In which poster A tells of a real-life situation he or she is involved in; poster B responds with a novel (or collection of short stories, but it must be fictional) which he or she thinks will be helpful, insightful, or otherwise useful to t poster A; and then poster B mentions a situation from his or her own life for which he or she would like a book recommendation. If you don’t mind, can either summarize the book in question or provide a link to an amazon or b & n page doing the same, or both.
Example: say Poster A is my brother who was long estranged from our mother and did not resolve it before her death. I’d reply with Beach Music, by Pat Conroy. It’s the story of Jack McCall, an expatriate South Carolinian living in Italy with his young daughter; he has not seen his family for nearly a decade, but returns home when his mother is in a coma with leukemia, and while there is told the stories of his mother’s childhood, his inlaws experiences in the Holocaust, and more that help him reconcile with his family.
I guess I’ll begin: I’ve begun dating a much-younger woman, and I’m a little nervous about how things will proceed as they grow more serious. Any recommendations?