Confessions of a Sister Out of Time [Paperback]

Marna Hale Leaks (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: 1st Book Library (November 19, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585001589
• ISBN-13: 978-1585001583
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,210,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brings back childhood memories, April 19, 2001

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Curtis Gage (Wickliffe, Ohio U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Confessions of a Sister Out of Time (Paperback)

Marna Leaks'Confessions of a Sister Out of Time is originally set in Columbus Ohio. Although the book has a deeper theme, I especially liked the childhood stories. For example, at the beginning of the book when Ramona Preston's parents went abroad, Aunt Maggie came to stay. The kids talked Aunt Maggie into taking them to the Ohio State Fair where they bought a pair of chameleons. Before long the chameleons are lost in the parent's bed. Being from Ohio, I've also seen the purchase of chameleons by unsuspecting patrons with some of the same disasterous results! I had to laugh out loud. The teenage years were just as hilarious.

Leaks skillfully linked Ramona's life to Gerald Fizgerald who was a slave master in the 1800's. As a matter of fact, she linked nearly every character in the book to characters who lived in the pre-Civil War era. These links provide insight to the problems of the modern day circumstances. If you have a problem with this book, I suggest you read Journey Of Souls by Dr. Newton for backgound information.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New Look At Race Relations, February 9, 2001

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Rick Pace (Atlanta, Georgia U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Confessions of a Sister Out of Time (Paperback)

Confessions of a Sister Out of Time explores the idea that we all spend time as a member of the different human races. What a concept! Ramona Preston, a black woman, finds out that she was once a white slave master who negatively impacted the family of a person she loves today! Ramona is able to straighten out her life and find happiness. Will the rest of us be so lucky? I think this book is a "must read."

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring, March 26, 2001

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Dee (New York, N.Y. U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Confessions of a Sister Out of Time (Paperback)

Confessions of a Sister Out of Time is a story about a young woman in love with a man, and enough in love with life to go through great measures to find out why things in her environment are dysfunctional. Ramona Preston loves her brother and his children, who have been brain washed by their mother to hate him.

What Ramona finds out about herself, and who she was in a prior life would cause cognitive dissonance in most of us. A mystery unravels as she learns the connection between a past life in New Orleans, Louisiana and the life she leads today.

Ramona Preston is in a hurry to find answers before her parents die. She is also "out of time" through reincarnation. The PROLOGUE says it all:

"There's life and death and life and death And life and life you see. My soul lives on revolving waves, forever flowing free. So why won't we remember the sound, the beat the drum? The Guides, the lights the humming. The home were we are from? Must it take a mystic, to reach the other side, When each of us have memory, our conscious problems hide?"

"There's life and life and life and life, We must learn to improve, Our weary days and wicked ways, Stop plotting to abuse. How can I show remorse for all the pain I've caused? How can I skip the karma of Universal Laws? I've got to find the secret of who I really am, There's no more time to linger, I'll find out if I can."

"My brother needs his children. The children need the Truth. My parents need affection, derived from missing youth. One day I tricked my lover, who thought I was a friend. This lifetime he's devoted, to getting love's revenge. Too late to do it over, can't show myself as kind. A member of a family ... A Sister out of Time!"