Positive Choices -

I was given this book to write an honest review. 

As a social worker, I saw a functional dysfunctional family trying to fake functioning until it becomes a reality. The father Levi has been a workaholic and the family roles are similar to an alcoholic family.  There is the type A older daughter that has it all together in a neat calendar.  There is the alcoholic scapegoat and the younger lost child.  Compounding these dynamics is the aging patriarch and the changing of the roles from independent father to the frail adult child.  The daughters secretly blame him for his frailties while feeling shame that they don’t have enough time or compassion to deal effectively. Levi is not willing to be left out of the decision making about his life and wants his secrets to remain as such.  

If you like real to life adventures plan to purchase this one. You will not be disappointed.  

The following is a quote from the book insert: “In Levi Koenig, A Contemporary King Lear, the author seeks to right a wrong. In Shakespeare’s play of the same name, King Lear’s two older daughters, Goneril and Regan, are portrayed as wicked, conniving women, while the youngest, Cordelia, is goodness incarnate. In her novel, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson seeks to rectify this distorted view of family relations in general, and the part played by daughters in particular.”

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I was given the opportunity to review this book through Tomoson.com for my honest opinion.

A story of Daniel is a historical novel by Sholomo Kalo who is one of the most prolific writers in Israel and a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

I love that Shomo Kalo used imagination that is believable to add to the Biblical character Daniel and his friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.  The reader gains an understanding of the long journey to Babylon and the emotions of the loss of family and friends at home and the training it took to learn the Babylonian culture and language. The book ends with the appointment to a position in the court of Nebuchadnezzar. 

Overall this is an enjoyable reading.  I love books on biblical characters and the authors who embellish on the history to come to factual accounts.  I do have one complaint and that would be that I found myself lost many times in the book by the over use of “He” and “the Youth.”  There were several youths introduced and during a conversation “he” was used and I had to reread the paragraph to determine the correct individual who was talking or having a personal thought.

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