Link Love Sunday

I am only sharing one blog for Link Love Sunday today because I have a lot to say on this particular blog I'm sharing and when I find something good, by george I want to give it my full attention.

Big Blue Barn West

Aims from Big Blue Barn West came out of lurkmode to one of my posts awhile ago and I am SO glad she did.  I don't know how she found me but some things you don't question, you're just grateful it happened.  If someone new stops by my blog I always like to visit their blog and see what they're all about.  Sometimes it can take me a good month before doing so, but I always do manage to get over for a visit.  I'm glad I didn't wait a month to go visit Aims, although I do believe it took me that long to comment on her blog for the first time because hi, I am Joy and I am a lurker to most blogs.

The first post I clicked onto was this one and if you have ever lost a pet you will understand her anguish.  I couldn't write a comment that day because I had something in my eye by the time I was done reading her post that prevented me from seeing the keyboard. 

Aims is writing a book.  Now if you have been blogging for any length of time you know if you click on 20 blogs in one day, probably 17 of those blogs are people who are hoping to be writers.  Or say they are writers.  Or...well whatever.  There are a whole lot of people in this world who want to write a book.  I am thankfully not one of them.  So when I clicked over a second time to Aim's blog and saw she was writing an excerpt from her book in progress...and because I am nothing if not honest I will admit...I said to myself "Oh bruuuuuuther.  Not someone else who thinks they are a writer."

I know.  What a mean thing to think.  But before you get your panties in a knot for me admitting such a thing, I will also say I am a fair person and thought "Ok.  I'll read this post to see what kind of book she's writing."  Then I read more.  And more.  Then I took a break to put eye drops in because I don't think I blinked once while reading her story.  Then I went right back to the very beginning of Aims blog.  Then I was thankful my kids were teenagers and can fix their own meals because I couldn't stop reading.  Oh lordy Aims is indeed a writer and I believe wholeheartedly she is writing a book people will want to read.  And if they are anything like me, they will not be able to put this book down.

The book 'in progress' is Aims true story and it's called The Wailings.  It is only a glimpse into the book she is writing and I love how she 'talks' and explains certain things in posts and also how she is feeling when she wrote/writes them.  Sometimes the memories of our past....*sigh*...well thank goodness they are just memories.

Aims starts introducing her book here and I am here to tell you you will feel like you are right there with her as she goes through the brutality of youth in the very first post she shares.  You will also feel slightly tingly and oh so wrong when she shares the first time the man she loved hit her.  Ok maybe it was just me who felt tingly and oh so wrong, but I still couldn't stop reading.

The story continues and you will feel the joy when she meets her best friend and then your emotions will change again in the next post as it looks like she is leaving 'the beater' for good.  You will smile as the story moves on to her and her wonderful nephew and then to how she purchased the namesake of her blog, the beautiful Big Blue Barn West.

But it doesn't end there.  Oh no.  You will find yourself so hooked that you will quickly get up on a saturday morning, make yourself a nice pot of tea, quickly shuffle into your office, turn on your computer and impatiently wait for it to turn on.  While you're waiting for the computer to boot up and do whatever it does to get you where you can log in, you catch a frightfully scary reflection of yourself in the office mirror and realize even though you took the time to brush your teeth, you missed combing your hair that is strategically standing on end all over your head.  But you won't care, because you have more to read over at the Big Blue Barn West and your hair could fall out at this moment and you wouldn't care.  Because you just want to keep reading.  You then hope and pray Aims has written a new post so you can continue where you left off.  And when you click on her blog you will finally, finally, FINALLY read the meeting of her true love.

Anyone else see the emotions you go through as you read Aims story?  Is that not what everyone looks for when reading a book?  You want to feel sad, excited, you want to be grabbed, held tightly and maybe even hold your breath as you wonder what's coming next!  But most of all you want more!  Oh man, I think I need a cigarette.

Aims delivers all these emotions and more and I feel lucky to read her story.  I hope The Wailings is a huge success when published because heaven knows this talented lady deserves it as she pours her heart and soul into her writing.

Comments

[bermudabluez]

Wow. I mean really....WOW. It's going to take me several sitdowns to read that blog. Her writing is amazing.

[Willowtree]

Your posts are as long as a book...so technically you can be considered a writer ;)

[Pat]

After having read your post - Michele sent me by the way - all I can say is this. Whatever you do, don't visit my blog 'Past Imperfect'. You will only regret it. Remember now:)

[Shephard]

Thanks for the heads up on a quality writer. I love it when people share and point the way to blogs of note. Another great use of a blog.

So glad Michele sent me today.
~S

[Dawn]

Oh, you said so much more than I and so much better. I will be putting a link here and to her blog in my post later. Thanks for telling the world too. I know she will appreciate your words. She is truly a gifted writer, and now that I have digested for a couple days, I feel I could write more, but I won't because you have and I will have people come here for a second opinion.

[frannie]

what a wonderful endorsement!!! sounds like a great read!

[Robinella]

You are such a wonderful blog friend. I want to read hers but I think those "things you get in your eyes" will greatly hinder my vision and render them incapable of seeing.

Maybe I'll have a peek...

[aims]

Oh Joy. I am totally overwhelmed by this. I am almost speechless with what I have read from you - from ColoursofDawn - and from Rotten Correspondent.

If I can make a difference someday in someone's life with the telling of this story of abuse - then all the agony of the experience, and then the agony of the writing - will have a good ending.

I have a daily reading book entitled "Younger by the day" by Victoria Moran. In it she says to say aloud - 30 times a day - a phrase you want to believe in. Mine is "I have a destiny".
If I say it enough - it might come true.

[Debbie in a Patch]

Thanks for sharing. I will have to check out her blog. I am not a writer. If I had to write a book it would be short and sweet. There was a person. Some stuff happen to them. The End. :D

[Aoj & The Lurchers]

OK, I am so not going there until Fun Monday is over. And then I promise I will give Aims' blog the full attention it looks like it is going to deserve!

[Swampy]

Thanks for the link...I read her story and can oh, so, relate.

[Sirdar]

Dawn is all over this one too as you know. She was telling me about it on the way home from watching Untraceable. Sounds like it is very interesting to say the least. Enjoy it and hopefully you will get to know a "real" writer.

[Sirdar]

Uh...the real writer I was talking about was Aims. After I read my comment, it didn't sound right.

[Lisa's Chaos]

You're the second person's blog I've read about her on. Hmmm.