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HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
Life is all about romance. Get your candles, soft music, wine and chocolate ready because you won't be able to put this page-turner down.
"I never dared look directly into those soft intelligent brown eyes of his; the second I did I was lost. I could not trust my own eyes fearing upon contact they would shamefully attempt to make love with his. Eventually, at some point, he’d touch me. Fire. He’d touch me and our lips would touch, too, and the chasm of passion would swallow us both. Mankind’s inborn and perpetual thirst for heaven would carry us away as swiftly as birds in flight. Not another word would be uttered for hours. Instead, our mouths communicated a deep silent primal language of passion.
I never felt it was lust, Ralph never tore at my clothes, we never undressed, we never left the couch. These kisses would go on and on as if we’d submerged into a time-warped world, like being underwater or in utter darkness where time doesn’t exist and the only sounds you hear are your own breathing and his, your two hearts beating, and your inexhaustible need for this communication to go on. All my worldly cares of kids, laundry, PTA, jobs, homework, soccer games, and basketball practice would disappear. It would get very late and Ralph would go home. And it might be three or four months before I would hear from him again."
Darkly funny and uncommonly frank, Lucy Bell recounts an unforgettable emotional and spiritual journey from darkness and error to light and knowledge, her sense of isolation, unfulfilled longing and struggle for personal fulfillment, to finally arrive at love’s threshold feeling the joy and peace of having discovered her proper place in the world.
Healing, like the gaining of wisdom, is not a power outside your self. A young woman breaks up her sham of a marriage to a husband whose less-than-honest dealings do more harm than he will ever admit, embarks on a journey to independence and authenticity, then in a poetic vision falls madly in love with an erudite mountaineer who proposes from the top of a 8,000-meter peak only to disappear in the glint of an ice storm. Between the explained and the unexplained a mystery lies.
"I never dared look directly into those soft intelligent brown eyes of his; the second I did I was lost. I could not trust my own eyes fearing upon contact they would shamefully attempt to make love with his. Eventually, at some point, he’d touch me. Fire. He’d touch me and our lips would touch, too, and the chasm of passion would swallow us both. Mankind’s inborn and perpetual thirst for heaven would carry us away as swiftly as birds in flight. Not another word would be uttered for hours. Instead, our mouths communicated a deep silent primal language of passion.
I never felt it was lust, Ralph never tore at my clothes, we never undressed, we never left the couch. These kisses would go on and on as if we’d submerged into a time-warped world, like being underwater or in utter darkness where time doesn’t exist and the only sounds you hear are your own breathing and his, your two hearts beating, and your inexhaustible need for this communication to go on. All my worldly cares of kids, laundry, PTA, jobs, homework, soccer games, and basketball practice would disappear. It would get very late and Ralph would go home. And it might be three or four months before I would hear from him again."
Darkly funny and uncommonly frank, Lucy Bell recounts an unforgettable emotional and spiritual journey from darkness and error to light and knowledge, her sense of isolation, unfulfilled longing and struggle for personal fulfillment, to finally arrive at love’s threshold feeling the joy and peace of having discovered her proper place in the world.
Healing, like the gaining of wisdom, is not a power outside your self. A young woman breaks up her sham of a marriage to a husband whose less-than-honest dealings do more harm than he will ever admit, embarks on a journey to independence and authenticity, then in a poetic vision falls madly in love with an erudite mountaineer who proposes from the top of a 8,000-meter peak only to disappear in the glint of an ice storm. Between the explained and the unexplained a mystery lies.
604 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 15, 2016
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About the author
Kathryn Hurn
1 book5 followersAn avid traveler, backpacker, artist and literary enthusiast, Kathryn is also a 30+-year fitness professional and yoga teacher. She has two grown sons and lives in Salt Lake City where they have the world’s best snow.
You can find her along with her social media links, discussion questions and more at:
http://www.kathrynhurn.com
HELL, HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN is available at Amazon.
You can find her along with her social media links, discussion questions and more at:
http://www.kathrynhurn.com
HELL, HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN is available at Amazon.
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May 1, 2017
It took me almost a month to finish this book. Was it so long that it deserved that time or was it so intense that I couldn’t read more than few chapters a day?
