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Iris
Iris is an imaginative little girl with the ability to make just about anything seem to come to life when she plays with it. After Iris' death at a young age, her mother feels that there isn't much left to celebrate when it comes to the holiday season. Little does she know that Iris has one last gift to give her mother this year, and it's going to make it one Christmas to truly remember. An uplifting holiday short story.
8 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 26, 2012
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Nancy Springer
188Ìýbooks2,244ÌýfollowersBIO -- NANCY SPRINGER
Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milestone, having written that many novels for adults, young adults and children, in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magical realism, horror, and mystery -- although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession. DARK LIE, recently released from NAL, is her first venture into mass-market psychological suspense.
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Nancy Springer moved with her family to Gettysburg, of Civil War fame, when she was thirteen. She spent the next forty-six years in Pennsylvania, raising two children (Jonathan, now 38, and Nora, 34), writing, horseback riding, fishing, and birdwatching. In 2007 she surprised her friends and herself by moving with her second husband to an isolated area of the Florida panhandle, where the birdwatching is spectacular and where, when fishing, she occasionally catches an alligator.
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April 26, 2013
Iris by Nancy Springer is a heart warming account of a mother and how she deals with the oddities of life after her daughter's and husband's death. Separation takes a while getting used to. But solitude doesn't seem to bother her as much. She finds comfort and solace in the everyday tidbits that we normally turn a blind eye to. Collecting bottle caps, clothespins, strings of beads, whistles, toys that someone outgrew, jacks - becomes her all time leisure activity. I feel, it sort of becomes her refuge. The author makes this short, 8-paged story more humorous with witty remarks as spoken by the mother.
There isn't much I could write about this book without spilling it all. Its far from the likes of anything I've read and yet I was curious to know more. It was just so... sweet! Something we can learn from this is that, there's no such thing as "worthless". Every thing, whether small or big in monetary terms, possesses some value in the eyes of the beholder. Its all based on perception.
There isn't much I could write about this book without spilling it all. Its far from the likes of anything I've read and yet I was curious to know more. It was just so... sweet! Something we can learn from this is that, there's no such thing as "worthless". Every thing, whether small or big in monetary terms, possesses some value in the eyes of the beholder. Its all based on perception.
April 4, 2016
This was a sweet short story. It focuses on a woman, alone in the world. She has lost her young daughter and her husband and as she grows older, she becomes a recluse.
To entertain herself, she begins collecting small items (bottle caps, teething rings, etc) that no one else wants anymore. One day, she pulls out her collection and puts them to good use.
I cannot say more without completely giving this away. What I can say is this was a sweet story about hope. It also reminds us that any item can be a treasure to somebody. What is old junk to someone may be of great value to another. It also serves to remind to take pleasure in the simple things in life, and that no matter how lonely you feel, you are never truly alone.
If you are looking for a touching story that doesn't take much time to read, this is it.
To entertain herself, she begins collecting small items (bottle caps, teething rings, etc) that no one else wants anymore. One day, she pulls out her collection and puts them to good use.
I cannot say more without completely giving this away. What I can say is this was a sweet story about hope. It also reminds us that any item can be a treasure to somebody. What is old junk to someone may be of great value to another. It also serves to remind to take pleasure in the simple things in life, and that no matter how lonely you feel, you are never truly alone.
If you are looking for a touching story that doesn't take much time to read, this is it.
December 15, 2012
Review of Iris by Nancy Springer
5 Stars
“Iris� is a sad but winning story, which left me with the kind of lingering feeling I get from reading O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.� The narrator is a solitary elderly lady, who lost daughter Iris in an accident at age seven, lost her husband when he was only fifty-four, and now has given up on knickknacks, memories, and Christmas. But some inexplicable impulse makes her take up “collecting,� and via that impulse, she finds true Christmas happiness-and hope.
I reviewed an e-book copy from the publisher, Untreed Reads, via Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Group Making Connections.
5 Stars
“Iris� is a sad but winning story, which left me with the kind of lingering feeling I get from reading O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.� The narrator is a solitary elderly lady, who lost daughter Iris in an accident at age seven, lost her husband when he was only fifty-four, and now has given up on knickknacks, memories, and Christmas. But some inexplicable impulse makes her take up “collecting,� and via that impulse, she finds true Christmas happiness-and hope.
I reviewed an e-book copy from the publisher, Untreed Reads, via Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Group Making Connections.
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