Stolen Moments

By Barbara Jeanne Fisher

Book Overview

Stolen Moments is the heart-wrenching account of Julie Hunter's battle with lupus and her growing love for Don Lipton. These two characters initially clash as Don does everything he can to push Julie... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894169778
• ISBN13: 9781894169776
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Essence Pub
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A Gentle Story of Releasing One's Feelings

I don't usually read love stories about dying people, but this book grabbed me emotionally. What I liked best about the book was the way Ms. Fisher used her lead character's writing to become a pathway to expressing emotions, both for Julie Hunter and for those she loves. The released emotions then had a healing effect on all around. I also thought Ms. Fisher handled the descriptions of dying with lupus in a sensitive and convincing way. Finally, her descriptions of nature and places are outstanding. You will feel like you are really there. This novel is structured around an opening scene that displays the developed love between Julie and her creative writing professor, Don Lipton, after Julie's death. Then the book moves backward through flashback, and eventually reconnects to the opening scene. Those who want a lot of surprises will probably not find this book very exciting. It's more like a ride on a carousel than on a rollar coaster. Those who are interested in psychological evolution will find the plot interesting.Here's the story line: Julie, the heroine, decides to go back to college now that her daughter is grown and married. Unfortunately, she has an incurable disease, lupus, which means she will not live much longer and is quite ill. She wants a college degree in mathematics, a long-time goal. Her husband Robert owns a company in town and is facing a crisis in his business that has him totally preoccupied. He is also having trouble facing up to the seriousness of Julie's illness. Julie's daughter, Cheryl, is about to give birth to a son, and is having a ball with her husband Tom. All of this is sidetracked when she has to take a course in creative writing from Don Lipton, who both annoys and challenges her to give writing her best shot. In the process, her writing improves, she learns why Don Lipton is such a grouch, and she begins to use her writing to heal. I felt inspired by this book to look around me to see who else might be hurting, whose brusque manner simply hides pain that needs to be released. As a writer, I found myself encouraged to put more of my own emotions into future works to the help the reader find her or his own lessons. That's a lot of insight to get from one novel. Thank you!

Excellent reading

I started this book and could'nt put it down-what an excellent book.I had never read books by the author before but look forward to read more.

WONDERFUL BOOK!

I usually enjoy mystery books but this book was one of the best. I have read hundreds and hundreds of books but only one other book touched my heart so much to make me cry. This author makes you feel the emotions of the characters. Read this book!

ONE BEAUTIFUL BOOK!

I started to read Stolen Moments as a favor to a friend of mine. She insisted I at least give it a try. I did! For the next day and a half I was burried in the book, I became one of the characters, and I had every emotion within me brought to life. I laughed and then I cried. Don Lipton reminded me of one of my past professors, and Julie is very much like myself. .It was exciting to see their relationship turn to love. So many books go to extreme measure to relate sexual encounter, but this was love in it's truest form, and ever so pure. I would suggest this book to anyone who wants to be reminded how precious life is/ and how soon it can be gone. Great job, Ms Fisher, hope you have another book soon.

A FANTASTIC BOOK

I am not one to read romance novels or anything with illness in it, but a friend of mine told me about Stolen Moments, so trusting his insticts I tried. . .I could not put it down. Never before has a story touched my heart and soul in this way. What a beautiful love story. . .one might call it perfect love. The book also inspired me so that I have found renewed courage in facing obstacles in my own life. Hats off to this very special lady who has found a way to touch people's hearts with her own.