What We Leave Behind (Audible Audio Edition) Rochelle B Weinstein Casey Turner Audible Studios Books
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It is said that our lives are a sum total of the choices we make, which inevitably leaves us to wonder what if? What if we had the chance to go back and live what could have been? What We Leave Behind hones in on the fleeting moments and stand-out events that irrevocably change our lives. The book chronicles the life and emotional growth of Jessica Parker as she frees herself from the past and moves forward with her future.
At 16, Jessica is managing the emotional trauma of her father's death while surrendering to the profound pain of a failed first love. Jonas Levy, a 22-year-old medical student, has abruptly walked out of Jessica's life after an intense summer romance, and the wounds are still raw. Is it possible to ever forget the boy you first gave your heart to?
Jessica eventually moves on and in her 20s becomes a successful music supervisor in Los Angeles. She marries film producer Marty Tauber, starts a family, and appears to have it all - until things slowly begin to unravel. The marriage struggles through a miscarriage and becomes harder and harder to sustain. With an unexpected phone call from New York, a secret from Jessica's past comes to light. As the rippling effects of her betrayal emerge, Jessica finds herself caught in the firestorm of long-hidden emotional trauma.
Thrust into a modern-day moral and ethical dilemma, Jessica must face the pain of her past or lose everything she holds dear. Will she be able to reconcile old feelings in time to salvage her marriage?
An honest, tender, and poignant portrayal of love in its many forms, this heart-wrenching novel will resonate with any woman who has questioned her past and wondered what could have been.
What We Leave Behind (Audible Audio Edition) Rochelle B Weinstein Casey Turner Audible Studios Books
I, on the other hand, was able to put it down.I got a fourth of the way through it before finding myself bored silly by a recollection of an adolescent crush. I found the characters very unbelievable. I found it difficult to believe that a fifteen-year-old stranger with a crush on a twenty-two-year-old Harvard medical student would be so happily absorbed into the bosom of the family of a terminally ill man into which she had pointlessly inserted herself. I found it not romantic, but infuriating, that the twenty-two-year-old guy has both families' acceptance and encouragement in pursuing a romantic relationship with a tenth-grader. (If she had been my daughter he would have been in jail.) The protagonist's level of introspection, although explained as a consequence of her above average intelligence, is simply not credible. It is not intelligence alone which gives us introspection, but a degree of life experience that is simply not possible to accrue at fifteen years old. We are supposed to accept that the death of the protagonist's father, which occurred when she was little more than a toddler, has conferred this great wisdom upon her. The crush, itself, does not ring true-to-life. It reads like the fantasies I cultivated over youngish celebrities when I was fifteen, not like any real-life saga. I mean, how many twenty-two-year-olds are so well connected to the captain of a yacht as to arrange a private daytrip to Catalina, with the accompanying elegantly served private luncheon at a charming but unknown bed and breakfast? (Again, we are assured that this girl's mother has given her blessing to this arrangement.) Last, but not least, there were so many anachronisms that I was not sure just what decade the story was set in. Sorry, but there is simply too much good fiction out there to waste anymore time on this one.
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What We Leave Behind (Audible Audio Edition) Rochelle B Weinstein Casey Turner Audible Studios Books Reviews
Jessica is 15 (almost 16) when she develops a huge teenage crush for Jonas, a 22-year old med student. Jonas' dad is dying and is being treated at a hospital in Santa Monica/L.A. area where Jess' mother works. In some ways Jess is 15 going on maybe 30 but then, in other ways, she is definitely only 15 without emotional experience or life experience, although she doesn't she herself that way. Her father died on her 4th birthday and she carries a load of guilt and grief from that having happened. The part of her that is 15-going-on-30 feels absolutely certain that if only she can get Jonas to experience the 'all' of her, he will realize they are meant to be together and he will break up with his med-school girlfriend, Emily. But Jonas certainly does not act on impulse (or immaturity) as Jess would want him to do. So he goes his way back to med school after his father passes and Jess is left pretty much broken hearted (again).
Jess continues her life and, because of her phenomenal talent for knowing every kind of music and being able to mentally catalogue every song she's ever heard, she eventually (after college) winds up with a solid career in the entertainment/music/movie business. What interested me in getting this book in the first place was it's setting as my daughter lives in Santa Monica and works on the periphery of that same industry.
Jessica falls in love again and this time the man loves her back about as much as any man could ever love a woman. Alas, Jess once again has a loss in her life and, once again, she blames herself for it having happened and then goes into just the biggest funk. About the middle of the book, I was so annoyed with her inability to just deal with the negatives and losses and then concentrate on everything wonderful that she had been given - that I truly wished I could step into the book and smack her a good one. Feeling this way, however, did not dissuade me from continuing to read to find out how it would all turn out for her, for her husband, and for Jonas. In the end, I was very glad the book ended as it did. If there had been a different (and there certainly could have been) ending, I would have felt let down and quite disappointed. As it was, I felt the author toys with her readers by having such a huge secret in the book that is not revealed until much, much later.
Although it started off a bit slow, the author did a beautiful job of capturing my attention and holding it throughout the book. The character of Jessie came to life for me and I understood her life story as I turned the pages. There were places where I thought maybe I missed a section of the story because the author jumped ahead with details of Jessie's life, but I soon learned that everything was explained in the page or pages to come. It was this technique of Ms. Weinstein's that only added more depth, interest, and enjoyment to the overall plot. The only thing that I did not understand later in the book, was Jonas addressing Jessie as "Grace." Unless I missed something, this was never explained. Those who have read this book know what I am referring to, and if it can be explained, I would like to know. I was surprised that this was a first book for the author. It is refreshingly well-written, free of grammatical and editorial errors, and flows beautifully and smoothly. When I needed an explanation as to why the main character, Jessie, was acting the way she was, I got it from the author, and I was not left wondering why Jessie was choosing to make a choice or live her life a certain way. I looked forward to going back and reading this book each time I had to put it down and do something else. And I didn't have to practice my speed reading, which is always an indication that I just want to get through a book and just want it to be done. I would definitely recommend this book and plan to read Ms. Weinstein's next book, The Mourning After.
I, on the other hand, was able to put it down.
I got a fourth of the way through it before finding myself bored silly by a recollection of an adolescent crush. I found the characters very unbelievable. I found it difficult to believe that a fifteen-year-old stranger with a crush on a twenty-two-year-old Harvard medical student would be so happily absorbed into the bosom of the family of a terminally ill man into which she had pointlessly inserted herself. I found it not romantic, but infuriating, that the twenty-two-year-old guy has both families' acceptance and encouragement in pursuing a romantic relationship with a tenth-grader. (If she had been my daughter he would have been in jail.) The protagonist's level of introspection, although explained as a consequence of her above average intelligence, is simply not credible. It is not intelligence alone which gives us introspection, but a degree of life experience that is simply not possible to accrue at fifteen years old. We are supposed to accept that the death of the protagonist's father, which occurred when she was little more than a toddler, has conferred this great wisdom upon her. The crush, itself, does not ring true-to-life. It reads like the fantasies I cultivated over youngish celebrities when I was fifteen, not like any real-life saga. I mean, how many twenty-two-year-olds are so well connected to the captain of a yacht as to arrange a private daytrip to Catalina, with the accompanying elegantly served private luncheon at a charming but unknown bed and breakfast? (Again, we are assured that this girl's mother has given her blessing to this arrangement.) Last, but not least, there were so many anachronisms that I was not sure just what decade the story was set in. Sorry, but there is simply too much good fiction out there to waste anymore time on this one.
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