It Will Rain: A book of essays, by Dina Kucera
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Strong. Brave. Inspiring. This is how people described her, and she embraced these compliments because she enjoyed being complimented. Even if inaccurate. Her prayers for a happy, healthy family were answered. They survived. She survived. “I lay down one day to take a short nap and didn’t get out of bed for eight months.” For eight months, she was not strong or brave or inspiring. For eight months, she couldn't breathe and couldn’t get out of bed because her heart felt broken. But why? It Will Rain is a book of essays. Dina Kucera is either a stand up comic and humor author, or the sky is black and she is doomed. She doesn’t visit the middle very often. It's black or white. Never beige. So the writings in this book are exactly that—an exact interpretation of her life. Sad, funny. Traumatic, hilarious. Writing this book made it possible for Dina to make her way toward redemption, faith, and hope. Seeking redemption is an act in itself that requires bravery. So she is strong after all.
It Will Rain: A book of essays, by Dina Kucera- Amazon Sales Rank: #2167108 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .38" w x 5.50" l, .44 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 166 pages
About the Author Dina has been a writer and stand-up comic for more than twenty years. She lives in Phoenix with her husband John, her daughters Jennifer, April, and Carly, and two grandsons, Moses and Matthew. She hopes to sell enough books to buy groceries and beef jerky.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. This is one of the best books I've read in a while. Unique & Honest! Besides it's free on Kindle today. You've nothing to lose~ By BookLover This is a lighter read than Kucera's first book 'Everything I Never Wanted to Be'. Loved that one so much,I was giddy to learn a new book by Dina awaited! Planned to save it to read poolside, but I couldn't stop reading it after perusing the first few paragraphs.This book is written in a unique format that made it so easy to read. I'm a not a linear thinker where time is concerned and this book is perfect for someone who thinks of life and time as more of a circle than a straight line. Each chapter is like it's own little really good book. The book is filled with vignettes about author's life. She is self depreciating but not to the point of making the reader feel bad for even reading it. It's just that she's very self aware and with that gift comes things she wants to "fix" about herself for lack of a better term She's open but also very protective of her loved ones making their way into her writing.If you like memoirs in which the author struggles with something that you can relate to, 'It Will Rain' Is Perfect. She hits on topics most of us are familiar with either through our own struggles or we've walked through it with a child, spouse.She doesn't make light of issues like depression, illnesss, aging parents, addiction~ One thing she does that we don't offen see in books with such painful topics is this: Dina didn't even try to wrap the story of her life and the characters up in a neat bow. She seems to have a clear appreciation that life, unfortunately, doesn't work that way so she did something that I've not noticed any other author of a memoir do. She left everything open with the understanding things aren't predictable, truth is (which I find to be terrifyingly true) We cannot FIX our teenage/adult children. We cannot get well for them. The same can be said for our spouse/partner, adult siblings, aging parents.Over all it's witty, but not so over the top that you can't appreciate the pain she sometimes feels.The message I took from this book is some days with be those perfect days where you feel like anything is possible. Your mood is good, you feel alive. You think maybe your brain chemicals finally clicked and it's smooth sailing from here on out. It's not. It was just a good moment. Live in it and appreciate it. Also, those days where you think you can not possibly handle one more thing. You're convinced the entire world hates you, every negative thing ever said or thought about you is true. And God forbid you say..."it couldn't possibly get any worse" Well....you get the point.She reminds us everything is temporary. Laugh when you can. If you can make someone else laugh, that's as good as it gets.You are going to be YOU no matter what. If you married Brad Pitt, got your dream job, could redo your 20s~ you are who you are.Eventually some really hellish days happen where your convinced the best thing you could happen to you is you win on Let's Make Deal and get to choose curtain number DEATH. You ask God to give you someone else's terminal illness (I've done that. Embarrassed to even admit it)Those days are as temporary as the days where you marvel at your parenting skills, the fact painkillers or cigarettes haven't entered your mind (until now anyway.... Crap ..) But you're strong TODAY and you will be tomorrow and the next day. Plus you have a tiny waist and the fact three people did not believe you were beyond your mid 30s shows you have finally gotten this life down pat. You are officially a happy person! Those days are also temporary.Overall message I took for her wisdom. Most days kind of fall in the middle somewhere. Some of us are blessed or cursed (depends on how you view it. When we stray off of that chart that seems to hover mostly little ups and down. Some of us have notice peaks and valleys.