Phyllis Ring Finds Leslie Handler's New Memoir "For the Heart"

• Title:  Rats, Mice and Other Things You Can't Take to the Bank
• Author: Leslie Handler
• Website: LeslieGoesBoom
• Genre: Memoir/Humor/Essay Collection
• ISBN: 0-9994127-3-6 
• Link to Purchase the Book
• Available in paper, e-book
• Twitter:Twitter for Leslie Handler

Reviewed by  Phyllis Ring originally for Amazon

THE REVIEW

Reminds how humor keeps us stronger and kinder

When I begin to think of others with whom I want to share a book, even start ordering copies for them before I’ve finished reading it, I've found a book that serves the heart.

Leslie Handler's warm, transparent -- sometimes fearless -- perspective clears out inner cobwebs like a rush of springtime air. Her writing strikes a welcome balance between humorously forthcoming and gently poignant. I've previously enjoyed essays she publishes as syndicated columns. This collection shines a lovely light on life’s true wealth, the willingness to develop and apply the healing capacities of compassion, fair-mindedness, and kindness, along with fortitude, forbearance, and faith. Faith in grace, in others, and in life itself.

The author has experienced a pretty large serving of difficulties along her path. Her response is, for me, one of the gifts of this book as it reminds of the freedom, and power, of reaching for appreciation, humor, and joy together with honesty that’s not afraid to face life fully. Her willingness, at times, to write from deep vulnerability helps this reader feel a lot better, and hopefully kinder, about being human. There's much sweet wisdom woven in with the observant wit here.

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