Gideon's Gift
Written by Karen Kingsbury
Narrated by John McDonough
4/5
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Karen Kingsbury
Karen Kingsbury, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist, is America’s favorite inspirational storyteller, with more than twenty-five million copies of her award-winning books in print. Her last dozen titles have topped bestseller lists and many of her novels are under development as major motion pictures. Her Baxter Family books have been developed into a TV series now available everywhere. Karen is also an adjunct professor of writing at Liberty University. In 2001 she and her husband, Don, adopted three boys from Haiti, doubling their family in a matter of months. Today the couple has joined the ranks of empty nesters, living in Tennessee near four of their adult children.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This is a good little story. It is supposed to be inspirational, but it tends to be a little sappy instead. I think this is intentional in a way. It is what it is and it isn't much more. I think Kingsbury has done much better work, particularly A Time to Dance, which was a stronger work with a lot more conflict. However, Kingsbury has a penchant for syrupy sweet endings. Those have their place, but sometimes, life isn't like that, and we don't see that toughness in her work, making it a smidge one-dimensional. Still, not bad for a short read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This may be a small book, but it is a story of a little girl who has a large heart when it comes to loving and sharing and concern for others. It was a story that brought to me many different emotions as I was reading it. It is a story of hope and believing in miracles at Christmas and seeing them happen.I liked the way the story started and then flashed back in time and then flashed back in time again. Earl is a man who gave up on life and finds himself living on the streets; and it took Gideon, a little girl struggling with a life threatening disease, to help bring him back to God. Gideon and her family were a joy to read about and even though they had their struggles, they had each other and that is what really mattered. I read this in one evening and when I finished I came away from reading this book with a desire to reach out to others the way that Gideon did. What a remarkable little girl she was.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great story. I cried almost the whole way through this book. This is a story about Gideon a little girl with a heart and soul big enough to hold the whole world only thing is her little body is thin and frail and sick with leukemia. She is a little girl from a very poor family. In this book is also Earl a homeless man living on t e streets of the same part of Portland. He meets Gideon at the shelter when she is helping serve dinners and after she tries to befriend him she he is rude to her , the second time she gives him a Christmas gift and he is mean and shove it in his pocket , days later as she is laying in the hospital fighting for her life and he is in the cold rain in an alley .. he opens the gift and finds the most prized gift in his life a pair of red gloved that was stolen from him on night on the streets, he starts to believe in God , goes to the mission to find away to contact the lil girl finds out she is very ill in the hospital he explains his life to DJ the guy who runs the mission , sets up a wonderful Christmas and check to give Gideon the treatment she needed to save her life and a wonderful Christmas at that