Where the River Ends

Reading Time:  Thursday, 9:00-11:15

So my wonderful sister, who always has a book in her hand, recommended this book by Charles Martin called Where the River Ends.  She warned me that I would be crying by the end and so far I think I will be.  So far, it begins with the husband, waiting outside their Charleston, SC home for a phone call.  He finally gets the call that his wife will not be accepted into the trial program for treatment.  He goes inside to tell her and she tells him that she wants to complete her list of the top ten things she wanted to do this year.  What she wants to do most is to travel down the river, a long and hard journey.  After he agrees and they start toward the river and to get supplies the book goes back in time to before they met each other.  I really like this because I really got interested in the characters by the intense beginning and then to be able to go back and really learn who they are and how they met is a great idea.  I think its a great motivation tool!  Leaving out some of the details because there are so very many, right now I am to the part in the book where he is at school on a scholarship to be an artist and she is the daughter of a senator.  He has just saved her from a violent attacker and just realized who she is.  She still does not know who saved her but is admiring his paintings from outside his workshop.  Hopefully this week when I read I'll get to find out how she finds out he saved her and how they had a relationship even though they are so different from each other.