• Hardcover
• 290
• Rules for Visiting
• Jessica Francis Kane
• English
• 05 December 2019
• 9780525559221

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characters Rules for Visiting ✓ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB Y savors the pleasures along the way afternoon ice cream with a long lost friend surprise postcards from an unexpected crush and a moving encounter with ancient beauty Though she gets a taste of viral online fame May chooses to bypass her friends' perfectly cultivated online lives to instead meet them in their messy analog onesUltimately May learns that a best friend is someone who knows your story and she inspires us all to master the art of visitin 45 wonderful starsIt s never too late to learn about yourself It s never to late to reconnect to the people the things and the family that you love It s just never too late to live life joyfully yet uietly finding its fulfillment in the grace of friends and the power of natureThe power of friendship is a strong one There are friends who are like the trunks of trees ever steadfast and ready to be your strength There are friends who are like flowers bringing their bits of sunshine into a life that may be solitary and lonely There are friends who know you so well that they can pick up a conversation with you from years ago as if time has not escaped at allIn this most amazing book we meet May Attaway a uiet semi reclusive forty year old who connects better with the plant kingdom than she does with humans However May self imposed isolation is about to end as she is given time off from work It s time May realizes for a re connection to four of her friends so she sets off to visit each and every one of them This is not the stuff of an email a facebook look see or an instant message This is different and in the digital age we now live in May s connections are personal face to face and a look at what makes friendship a wonderful link to what makes us human It s the simplicity of friendship the binding that is understanding the love that is there but never stated I saw in my reading such a powerful link between the living world of trees and plants to the links and lines of friendship There is much beauty in the world and certainly ranked among that beauty is the glory of friendship flowers and trees They link us to the earth and as we are linked to our friends we find that in every relationship there is moments to savor to remember and to cherish Just as trees and plants grow and often flourish with care so does the blossoming and blooming of friendship This wonderful story makes one look inside and see that even in the digital age we can decide to isolate oneself and honestly isn t that sometimes the easiest way to go However in this story we readily see how wonderful the power is of having someone know you share your life and thoughts and to always be there to affirm that yes you are important you are valuable you are lovedI can t recommend this book highly It will be one of my favorites of 2019 and what a joy it was to share with two of my dear friends Jan and Victoria Read it share it and be grateful for all the world has given you Every so often without any fanfare a book comes along silent as the night and literally explodes into a story that blossoms with love and the need for it to go on For in this kind of book it is sad to see an ending for it has invoked in you all kinds of wonderful feelings love and desire to be betterTo see our duo reviews

characters Rules for Visiting ✓ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year At forty May Attaway is at home with plants than people Over the years she's turned inward finding pleasure in language her work as a gardener and keeping her neighbors at arm's length while keenly observing them But when she is unexpectedly granted some leave from her job May is in Thank you to the publisher Penguin Press for providing an advance reader copy via EdelweissMay Attaway is forty single childless and still living at home with her widowed father She s a graduate of the Landscape Architecture program at her local university Landscape architects design harmonious natural plantings to augment a campus parking lot playgroundor other public terrain Once she graduated from the program she took a job at the university with the grounds crew If you are a gardening enthusiast I m not you will probably love this book Talk of numerous trees flowers bushes and gardening tips pollinate each chapter liberally like overgrown vines on a building There are also lovely drawings of various trees throughout the book May plants a yew tree on university grounds taken from a cutting she procured from a legendary 3000 old tree in a Scottish churchyard A poet in the English Department was inspired to write a poem about it and won a 50000 prize In turn the university recognized May for instigating and executing the planting of this tree which resulted in publicity for the school Her prize was a generous amount of paid time off which she used to visit four longtime friendsMay really isn t the visiting type She also never has people over to her own house Her mother died years ago under mysterious circumstances that are not revealed until the very end of the book Mom kind of checked out of life at a certain point and took refuge in her bedroom May s brother went to college out in California and decided to stay there He hasn t been home in years She s aware of her neighbors but for the most part keeps them at arm s length Her father is much neighborly often gifting neighbors with flowers and plants May is invited to a going away party on her block for a couple looking to downsize after their kids moved out of the nest She notices that her name is included on an engraved silver platter that was gifted to this couple from their friends She also notices that there are many references and sayings about friends on various decorations in the kitchen It s as if this idea of friends is suddenly swarming around her and she s inspired to use that gift of time off from work to visit each of her four friendsMay is just a tad socially awkward and thinks of cliches to respond to conversations she s lured into All her friends moved away and most were married with children It sort of feels like she s the outlier the suare peg still living at home unmarried no children Her travels take her to locales such as New York London and Scotland Never having a guest over herself May learns the social graces of visiting when presented with her guest rooms dealing with children and gift giving It s interesting watching how other people live their lives who have taken a different path I think the most enlightening takeaway from this book is how May wished her friends would just let her be part of a normal day in their lives rather than their taking special pains to visit a flower show or special restaurant I actually identified with this character a bit except for the gardening passion of course I also enjoyed the uiet and simple nature of the writing and story There is an unexplained detachment I felt while reading this book almost like I was looking through a cloudy window As I peruse other reviews for this book they seem to be in the 4 5 star range I was really surprised by this so I must be an outlier For me it was a good book but not great As May says in the beginning of the book I read books but not always the best ones

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characters Rules for Visiting ✓ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB Spired to reconnect with four once close friends She knows they will never have a proper reunion so she goes one by one to each of them A student of the classics May considers her journey a female Odyssey What might the world have had if instead of waiting Penelope had set out on an adventure of her ownRULES FOR VISITING is a woman's exploration of friendship in the digital age Deeply alert to the nobility and the ridiculousness of ordinary people Ma It seems to me that your oldest friends can offer a glimpse of who you were from a time before you had a sense of yourself Rules for Visiting is a lovely meditation on friendship the importance of a community in whatever form that takes and on being open to life The text moves along smoothly It is an observational novel with a tinge of melancholy hanging about it And really isn t that a bit like everyday life Taking in the things around us and living in that area between joy and sorrowThe protagonist is a 40 year old botanist named May Attaway She was an English major in undergrad as was I and I loved the references this aspect of her character allows the author to use Some were insanely specific and every time I caught one it made me smile in recognitionAt one point the protagonist says I suppose what you are reading is my attempt to settle There s a story I ve been trying to tell one about friendship and friends and what place they have in a life and one I ve been trying not to tell about my family Does that make me an unreliable narrator To a certain extent aren t we all And folks that is the novel in a nutshell The author Jessica Francis Kane wonderfully fulfills the execution of this taskI had a library copy of the text and had to fight the urge to annotate all over the place Here are some moments in the book that I thought were worth remembering Midway through my fortieth year I reached a point where the balance of the past and all it contained seemed to outweigh the future my mind so full of things said and not said done and undone I no longer understood how to move forward I have always assumed others have and better friends I registered these events the way one would a cold snap strange but refreshing Halfway through life I was not sure what I d made The solitude has a way of loosening memories and when they start to unfurl I m at risk of being blown off course People rarely like to be reminded of what they once thought maybe I don t understand the pleasure of compromise when you re in love Because certain things only come into focus when a person is gone It s sad but true You need memory and loss to polish your thoughts I do believe in the power of words and stories to make sense of things If nostalgia is the recovery of something lost but with a difference I m likely to be swamped by it Rules for Visiting was a novel that captured me and made me think on the mundane that makes life lovely I appreciate it for that Its conclusions could just as well be my own I have very few friends and not one of them is replaceable May you settle and find good friends