Someone Will Be With You Shortly, Lisa Kogan: Book In Review

In this strange world, where there are no coincidences anymore, thanks to the revelations in, The Celestine Prophesy, I still wonder at how my lamenting that I had no book to read and no time or money to find or purchase a book led, me to finding the right book at the right time and for free?  The strange chain of events, would never have happened before the Internet and Twitter, and not at the speed of light, or now it seems, the speed of life!

Seemingly, a random thought that I need a good book manifested a great book to read.  I replied to a tweet and got a book for free form someone I'd never met, except with whom I had shared a bit of life with on Twitter?  Someone Will Be With You Shortly, Notes from a perfectly imperfect life, was the right book at the right time for me to be reading, or to be trying to read on the go.  I now know an author/mother/woman who is trying to navigate a world, where everything is all lived on the go whilst juggling, Lisa Kogan.  I have found Lisa's book to be a friend, advisor and at times co-conspirator for the last week.

For me this book told the truth, my truth, perhaps your truth too.  The truth about what it is like to be a woman on this planet.  A truth found in unity and not in breaking off into groups as women.  If  "the truth will set you free", than this book contains some truths we all could all learn from.  At times when I was reading "I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd. I felt (she'd) found my letters and read each one aloud", like in the Roberta Flack song.  Lisa, and I are friends in having survived a bad haircut, single parenthood, men, childhood party awkwardness.  She too had felt very out of place at family celebrations currently, is tired of advise and the judgement from other Moms for the decisions we all agonise over.  She even has an older woman "friend" in a shop, who helps her to look her best while giving her mothering advise.  I had one such friend, we were strangers, but I ended up making her wedding cake and she helps me now even from the other side of the world, via the miracles of Facebook.

I took this book to work, I read this book at the park while playing in the sand with my son, I took this book to bed, I read it on a train, I did not read it on a plane!  On the train, oh that was a good place to read your book Lisa.  Let me over-share with you, since you've over-shared so much helpful information in your book.  Feel free to laugh along with me, laughter is like music and the sexual embrace, a wise Greek said that but I can't remember who and I don't have time to look it up for you, dear reader, oh and I'm paraphrasing too.

So, I'm a single mother, who loves all things environmental as well as all things free.  I won tickets on Twitter, for tweeting some Green Sex Tips.  I woke early to get my son, Blair off to school and to get into Toronto to get to Good For Her, a lovely shop that sells, as my friend Erwin's Mom calls them "face massagers for ladies" wink, wink.  Anyway, I got the free tickets from the sexual-aid shop and then went to the Green Living Show.  When I hopped on the train home, I looked all around for a seat that someones bag or feet weren't up on.  Found a seat up on the second level of the GO train, the last seat left.  I smiled at the attractive chap who did not have his feet on the seat across from him.  Great, so I could place both myself and my massive mom purse down.  I smiled and for a change somebody returned a smile.  Big cities make us all a bit disconnected for safety reasons or whatever.  This makes it hard to make a friend or admittedly for me to flirt.

Here is the magic part, in which Lisa's book connected me with her and my friend on the train with me.  We both pulled out our books, I pulled out mine and he pulled out his, a book I've been meaning to read by Eckhart Tolle.  I read, he read and then just as I was thinking it's time for a quick train nap before work, he did the most lovely thing he took a nap with me.  We were just like a couple who had been with each other long enough to just read together and then take an afternoon nap together.  We woke up, refreshed after out siesta and had an even nicer exchange about the books we were reading.  We "sorted out the world" together what needed changing:  people could be more friendly, compassionate towards the homeless, grateful and they could also be more dream following.  And then, he told me he was moving to Europe to follow his dream of boat building, story of my life!  As I tell my son, when he is having a tantrum "you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need" Rolling Stones song,  to which I know the lyrics but not the song's name.  I will remember that train ride, that boy and that book of yours I was reading, Lisa.  I will remember them as interwoven and I will remember them fondly.

In conclusion, if you are looking to sort out the modern world, looking for some career changing advise via Lisa's father, confused by fashion, men, being a woman and a mom at the same time- you will at the very least find some comfort in this book.  You will like this book if you love your gay mates, your friends, your mom, spaghetti, and your children especially, when they take the bribe offered and go back to bed.  If you bear no resemblance to the ladies on Sex In The City, but you are still fabulous at some point in the day because of and not in spite of, having had children and a full life- then rush out and get this book.  Or, put it on your to do list and one day when you remember to buy something just for you, you'll have a friend in this book.

Thank-you Lisa for the book, Love,

Victoria XO

Links:  I'll be at this Twitter Party, it caused me to have a nightmare last night about what to wear, do they even have Twitter party dresses in the same way as they used to have Birthday party dresses?!  I'm @FunnyGreenMommy hope to meet you there :)


Book  http://bit.ly/b7cvfT

Twitter Party:  http://bit.ly/bisXLX

Twitter Party Details:

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

9:00pm - 11:00pm (est)

Twitter party is open format meet the author

Guest can ask Lisa about her life, her column with O magazine, or her new book

Host of Party are best-selling author & friend of Lisa Kogan - Julie Morgenstern:  http://www.twitter.com/JulieMorgenstrn

Host of Party Melissa Lierman, Twitter Goddess, Twitter Queen, Twitter Specialist (whatever u want to call me): http://www.twitter.com/TimeOutMom

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