I Run A Novel edition by EL Phoenix Christina M Frey Literature Fiction eBooks
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A Celebration of the Human Spirit
Sometimes Hilarious, Sometimes Heartbreaking, but Ultimately Inspiring
When Sally Lane Brookman gets hit by a Metro bus, it shatters her suburban world. But it does more than just damage her body; when she begins the long and painful process of physical recovery, she realizes that she's broken in more places than any doctor could ever see.
Confronting addiction, abuse, mental illness, and a hell she can't escape, Sally drags her past into her present and desperately tries to flee both. It's not until she puts her future in danger that she realizes it's finally time to slow down.
With exuberant energy, humor, and sometimes painful honesty, the quirky Sally takes the reader along on a modern odyssey a sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance.
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I Run A Novel edition by EL Phoenix Christina M Frey Literature Fiction eBooks
This, my friends, is an exquisite book. It is the very essence of the word: fine, beautiful, intense and carefully crafted down to the tiniest detail. It tells the tale of Sally Brockman who is trying to, initially, outrun the pain of her abusive childhood and later realizes she needs to run through her pain to reach the transformation, healing and redemption she seeks.Sally, the main character in I, Run, had a childhood very similar to my own. I’ve read books where characters shared my background. But never before have I found a book where the author so perfectly captured the aftereffects that I have endured in the decades since my abuse.
I read this book perpetually repeating, “Yes”, “Yes”, “YES”. It was my experience captured in words. It was validation that I wasn’t alone. To say the story was relateable is an understatement. It threaded itself through my entire being, touching my mind, body, heart and soul. Farris gets it. Period.
If you are a survivor you will read this book and walk away feeling understood and validated. While not every survivor has the same experience, I believe we share many similarities amongst our outlooks on life and assessments of ourselves. She understands the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder we struggle with, the strength we have to muster each and every day just to cope, and the perfection we strive for in order to prove ourselves worthy.
She also addresses two issues which not every other book about survivors does: spirituality and addiction. Sally’s faith was knocked out from under her as a child. But she desperately craved it. She needed to know there would be someplace good to go after this life was over, someplace wonderful that would make all that she endured in this life pale in comparison. There had to be something better, safer and more full of love than this life. Because if this life is all there is then there is no hope. Sally eventually finds her faith, but not after she questions and struggles like most survivors do with this critical element of healing.
Farris also does a wonderful job of addressing the aspect of addiction in recovery from childhood abuse. Based upon my experience, both as a survivor and as a therapist who works with survivors, self-medicating is VERY prevalent for adults and teens abused as children. Talking about abuse, admitting we were abused, is still a very taboo thing. Once one gets into therapy recovery is a very hard thing. But something needs to take the edge off the pain and PTSD symptoms in the immediate moment. So we self-medicate with drugs, alcohol, food or self-harm. My choice has always been food. Sally’s choice is marijuana. It makes our worlds bearable, at least in the moment. But it is even more shaming to talk about than the abuse. So to have Farris address it so openly is a gift to survivors everywhere.
I highly recommend this book to survivors, partners and friends of survivors, therapists and, because of the spiritual element, to ministers/priests/lay persons. It sheds so much light on the mine field that child abuse plants before the victim for decades to come. It isn’t all miraculously over when the abuse ends. There are miles and miles to travel and hundreds of mines to navigate before we have peace.
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I Run A Novel edition by EL Phoenix Christina M Frey Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I think that the only way I can get past the 29% of the book that I have already managed to read is to vent my frustration on the repetitive theme that doesn't seem to have an end. The book in my opinion is totally disjointed and doesn't flow although the original theme is quite interesting. I try not to leave a book without finishing it but this one might be one of those rare cases. If I do manage to get through this stage I will write another review because this is like those reviews on cooking recipes where the reviewer gives the recipe 5 stars but admits to have made so many changes to the original that it is a totally different recipe. I can't change the book as I could a recipe but I can change my opinion on this book if I decide and have the patience to give it another chance.
I Run is a novel of riveting emotional intensity by award winning author E.L. Ferris. Marathon runner Sally Brockman, a housewife of a successful attorney, freelance writer, left a career in law to stay home with their 3 small children. Brockman was seriously injured when her SUV was hit by a bus causing a roll-over traffic accident. As she slowly recovers, she deals with multiple health issues epilepsy and ADHD, working with OT/PT to regain her physical strength, and addiction to pain meds, marijuana, and nicotine. Brockman also reflects/contemplates her emotional anguish from severe childhood neglect/abuse.