~~~~~~~^^^^^---------VVVVVVVVV~~~~~~~ (worst visual ever. I get it) but I'm thinking of it like a heart monitor in the hospital. This would show be our days dictated by moods or moods dictated by things that happened in our days.Everything is temporary. Make someone laugh when you can.Don't try to fix your loved ones because it's not possible.If they are worth loving no matter what ,continue to love them. Sometimes that means loving from afar until the crisis ends. Sometimes the ending does not have a little row bow on it. Endings are also temporary, like everything else.Great follow up to ~Everything I Never Wanted to Be~ Highly recommend that one as well. You don't necessarily have to read that one first, but it does help you to know the backstory on the names mentioned in this book. That said, this book doesn't seem to be set up as a part 2 for that one.Huge Fan. I won't be annoying and start bugging you about release dates for book #3. YET.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. " & it did not disappoint! So much I could relate to By BE I've waited for this book, since reading Dina's first book "Everything I Never Wanted to Be." & it did not disappoint! So much I could relate to. One minute tears are streaming down my face & the next, I'm laughing! So real & heartfelt. Thank you Dina, you give me hope!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Amy Schumer Meets Deepak Choprah By Kimmy's Korner It Will Rain begins with the chilling inner thoughts of a person on the brink of suicide. You won't laugh at the first chapter. You will wonder what's going on. The emotions leak onto the page like a wound. The first chapter is jarring but it is so gently mind blowing that I had to remind myself to breathe. From there Kucera chronicles the eight months she spent mostly in bed, stuck in a state of depression. You wouldn't think that there would be moments of levity in a book such as this but the author is a genius at getting her readers to see the real/ridiculous side of bad luck. When you can step back and find a lightness in the horrible times, or laugh at how terrible life is right now, that is a gift. And we get to benefit from this gift in the form of two books. I LOVED the first book, Everything I Never Wanted to Be and I ADORED this book.As we follow Kucera through the year she spent in bed, trying to take control of her life and find a semblance of hope somewhere in a life that had finally started to turn around, we are treated to a raw honesty that makes the reader want to phone the author to say "I feel this way too!" The writing is not only crisp, succinct, and intensely personal, it is entertaining with sentences and thoughts woven together to form a tapestry of greatness. Kucera talks about dumbing down the messages of the universe delivered by enlightened ones like Deepak Choprah, giving us a message we can actually understand, process and use. This means everything when writing inspiration for the regular person. If I have to sit around and wonder what someone means for longer than a few minutes, I'm moving on. I hesitate to say that Kucera dumbs anything down because this is a woman who is a deep thinker, a wordsmith, someone who relates to the everyday person, but her take on depression and then spirituality was so easy to understand that this ADHD reader kept with her until the last sentence of this book and read every single word. The final few chapters were so beautifully crafted that I've been thinking about the way she describes her personal relationship with "God" for days before writing this review. If, like me, you don't want to be preached to, you will find her take on religion interesting. I found it relatable and inspirational.Reading Dina Kucera is like finally finding another human to talk to, after living on a planet of aliens. I'm pretty sure everyone who reads this book will feel the same way. It Will Rain should be required reading in mental health wards and for anyone who ever suffered from depression. Personally, I highly recommend this book for anyone on anti-depressants, knows anyone with depression issues, or has down days. For everyone else, it will be a window into the center of the mind of depression on any level, written by an extremely intelligent, witty mind.
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