Dandyflowers

"Dandyflowers is of its self a great story line. With many things that life throws at us, Dandyflowers walks you through living, laughing and truly loving.

I recommend this book for any age, from young to old, you will see life in a totally new perspective and learn what true love is all about."
Sarah R. Hammell

Sarah Hammell is a Junior at Umatilla, Oregon High School.  She is a veracious reader who "consumes" books as if her life depended on it. 

She is an aspiring Christian Missionary & journalist.

"A treasure can be anything to a person. It could be a person  you want to marry, a keepsake from a person’s past, it could even be a secret. Sometimes those treasures are meant to be shared. "Dandyflowers" is a story about one of those times.

Recently engaged, Erin Collins receives a timeless treasure of her own from her father, Jerry. He shares with her a special love story of when he met his first love, Laura Butler, in a small Missouri town where they experience the 1960’s. "Dandyflowers" lets the reader experience it too, in a whole new light.

It’s hard to believe that this story is fictional because it was incredible. With each character, with each page, you fall in love with it a little more.

Jerry told his daughter about his first love to show her what true love is like. I found a love story that I could not put down because it had great moral values. Because of that underlying moral base, the reader will connect to the story a little more deeply.

Jerry and Laura’s story will live through the ages. It truly shows what true love is and that’s what makes it memorable. It’s "The Notebook" meets "Love Comes Softly" and is perfect for everyone."

Rachel Robinson

Rachel Robinson has always been an avid reader but the passion for reading increased when she was diagnosed 3 years ago with RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) a painful nerve disorder causing her to be in a wheelchair. Rachel may not be as mobile as she’d like, so reading takes her to so many places through the stories she reads. Rachel wants her friends and fellow teens to realize how much fun reading is so she started MyBkClub.com to spark their interest. Rachel shares her passion of reading through book reviews on her site and hopes to encourage teens for a long time.

www.mybkclub.com 

"Love [him] with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your passion all the time. When he comes home treat him like you haven't seen him in a month. Love him! Don't waste any time fighting or arguing. Love him! Even when he seems unlovable, especially when he seems unlovable, love him!...Love with all you have."

Take a journey with two ordinary people as they live and love an extraordinary love.

Jordan T. Maxwell tells a story of an unknown, amazing life, and a love that will captivate the reader and keep them holding on until the very last word on the very last page.

Imagine what it would be like to find a treasure in an attic as a child, and then to one day rediscover that treasure through the eyes of its beholder to learn that it's something so much more than you could've ever imagined.

Dandyflowers is story of a father who's kept a journal regularly since he was in high school. Over a weekend he shares his secrets with his soon to be wed daughter, wanting to give her his advice about love, and from beginning to heart gripping end, the reader is privy to a wondrous life, filled with a rare love that is more easily dreamt of than obtained.

I read this book in one day and found myself unable to put it down. I laughed, loved, lived, and cried right along with the characters, and was sad to see the story end. I've read many books, but rarely has one moved me the way Dandyflowers did. It's a thought provoking look at love that makes you stop and think about what is truly most important in life.

Dandyflowers is a tale of love that is paradigm of what love should be: unconditional and never ending.

I highly recommend this book, and anxiously await its sequel.

-  Adie Bishop, Author of Search 26

"Search 26 contains poems on themes that have affected everyone at some point in their lives: love, loss, desperation and above all, hope."

"DANDYFLOWERS is a beautiful, heartwarming, and heartbreaking book.  Erin is about to be married to Jack.  She is also about to learn more than she ever knew about her father, Jerry. 

Erin is a bit embarrassed when her father suggests she visit for the weekend so he can have a "love talk" with her.  She reminds him that she had the "birds and bees talk" years ago with her mother.  He assures her this is something different.

The talk begins with a startling revelation - Erin's father was married once before he married her mother.  It was to his high school sweetheart and their love story is a beautiful one.  Readers of this book are taken on a precious journey as Erin's father shares his yearly journals throughout his high school years and a few beyond.  She learns how me met and fell in love with his first wife Laura.  The chapters feature details of their relationship that will make readers feel they are living day to day right along with the characters.

Maxwell has crafted a story rich with detail and emotion that had me at times laughing, at others swallowing a lump in my throat, and finally wiping away the tears.  Teen girls dreaming of a future love will be sucked into the story and richly rewarded if their futures eventually offer them even half the love felt in this book."

- Sally Kruger 

Sally Kruger, a self-proclaimed "Readingjunky",  is an English teacher from Morenci, Michigan.  She has taught for 29 years and plans on teaching for at least 6 more.  She has  more than 2,000 books in her classroom library  which she makes available to her students.

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