The only person taking her late night phone calls is her best friend Beth. Beth a retired therapist discusses "Little Sally" Brockman's inner child with her, she keeps appointments with her regular therapist as well. Will, her husband and children are particularly supportive. During a mental breakdown Brockman demands a divorce, Will feels she is his "soul mate" and they work through her difficulties. At times the story seems to be moving in slow motion, as it seems it should be moving at a faster pace, perhaps due to the theme involving marathon running.. The writing of psychological emotional depth is exceptional, I look forward to reading more of this authors work.
Many thanks to for the $0.99 value.
I Run was a painful book to read, not because the story itself or the writing style was difficult, but because as Sally ran, I began to feel like I was running along with her, running, avoiding looking at issues of childhood abuse. Run faster. Run faster. Run, Little Sally, so you don't have to feel the pain.
As Sally runs from the horror that is her past, her childhood, her present life as a married woman, and the hopes of her children who are somewhat neglected as she runs, all are intermingled. Sometimes I had a bit of difficulty telling whether it was Big Sally telling the story or Little Sally, and I think that was the point. When you are the survivor of childhood abuse, the past, present and future all meld together into one big painful, incomprehensible mess.
By the time I was finished with this book I was exhausted. I felt as if I had just run a marathon, injured my legs, hurt my feet, been in a car accident and suffered a back injury, nearly destroyed my marriage, and all the guilt of motherhood when you are running from your past and know it is affecting your children, but dang! It's so painful to face that kind of stuff. Let's just run from it? Okay? Boy, this book hit close to home!
And I hope by now the reader has gotten the point ... when you're running from your past, your past keeps right up with you. Just like your shadow. And until you deal with it, it's just going to keep sneaking up behind you and shouting 'boo!'
But you CAN deal with it ... this book gives you hope.
This, my friends, is an exquisite book. It is the very essence of the word fine, beautiful, intense and carefully crafted down to the tiniest detail. It tells the tale of Sally Brockman who is trying to, initially, outrun the pain of her abusive childhood and later realizes she needs to run through her pain to reach the transformation, healing and redemption she seeks.
Sally, the main character in I, Run, had a childhood very similar to my own. I’ve read books where characters shared my background. But never before have I found a book where the author so perfectly captured the aftereffects that I have endured in the decades since my abuse.
I read this book perpetually repeating, “Yes”, “Yes”, “YES”. It was my experience captured in words. It was validation that I wasn’t alone. To say the story was relateable is an understatement. It threaded itself through my entire being, touching my mind, body, heart and soul. Farris gets it. Period.
If you are a survivor you will read this book and walk away feeling understood and validated. While not every survivor has the same experience, I believe we share many similarities amongst our outlooks on life and assessments of ourselves. She understands the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder we struggle with, the strength we have to muster each and every day just to cope, and the perfection we strive for in order to prove ourselves worthy.
She also addresses two issues which not every other book about survivors does spirituality and addiction. Sally’s faith was knocked out from under her as a child. But she desperately craved it. She needed to know there would be someplace good to go after this life was over, someplace wonderful that would make all that she endured in this life pale in comparison. There had to be something better, safer and more full of love than this life. Because if this life is all there is then there is no hope. Sally eventually finds her faith, but not after she questions and struggles like most survivors do with this critical element of healing.
Farris also does a wonderful job of addressing the aspect of addiction in recovery from childhood abuse. Based upon my experience, both as a survivor and as a therapist who works with survivors, self-medicating is VERY prevalent for adults and teens abused as children. Talking about abuse, admitting we were abused, is still a very taboo thing. Once one gets into therapy recovery is a very hard thing. But something needs to take the edge off the pain and PTSD symptoms in the immediate moment. So we self-medicate with drugs, alcohol, food or self-harm. My choice has always been food. Sally’s choice is marijuana. It makes our worlds bearable, at least in the moment. But it is even more shaming to talk about than the abuse. So to have Farris address it so openly is a gift to survivors everywhere.
I highly recommend this book to survivors, partners and friends of survivors, therapists and, because of the spiritual element, to ministers/priests/lay persons. It sheds so much light on the mine field that child abuse plants before the victim for decades to come. It isn’t all miraculously over when the abuse ends. There are miles and miles to travel and hundreds of mines to navigate before we have peace.
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