{"id":3777,"date":"2010-01-28T01:18:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T06:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2010-01-28T01:18:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T06:18:36","slug":"becca-by-the-book-by-laura-jensen-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=3777","title":{"rendered":"Becca By The Book by Laura Jensen Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, the<\/span>
\n Christian Fiction Blog Alliance<\/span><\/a>
\n is introducing<\/span>
\n Becca By The Book<\/a><\/span>
\n Zondervan (January 1, 2010)
\n by
\n Laura Jensen Walker<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Laura Jensen Walker is an award-winning writer, popular speaker, and breast-cancer survivor who loves to touch readers and audiences with the healing power of laughter.<\/p>\n

Born in Racine, Wisconsin (home of Western Printing and Johnson\u2019s Wax\u2014maker of your favorite floor care products) Laura moved to Phoenix, Arizona when she was in high school. But not being a fan of blazing heat and knowing that Uncle Sam was looking for a few good women, she enlisted in the United States Air Force shortly after graduation and spent the next five years flying a typewriter through Europe.<\/p>\n

Her lifelong dream of writing fiction came true in Spring 2005 with the release of her first chick lit novel, Dreaming in Black & White which won the Contemporary Fiction Book of the Year from American Christian Fiction Writers. Her sophomore novel, Dreaming in Technicolor was published in Fall 2005.<\/p>\n

Laura\u2019s third novel, Reconstructing Natalie, chosen as the Women of Faith Novel of the Year for 2006, is the funny and poignant story of a young, single woman who gets breast cancer and how her life is reconstructed as a result. This book was born out of Laura\u2019s cancer speaking engagements where she started meeting younger and younger women stricken with this disease\u2014some whose husbands had left them, and others who wondered what breast cancer would do to their dating life. She wanted to write a novel that would give voice to those women. Something real. And honest. And funny.<\/p>\n

Because although cancer isn\u2019t funny, humor is healing.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Laura\u2019s latest novels, please check out her Books page.<\/p>\n

A popular speaker and teacher at writing conferences, Laura has also been a guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows around the country including the ABC Weekend News, The 700 Club, and The Jay Thomas Morning Show.<\/p>\n

She lives in Northern California with her Renaissance-man husband Michael, and Gracie, their piano playing dog.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong> :<\/p>\n

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Sales clerk, barista, telemarketer, sign waver…<\/p>\n

At twenty-five, free-spirited Becca Daniels is still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. What Becca doesn\u2019t want to be is bored. She craves the rush of a new experience, whether it\u2019s an extreme sport, a shocking hair color, or a new guy. That\u2019s why she quit her bookstore job, used her last bit of credit to go skydiving, and broke her leg.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why, grounded and grumpy, Becca bristles when teased by friends for being commitment-phobic. In response, Becca issues an outrageous wager\u2014that she can sustain a three-month or twenty-five date relationship with the next guy who asks her out. When the guy turns out to be \u201cchurchy\u201d Ben\u2014definitely not Becca\u2019s type\u2014she gamely embarks on a hilarious series of dates that plunge her purple-haired, free-speaking, commitment-phobic self into the alien world of church potlucks and prayer meetings.<\/p>\n

This irrepressible Getaway Girl will have you cheering her on as she \u201csuffers\u201d through her dates, gains perspective on her life\u2019s purpose, and ultimately begins her greatest adventure of all.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to read the first chapter of\u00a0 Becca By The Book<\/a>, go HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Laura and her books on her Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MY REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Becca By The Book<\/a> is not the usual Christian fiction novel. For one thing, Becca is NOT a Christian and is resisting all efforts to get her into church. Her attitude is one I have often heard from young people – “I don’t have a problem with Jesus. It’s his people I don’t like.” Unfortunately, many of us have given them good reasons to form that opinion (and I don’t exempt myself). I hope that readers of this book will not take it as an attack on the organized church but as a wake up call about where we are missing it.<\/p>\n

Becca’s story is candid with plenty of comic relief. Her character is portrayed realistically. Like many young people today, Becca has a built-in radar for bogus Christianity. Maybe her perceptions are skewed because of her personal history but she believes that if she becomes a Christian her true self will be compromised. As the story progresses, and Becca is exposed to varied Christians and church events, her attitude begins to change and Becca begins to discover who she really is.<\/p>\n

The story does end rather abruptly and I was unsatisfied with the conclusion. Hopefully, it will be continued in a sequel. Nevertheless, I enjoyed Becca By The Book<\/a> and feel that it was well worth my time.<\/p>\n


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