This book was more like reading someone’s diary than a women’s search for just love. It was her entire journey from where she realised who she was, what she has done and how to make the difficult decision of moving on and what follows.
If I wasn’t gifted this book to read and review by the author, I would have probably given up somewhere in the middle. But I just needed to do justice to it and believe that it would make a difference. Somewhere I was so engrossed in Lucy’s emotions that I started feeling those in my relationship as well. Somewhere I just wanted Lucy to move on and to get what she wanted out of life. I knew she and the love of her life would end up together. Kathryn gave that up in the beginning of Volume 2, but how and how long would her ordeal last was not explained. I felt Lucy had the patience of a Victorian heroine something which seems to reoccurring in modern times – while one part of us fights to be independent the other wants to be loved and be provided for irrespective. Ambition does not take away the desire to be loved. Work does not satisfy us emotionally as it would a 21st century man for whom money is more important than a loving relationship.
The book takes you on a journey and you need to patient to let it unravel for you. My three star rating is for some loose ends in the book and the ending. It feels like it could be better rounded off than rushed into given the pace of the earlier portions. I definitely feel it could be way shorter and edited some more.
This book was more like reading someone’s diary than a women’s search for just love. It was her entire journey from where she realised who she was, what she has done and how to make the difficult decision of moving on and what follows.
If I wasn’t gifted this book to read and review by the author, I would have probably given up somewhere in the middle. But I just needed to do justice to it and believe that it would make a difference. Somewhere I was so engrossed in Lucy’s emotions that I started feeling those in my relationship as well. Somewhere I just wanted Lucy to move on and to get what she wanted out of life. I knew she and the love of her life would end up together. Kathryn gave that up in the beginning of Volume 2, but how and how long would her ordeal last was not explained. I felt Lucy had the patience of a Victorian heroine something which seems to reoccurring in modern times – while one part of us fights to be independent the other wants to be loved and be provided for irrespective. Ambition does not take away the desire to be loved. Work does not satisfy us emotionally as it would a 21st century man for whom money is more important than a loving relationship.
The book takes you on a journey and you need to patient to let it unravel for you. My three star rating is for some loose ends in the book and the ending. It feels like it could be better rounded off than rushed into given the pace of the earlier portions. I definitely feel it could be way shorter and edited some more.
April 28, 2017
Disappointment and Love!
Volume 1 was a quick read it was about Lucy Bell growing up and all her opportunities. Highschool sweethearts, broken hearts, being chased and being married for the sake of not being alone. (I heard of a similar story in a family).
Volume 2: was very long, I was on Chapter 11, when my youngest boy asked how many chapters are there in the second part? I counted from where I was 92 of course I could have counted wrong. But it took me awhile to digest all of it. Then I was wanting more. That I was reading three chapters a day to divulged into it, savor every moment of everything that was mentioned. What a brave soul to find herself in all of her dealings. I definitely would recommend this book to anyone who wants an in depth of reading. Thanks to Kathryn four improving my vocabulary, I feel smarter now and my want to reads have grown. I was at like 500 something and certain books she mentioned I put on my want read list so became over 600 something. She also helped me in a book I have in my mind I have a title for it.... Its getting started that I am having a problem with... But I will not let anyone get in my way. What a lovely read. Thank you for letting me read your book!
Volume 1 was a quick read it was about Lucy Bell growing up and all her opportunities. Highschool sweethearts, broken hearts, being chased and being married for the sake of not being alone. (I heard of a similar story in a family).
Volume 2: was very long, I was on Chapter 11, when my youngest boy asked how many chapters are there in the second part? I counted from where I was 92 of course I could have counted wrong. But it took me awhile to digest all of it. Then I was wanting more. That I was reading three chapters a day to divulged into it, savor every moment of everything that was mentioned. What a brave soul to find herself in all of her dealings. I definitely would recommend this book to anyone who wants an in depth of reading. Thanks to Kathryn four improving my vocabulary, I feel smarter now and my want to reads have grown. I was at like 500 something and certain books she mentioned I put on my want read list so became over 600 something. She also helped me in a book I have in my mind I have a title for it.... Its getting started that I am having a problem with... But I will not let anyone get in my way. What a lovely read. Thank you for letting me read your book!
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