Grace, Fully Living
By Dave Ruch
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It's Christmas Eve and thirty-something Grace Tyler just can't find what she's looking for... on the store shelves this close to closing time, or in the men in her life. And while it seems like all those close to her have people in their lives to hang stockings with and successes to celebrate tonight, she's planning to spend her Noel alone. After all, isn't “alone” just an anagram for “A Noel”? At least it gives her plenty to time to look back over the year. And what a year it has been... misadventures on the ski slopes, the suave, talented yet creepy and threatening photographer, the art gallery parties and the male stripper the gallery's owner tried to fix her up with. Trips home to see her school BFF's new business venture , admire her Dad's growing internet savvy-ness and try to un-hear her mother's unwavering criticisms. All that and the driver who couldn't get over himself, the boss called “Horrors”, the apple of her mother's eye, namely her daytrading brother Roger and who can forget that unwanted surprise in her toilet one day? Certainly not Grace! And of course, there was Doug... enigmatic Doug, the mysterious northerner she never quite could get out of her mind...nor into her arms. How come her beloved Monica and Chandler didn't have to go through all this?
In the tradition of Bridget Jones Diary and The Holiday, it's the story of finding love and finding yourself in the modern world.
Life for the modern single lady isn't always graceful... but with our heroine, it is Grace...fully living!
NEW: Christmas Wrapping Edition includes some added recipes for some Christmas eating and celebrating!
Please note this book is approximately "PG" in terms of ratings applied to movies. While generally appropriate for youth as well as adults there is a small amount of profanity and occasional implied sexual references
Dave Ruch
Dave was born and raised in southern Ontario and recently has been dividing his time between there and Texas, where his fiancee is from. A graduate of University of Toronto, he's held a number of different jobs in the past couple of decades, from hotel night manager to photo-lab operator to member of a mobile store setup crew. These varied jobs have made him rich- in experience and stories! His writing has been seen in newspapers including the Toronto Sun and Oshawa This Week as well as regional magazines and his photo art has been featured at exhibits in both Ontario and Texas. In his spare time you'll usually find Dave spending time in nature, listening to 70s and 80s music or watching baseball, patiently waiting for his beloved Toronto Blue Jays to win another World Series.Or perhaps writing about those things - he authors a daily music blog ("A Sound Day") as well as a baseball one ("One Flew Over The Jays Nest"). His fondness for romcom movies and Generation X-themed novels helped inspire his current release, "Grace, Fully Living" available here. In the style of "Bridget Jones Diary" with a dash of "Sex and the City" , it follows happy but hapless Grace Tyler through a year as she enters the new millennium and a new life away from her small town roots. Dave's belief that an optimistic outlook is the key to a full and happy life inspired his book, "Thank Goodness! 101 Things to Be Grateful For Today", a collection of personal accounts of good things often unnoticed, from a firefly at night to how sports unites a community to the wonder of foods from all around the world available at our local store...and many more. It follows "The Mockingbird Speaks" published in 2014 dealing with two things of importance to him: appreciating wildlife and in particular birds, and looking at things in a positive light.
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