Sorry that I suck at blogging, okay? Steve keeps threatening to kick me out of the blog if I don't post. It was a very busy year which made my terrible blogging skills even worse. I did however keep a list of what I watched and read, so I decided it would only be right for me to do my part in reaching 400 posts this year.
The Language of Flowers is a lovely book about a girl
turned women who has had a rough upbringing. She has some real trust issues
which lead to misbehavior and she bounced from foster home to foster home growing
up. One foster parent tried real hard to connect with Victoria. She first
introduced her to the so called “Language of Flowers”. Each flower represents a
meaning and can be used to depict emotions and feelings. Something mysterious
and awful happens with this foster relationship which leads to her running away
and not speaking to Elizabeth (foster parent) for a very long time. When she is
18 and living on the streets, she finds that she has some skill in arranging flowers
and grows close with a local florist. She begins to make a living and even
reconnects with someone from her past, Elizabeth’s nephew.
Spoiler Alert! What brought me through most of this book
was the intrigue at what the large event was that forced Victoria away from a
loving and almost permanent home with Elizabeth. Turns out she burnt down
Elizabeth’s wine vineyard and blamed it on Elizabeth’s nephew, who actually
felt guilt about the whole thing. After you find out that, it seems odd that
the nephew would forgive Victoria and actually have a relationship with her. At
one point, Victoria and said nephew have a baby but she doesn’t tell him and
she freaks out and leaves the baby unattended for a bit. She then decides she
can’t take care of a baby (partially because breast feeding was painful…) and
drops the baby off at nephew’s home in a bed of moss which means maternal love.
Generally, leaving your child is not considered maternal love, but oh well. He
doesn’t know he has a child but he takes care of it then takes Victoria back
years later. Seems a little unrealistic, no?
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