This is the second book I've read of local (Piedmont) author Kelly Corrigan's. I keep hoping I'll see her around town so I can tell her how much I enjoy her personal and very honest writing style. Her first book, "The Middle Place" was about her battle with cancer and her father's illness. In that book she wrote quite a bit about her daughters, too. In "Lift", which is written like an extended letter to her girls, Corrigan shares her feelings about motherhood and raising children and all the joy and fear that attend it. This is a very short, but powerful book and I found myself nodding and laughing and tearing up, too.

You go girl! Can't wait to see what you come up with next.

I'm not sure why this was published. It should be a pamphlet, not a book. It wasn't bad, but it was ridiculously short. It's a letter to her kids. I wonder if it was rushed into print to be a gift book for mothers' day, or some such thing. Because at 16.99 for not even 100 pages, ridiculous. (Not that I bought it, I got it from the library.)

I did like her book The Middle Place, and I will read any of her future stuff. But this one was lame.

whoa. I read this on the way home from a fabulous road trip with my slew of quickly growing up kids. It was breathtaking for its beauty, honesty, and glimpse into both the past and the future. I love Corrigan's style.

Love Kelly Corrigan's memoirs and her observations on love and family. She is an amazing writer.

I didn't know what this book was about when I started reading it. It was simply the first one on my list of books to read that was available electronically from the library when I needed a book to read. So my rating of 2 stars might be unfair. The book is a letter to the author's two daughters and although it is well written, I am puzzled as to why it was published. I keep journals for both my kids, but I can't imagine anyone other than myself, and maybe my kids, ever wanting to read them. I was also shocked at how short the book is. I felt like I finished it even before it started. So although the author seems like a great person and I'd probably enjoy being friends with her, I couldn't get into Lift.

So girls, will you please believe me when I tell you that I love you enough to take in the full reality of your lives? That I can understand the things you think I can't and I can see and know and embrace every bit of you, full frame, no cropping?

A letter from a mother to her daughters explaining a few things and telling them that she loves them. We probably all have enough stories of our childhood and our families to fill a book, things we want future generations to know, but no time to write them all down. Made me cry.

Another winner from Kelly Corrigan! Short but sweet.

Fast, lovely read about living and loving children.