Touching Lives. Kindred Spirits.

Today the author received some lovely questions and observations from a senior who just finished reading TIMBER; Fire in the Pines.  The reader's background: 

She lives in an independent living senior housing community and just finished TIMBER this morning. Because she can't relate to the subject matter in many of the current popular books, so she doesn't read many books.  But TIMBER is one book she both finished and loved! 

Her question and thoughts:

• Did the author grow up on a farm?  The reader is a farm girl and she really felt that the author must be one too.  

• She also has a great fondness for farm life, and loved how the author used the word "privy" and other words and sayings that she hasn't heard in a long time.  

• Especially during winter, she feels nostalgic for the fresh, clean smell of hay and the farm in the summer.   Reading TIMBER helped her recall fond memories of her family's garden and canning vegetables from their farm.

• She feels Ms. Sanderson is a kindred spirit! 

A.L. (Sandy) Sanderson did spend several years living on a farm near Hinckley,  Minnesota when she was a girl.  Most of her family were farmers.  

Sandy writes because she loves to take her readers on a journey.  Her goal in writing is to take her readers "back" with her.  Her "fondest wish is that her reader's enjoy the trip as much as she enjoyed taking taking them there."
 
Did reading TIMBER touch your life?  Send me a note and tell me your story!