family and forever change the bonds within her own.


Released 16 yrs ago (5/3/2007 UTC) at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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Returning the book to the USA from whence it came. It arrived too later for a review, so am sending it unread to a loving home. Where it can relax.

Journal Entry 3 by plainjane8160 from Hanahan, South Carolina USA on Saturday, October 31, 2009
I got this book from another book swap club about two and a half years ago.I just noticed the BCID and decided to mark it found.

Journal Entry 4 by plainjane8160 from Hanahan, South Carolina USA on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
I just couldnt get into this one.I will take it to the next meeting

Journal Entry 5 by rebekkila from Charleston, South Carolina USA on Sunday, March 14, 2010
Caught this at the meet-up.

Journal Entry 6 by rebekkila at Marion Square in Charleston, South Carolina USA on Saturday, March 5, 2011

Released 13 yrs ago (3/5/2011 UTC) at Marion Square in Charleston, South Carolina USA

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Left at the Food + Wine Festival for a challenge.

Journal Entry 7 by wingbookczukwing at Charleston, South Carolina USA on Saturday, March 5, 2011
Rebekkila and I did a release walk for the Food+Wine Challenge. She released this book, only it didn't get too far, because I decided to try and give it a read. I sometimes have problems with uncorrected proofs, so am not sure how I'll do. Pictured is Rebekkila restocking the shelf at Kudu Coffee, where we began our walk.

Journal Entry 8 by wingbookczukwing at Charleston, South Carolina USA on Thursday, June 16, 2011
I wonder if I'd feel differently about this book had I not been witness to my mother's death from cancer in the local Hospice and were this not the second anniversary of that passing.  The book had passed through too many hands unread, and I felt it deserved a reading, but didn't expect to be drawn in so by it.  That we learn from the dying is very true. A lesson in courage, a lesson in strength. One has to be very strong to live fully while dying. I've heard the expression to "live like you were dying, , meaning to live every moment as if it was your last. My mother died like she was living; every moment imbued with hope, optimism, and love -- so much love. She taught me so much on her final journey and continues to teach me still.


And that's what this book is about: the final journey of one man with pancreatic cancer. Jessie, a cancer survivor herself, comes into his life as a Hospice volunteer.  "What we forget is as important as what we remember."

When my mother was in Hospice, in those end days, there was a real peacefulness, a sense of waiting, of anticipation, of hope. Not necessarily hope for return of health, but for release and reunion, hope for freedom from pain and an unbinding of the spirit.  My husband called it (Hospice) a train station for souls.  No one should have to die alone.

This book is called TheLavendar Hour, that time between day and dusk, night and 
dawn, when the boundaries are thin and rebirth mingles with death ( my description, not the suthor's, which I stupidly didn't mark to quote.) it is about the lessons in dying, choices, how dying serves as a model for life, and about remembrance.

Pictured: bookczuk and bumma in the 1960's.

Journal Entry 9 by wingbookczukwing at Charters Settlement, New Brunswick Canada on Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Released 12 yrs ago (7/13/2011 UTC) at Charters Settlement, New Brunswick Canada

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Sending this off to a friend in New Brunswick, Canada. It travels with love and a bookmark from bumma.


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Journal Entry 10 by RealBookWorm at Charters Settlement, New Brunswick Canada on Monday, July 25, 2011
This arrived in the mail today. The bookmark will be treasured Amy, thank you so much! I'll make another entry after I've read this.

Journal Entry 11 by RealBookWorm at in the mail, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Even though I didn't particularly like Jessie, the main character, I liked the story and the way in which it was told. I've had the book for a few months now and every time I need another book to read, I've looked at it and thought, "not yet". My sister has recently been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and that may be what prompted me to pick the book up now. I'm glad I read it and I'll recommend it to others.

I'll most likely pass this book along to my friend or one of my sisters to read. It'll definitely keep travelling (although Bumma's bookmark will not go with it). :)

Thanks again to bookczuk for sending it to me. <3

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