{"id":31035,"date":"2023-05-15T12:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31035"},"modified":"2023-07-08T19:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T00:43:09","slug":"book-report-im-here-for-a-purpose-by-ladonna-greiner-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/15\/book-report-im-here-for-a-purpose-by-ladonna-greiner-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: I’m Here For A Purpose<\/i> by LaDonna Greiner (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookFull disclosure: I sort of know the author as she has volunteered with my beautiful wife in a local entrepreneur’s group (well, she was there before my wife, so perhaps I should say “My beautiful wife volunteered with this author.”) So when I saw that she, the author, was having a book signing downtown (not yet at ABC Books) on First Friday Art Walk night, I dragged my wife and my youngest downtown to get a copy.<\/p>\n

Ms. Greiner is a photographer and avid hiker, and she often hikes alone. The book talks about those hikes, hikers who get lost, tells the story of how she got lost trying to get a photo of a sunset but made it to camp and to her husband only a little late, and then culminates in the story of how she got lost on a hike and spent a night in the forest whilst thunderstorms raged and the temperature dropped to near-freezing before hiking some number of miles in the morning to rescue (and then to a series of events that would not be believed in fiction).<\/p>\n

The book is relatively short (117 pages), leavened with the author’s photographs. It’s professionally laid out (which as you know, gentle reader, I can appreciate<\/a>, or at least do<\/em>). Not only that, but the book builds the story–I confess, I knew what the book was about when I started it–starting with some anecdotes about taking photographs, sometimes in dangerous circumstances (it starts out with photographing alligators on the bayou in Louisiana) and then a little about getting lost, building to almost dying<\/em> at the end and then d\u00e9nouement which is its own story.<\/p>\n

Okay, so I liked the book. How much? I read it in a single night, and then we tracked her down at Artsfest in Springfield the next day to buy another book as a gift. And if she ever makes her way to ABC Books for a book signing, I’ll have to think of to whom I will give that copy as a gift. But hopefully I will have some time. Maybe Mrs. Shepherd. Who likes to hike? Who likes photography?<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, I would be remiss if I did not mention that she credits God for her survival, and the book is also a testament to her faith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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