The Reminisce (Book) - 1/31/2018 6:46:05 AM
The sign of a good book is when the reader feels invested in the characters and how they fare within the context of the plot structure, and author Cherryholmes creates a world that shows a snapshot of life in a dying New Mexico town, one that is fraught with ghosts, memories, and feelings of the past that come creeping around uninvited.
The characters of Curtis, his sister Dia and her lover Araceli, and their employer, the elderly Veronica, help paint a picture of how the strange mind of Alzheimer's patients can be both strange and exciting on separate lines, sometimes crossing each other to intersect at the point of where memories become reality. It's a hauntingly sweet story that draws the reader in and doesn't let go until the very end.
The Reminisce (Book) - 11/29/2017 5:40:25 AM
You Just Have to Let Go and Follow the Unexpected Events of This Spellbinding Novel
The book Reminisce by H. L. CherryHolmes has an interesting, fascinating mix of characters and storyline. Let’s start with a hunky guy, kind of a ne’er-do-well type, getting by on his charm, whose finance takes off her engagement ring which Curtis Aisling surreptitiously pockets and takes to a pawn shop. in the shop, he finds himself dodging a bullet that should have killed him and he also loses what he came to pawn.
Having nowhere to go with very little money in his pocket, he reaches out to his sister Dia for her support so he can pick up the pieces of his misguided life. Off he goes to enchanted New Mexico, to a deserted town, where his sister and her partner work as live-in caretakers in the grandest home in town taking care of the 90 something woman named Veronica Meeks living there in the late stage of alzheimers. The invalid hasn’t spoken a word for months and when Curtis meets her she talks, but only he can hear and his sister doesn’t believe him.
The mansion holds mysteries and secrets. Very unexpectedly, Curtis’ presence unlocks the past in a panoramic, episodic way that takes him into the memory of a younger, flawlessly beautiful Veronica revealing the jagged edges of her life. At first Curtis is clueless about these excursions into Veronica’s past but soon enough he begins to understand he is gifted with prescience, a gift he never knew he possessed and doesn’t particularly know what to do with or want. Curtis also begins to fear he is being subsumed by the older women with whom he has a connection that he can’t explain. As visions come to him, he time travels into Veronica’s past and meets up with the characters of Veronica’s earlier years, meeting them in various empty rooms of the mansion which suddenly come alive with people, music, intrigue, and secrets that only Curtis can see.
I won’t give away anything else about this book. You will want to read it and savor the interesting parade of characters, read about the ability to rewind time, and the transformation of a man into a much bigger version of himself. The book enthralled me and I found myself staying up almost the entire night eagerly turning pages. This book is a wonderfully entertaining read which will also acquaint you with New Mexican brujas who unexpectedly turn up in the story adding extra dimensionality to the plot and subplots!
A Slight Touch (Book) - 7/13/2008 10:49:34 AM
have read. you are right. "Storytelling - it's as simple as THIS."
do not stop. it is so easy. give us more.
