Grab Out Of The Blue Translated By Sally Mandel Shown In Document

enjoyed this book and I could relate as a person who has had MS since their teens, I too went through not liking the ABC drugs and went without by having myself treated with steroids as needed.
I have experienced every episode the character in the book did, I also went through the period of thinking there was acceptance, but there was not,

I do think the author described emotions and symptoms perfectly, The fear of entering a relationship was so accurate, it made me wonder if the author had MS,

I do think that things could have been told more succinctly while keeping the emotion and accuracy of the disease.
I feel like this book could have ended afterpgs, That said, I did very much enjoy reading, At once heartwrenching and funny, poignant and provocative, here is a rare novel about finding the courage to take a remarkable leap of faith.
Smart, funny Anna Bolles, a born athlete and a dynamic teacher, figures God decided to have the last laugh when her life was tragically and irrevocably changed five years ago.
Since then she has kept herself firmly grounded in the present with the door marked "future" shut, Anna's days are filled with the vibrancy of summer in New York City where she takes joy in the details, the sensual assault of an airconditioned museum and a perfectly baked muffin.
She relishes her role as an observer to the dramas played out around her from the adolescent courtships of her private school students to the turbulent love affairs of friends and colleagues.
Yet Anna never dares to open her heart, except to the father who has drifted from her and the mother who sustains her, until the one thing she didn't think could happen becomes a twist of fate that may just set her free.
Until Joe Malone.

Joe Malone, pilot, businessman, amateur photographer, is a man who has everything except happiness,

Though he's notorious for his short attention span, he sees in Anna a world of possibilities, Maybe Joe, a man who has only been skimming the surface of life, has finally found a perfect place to land.
He thinks he wants a life with Anna no matter what and seems willing to risk everything to be with her.
But can he trust himself enough to give their deepest dreams the chance to flourish

Through laughter and tears, from the depths of heartbreak to the pinnacle of joy, Sally Mandell never fails to remind readers of the things that matter most in life.
Now she haswritten her most dazzling novel yet a very special story about two unique people whose love comes from seemingly out of the blue.
My Original Thoughts:

Great fluff! I couldn't put it down, Romance. Humorous. Didn't cry, but got choked up, Not great literature, but entertaining, A perfect beach read. Engrossing, yet light. This author is one that I'll keep my eye on, She's written four other books, but they're all out of print,

My Current Thoughts:

This isn't the sort of book I'd read now, but I obviously enjoyed it quite a lotyears ago.
Did I go on to read more by Mandel Nope, Sweet love story with the main character coming to terms with M, S. Very good information about M, S. The book arrived in a plain brown wrapper a former grocery bag, the best kind of mailer,
It was a gift from the sisterinlaw who is usually the recipient of books I send!
I sat down to read it and didn't get up until I had finished it.
. . seriously.

Anna Bolles,years after the onset of Multiple Sclerosis has stopped her athletic life in its tracks, stops to study a photograph in an exhibition.
The photographer unknown to her stops to study her, The rest is history. Very well written history.

In romance novels there are always bumps between "boy meets girl" and "they get married, " Those bumps are where the artistry is displayed, Anna's early refusal to acknowledge that she has feelings for Joe, her reactions to Joe's mother's behavior, her appreciation for Joe's father I won't go further, and most of all her refusal to see that the MS is not the most important part of the equation, make her part of the story engaging.


Joe and Anna's mother's relationship is another delightfully colorful aspect of the book, In fact not only their relationship, but their own personae and those of the several other important people in the novel make the reader a silent participant in a group of people who become very human.
. I was sorry to finish reading this book,

This is a seriously good read, Interesting book

I read the book, found it to be very interesting but it didn't captivate me and I cannot put my finger on the reason why.
The story was good, the characters were real, the writing was good but for some reason I looked forward to the end of the book.

Maybe it was my headspace while reading the book, I have read only"romance" novels in my life,
P. S. I love you and this, The former because I loved the movie, This was downloaded on my kindle by mistake but it kept me hooked because the first person narrative is similar to how I think.
The imagination, the insecurity, the sense of responsibility,

Other than that, it's like a hallmark movie, Comfortable, cozy and too good to be true Superbe histoire pleine d'émotions et qui sonne tellement vraie, Aprèslectures, il me fait toujours le même effet que la première fois, A lire! Read/I can relate to some of this story as I also have MS, However, I cannot relate to Anna not wanting to take meds out of her denial of the disease, . . what Its really the other way around! I wanted to be on meds ASAP so as to hide any symptoms I had so no one could guess what was going on with me.
You cant deny/hide your symptoms if they are out there in plain view, so that really did not make sense to me at all.
One thing the author explained in a new way that I liked was this idea of an “alien” taking over your thoughts and the words that come out of your mouth when you have MS, that is really true.


I did not appreciate the expletives in the story, they were not necessary and really added nothing to the flow of the story, so one less star on my vote for that alone.
The author has great vocabulary, so it was a shame she weaves in junk slang, waste of time, This book was on the “staff recommendations” shelf at our library, so I decided to give it a shot, Ironically if the description had been more explicit I would have dismissed it as one of those woman overcomer romance books.
But it was far more than that, While not profound or particularly exceptional in terms of story, Out of the Blue is the first book Ive read that provides a fairly realistic portrayal of MS with its terrifying unpredictability and the way it undermines a persons sense of possibility.
Kudos to Mandel for not treating it as a death sentence or romanticizing the physical breakdowns and loss of control.
A Teacher with multiple schlerosis and her sassy mother live in NYC, The girl falls in love with an airline businessman, Very good.
Anna Bolles is an English teacher at a private New York City school and is battling Multiple Sclerosis, She meets businessman and pilot Joe Malone at a photography exhibit and the two enter into a complicated romance, As someone with Multiple Sclerosis who is the same age as Anna in this book, I adore reading her story unfold.
I've not found many books that depict MS, much less as accurately as Sally Mandel has with this character, I felt so seen and understood and loved this book because of that experience, The romance feels authentic, albeit fast paced and the characters seem genuine, This book was so gawdawful, I made it one chapter and one page before tossing it aside, And that was FORCING myself to read it,

Page: I set my brake in front of the photograph,
. knew I was going to be a while looking at it,
Page: He grabbed the handles of my chair and pushed me
, out the doors.

WHAT ABOUT THE BRAKE, IDIOT!!

Page: "I could hear Ma buzzing in my ear: 'Whoa, there, Annie you're in deep doodoo except she wouldn't have said doodoo.
I suppose it's my form of rebellion I never use what I consider to be vulgar curse words, except to quote Ma.
"

Only you just quoted Ma and DIDN'T use the curse word, now did you And wouldn't Ma's VOICE be buzzing in your ear, not Ma, herself

Page: "It wasn't until we'd left the restaurant for the part that I got him to open up.
I use the term advisedly since he imparted information in such a detached manner, "

First, you didn't use the term advisedly, Second, what the HELL is 'advisedly', anyhow And third, YOU are imparting information in a detached manner,

I hated this pretentious, horribly disconnected, uninteresting and terribly written book, I've never in my LIFE stopped on page, completely sure that something was so bad that it didn't deserve more of a chance than that.
But here it is. The first deemedworthlesswithina meredozenpages book,

Do. Not. Bother. read aboutpages predictible God, That was so beautiful, reading this book, I couldn't stop crying during the last part of it, It was just awesome. .