Checking Out, a look at the life of Catherine Graves

Somehow, I ran across the story of Catherine Graves and her struggle with life as she learned her husband, whom she thought was having and affair and or affairs with other women found out he only had months to live because of a rapidly growing tumor in his brain. My thoughts after reading her heart jerking true story of part of her life.

05/25/2011

Well, UPS brought Catherine Graves book to me today (05/25/11) with the title of "Checking Out". It is about how she seen life through her eyes when she finally figured out her most loved husband John would be dead shortly from a brain tumor.

How she survived going through that part of her life (NOT well) and the year or so after that, while she struggled to get back on her two feet, finally figuring out she had two children to care for and a business to run.

She just about crawled down a hole and pulled it in after herself, but loved ones would NOT let her do that.

On her road to recovery, she was misfortune enough to run into a shark-sleezebag of a person masquerading as a man. He proceeded to use her and abuse her greatly as such beings are known to do, driving some of her long time friends off never to return... because she wouldn't open her eyes and SEE how she was being used by a dishonest person. After a year of that she finally got on the road to recovery and got reconnected with her family, her son and daughter.

I highly recommend it, it has more than several places in the book where the ink didn't print clearly, leaving it blurry so I could hardly read it. And then I figured out there was nothing wrong with the printing, that it was my eyes that were blurry from the tears in them. Once I wiped the tears away the print was clear again.

So, yes, it does have its tear jerker passages, making a person cry right along with Catherine and her dying husband, John.

She does well at making the book a smooth flowing story of her heartaches and how she finally returns to the living, crawling out of her self pity. It is a wonder that Catherine made it, it was touch and go for a while but finally seen the light that her children and friends did love and need her.

There ARE a few errors in the book, such as doubled paragraphs and such, or hiring a private detective a few pages apart, but still, it is an excellent read, and reads quickly. I really enjoy books that keep my attention and flow smoothly. Catherine has done well for her first book.

Hears hoping you are having a happy time in life again, Catherine. That you are loved and can love back again, starting with family and friends. Other people to love WILL come into your life, but do not try to rush it. I think that you possibly learned THAT lesson from Mr Sleezebag M. in your book.

I give it five stars, Catherine, Kudos!