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"Connections and Why They Matter"
Most of what happens in our life will spark a connection. Life connects with what has been found in books. Books connect with what happens in life. Use the connections to help you see more clearly. A love of reading and writing is what motivated the creation of this blog. Thank you for coming to the blog.
Bibi Blair is a talented 22-year-old writer who lives near the ocean in Newport Beach, California. One day while sitting at her computer, one side of her body starts to tingle, and she realizes something is wrong. Doctors run tests and determine that she has rare brain cancer. When the doctor tells her about cancer, her reply is just to say, “we’ll see.” Then the next day, cancer goes away, to everyone’s amazement.
At this point, Bibi’s parents insist that she meet with a woman called Calida Butterfly, a “diviner” who supposedly can uncover “hidden knowledge by supernatural means.” It turns out the method she uses is Scrabblemancy. It is just what it sounds like, an assortment of scrabble-type letters on tiles that provides the answer to questions by spelling out words. One of the words is Ashley Bell, and she is told she will live because she must find and save Ashley from a terrible fate.
The book shows how our lives are shaped by our memories, especially our childhood influences, weaving this theme into a plot that, even while being unbelievable on the one hand, holds our attention and suspense to the end.
