All That Matters: A Mother's Memories", by Janis Hogan, is a fresh look at the joy and sorrow of relationships as they change over time, particularly with our parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Filled with stories that will cause laughter and tears, this book will remind readers of their own lives.
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. . . rich in feeling, its author adept at plumbing the complexities of a woman's experience in the second half of the 20th century. -- STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE, Mar. 30, 2000
Each short story captures ordinary situations in family life that moment by moment affect our relationships as family. -- Voices, April 26, 2000
Filled with heartbreaking moments and tender memories, it is a testament to leaving behind past regrets and looking forward to fresh beginnings. -- The Sanford Herald, May 10, 2000
For business-woman Janis Hogan, it took a mix of passion, ability, elbow grease and intution to get memories of her family and experiences into print. -- Waterbury Republican-American, November 21, 1999
Each short story captures ordinary situations in family life that moment by moment affect our relationships as family. -- Voices, April 26, 2000
Filled with heartbreaking moments and tender memories, it is a testament to leaving behind past regrets and looking forward to fresh beginnings. -- The Sanford Herald, May 10, 2000
For business-woman Janis Hogan, it took a mix of passion, ability, elbow grease and intution to get memories of her family and experiences into print. -- Waterbury Republican-American, November 21, 1999
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"For more than twenty years," writes Janis Hogan, "I have chronicled my life and my children's lives with my stories. It helps keep the memories alive and close, reminding me of the value in every moment. There are thousands of moments I wish I could relive. Just as many I wish I could unlive. The moments I tried to preserve in my stories are those that taught me something, gleaming treasures that I may have passed right over when they occurred, but that glowed and sparkled with meaning when I rediscovered them." All That Matters is a collection of Janis Hogan's stories. In these pages you will find reasons to laugh and reasons to cry, poignant memories and embarrassing moments, exciting discoveries and devastating disappointments, momentous decisions and small breakthroughs, happy endings and new beginnings. Each story in this moving collection tells of a moment captured in time, from sitting at the kitchen table in her parents' house watching their evening ritual of greeting each other with a kiss to watching her own son kiss his girlfriend goodbye when he no longer wants his mother to kiss him in public; from complaining about her parents dancing to horrible old songs in the living room to happily dancing through the night cradling her colicky firstborn as he fitfully sleeps. The author writes with a rare grace and wit that is pleasing to the ear when read aloud and pleasing to the soul when read silently. She is first a mother, so the stories are often about motherhood, but All That Matters as a whole is more than that. Ultimately it is about changing relationships--relationships with our parents, our siblings, our life partners, and yes, our children.
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This book is not just for mothers (although for them it is a must). It is for anyone who looks beneath the surface of experience to the lessons learned from it. As Janis Hogan limns each significant moment in her past with her precisely defined prose images, the reader is drawn into the picture as an eyewitness--even more: as a participant. We rejoice and mourn with her, stand awestruck or are simply touched to the heart. Her moments become our moments, but what is more important she evokes the special moments in our own lives, the wonder of the human experience, our relationships with our parents, our children, our spouses, our friends: how they have transformed us and caused us to grow. It is a book for all those who rejoice in living.
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This book reminds us that the most important moments in our lives are day-to-day, minute-to-minute.
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