Take a Look at the Five and Ten

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So, short, sweet, Christmas with a really adorable and lovable older woman, some mean step family members and an MC to root for. What more could you possibly want? Ahoy there me mateys! I received this sci-fi eARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. So here are me honest musings . . .

She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. She also has one daughter, Cordelia. What I am NOT looking for, are songs like Bowling for Soup's "1985" which are written after the dateHe’s going to have a whole bunch of my flashbulb moments to choose from if he keeps this up, I thought. (c)

No, it’s not,” Sloane said. “It’s boring beyond belief, so, Ori, whatever you do, don’t mention Christmas shopping or snow.”

humorous Christmas tale. Featured is a dysfunctional, amalgam of somewhat related family members interacting during the holiday season. Our main protagonist is Ori who finds herself invited to a slew of never ending holiday dinners ... starting with Thanksgiving and culminating with a New Year's Eve buffet.. At age eight her mother was briefly married to Dave .... and he still considers her, his daughter., and hosts these endless gatherings. Dave has been married more than six times, and has always made poor choices ... including her mother. Usually in attendance are the usual suspects. Aunt Mildred, actually a great-aunt of Dave's second wife and Grandma Elving, the grandmother of his fourth wife. Aunt Mildred is forever pointing out the failings of the younger generation and the vast superiority of the "good old days" . Her speeches always turn into lectures and she seems to complain about everything. While Grandma Elving cannot be deterred from telling the same story I’m not the only sort-of-relative he invites. There’s also Aunt Mildred, actually a great-aunt of Dave’s second wife, and Grandma Elving, the grandmother of his fourth. Got all that straight? I know, but I’m not talking about happiness. I’m talking about joy, which is a totally different emotion. People think of them as the same thing because they’re both positive emotions, but I don’t think they are. Happiness is a warm, pleasant, all-over kind of feeling. Joy’s nothing like that. It pierces right through you, and it’s so intense, it’s almost painful, and I think that’s the kind of experience Grandma Elving had standing there, looking out the door at the snow, a sort of…” I faltered, groping for the right word. There is method to his madness. His research project involves TFBM ... Traumatic Flashbulb Memory, and he feels that her story has all the earmarkings of this phenomena and enlists her aid as a participant in the project. This also engenders the need and commitment of Ori .. which may have a secondary effect?