I Did the "Impossible!" Just in time for the Holidays and "The Noel Diary!"

I can't believe it took me nearly 8 months to read Danielle Steel's "Impossible!"  Actually, the book was accurately titled.  It was boring and predictable.  It's been proven that men are less mature than women.  I don't know what made a 40-something year old woman (Sasha) think that her relationship with a man almost a decade younger (Liam) would work out!  Liam declared himself a "wacky artist" and was constantly accusing Sasha of picking on him.  It doesn't help that 3 people were killed off in the first 2 chapters: both of Sasha's parents, along with her husband!  Nothing more needs to be said about this book, and I am eager to begin reading "The Noel Diary," the newest book written by my favorite author, Richard Paul Evans.  In this much-anticipated new Christmas story from beloved storyteller Richard Paul Evans, a man receives the best present he could ask for: a chance to rewrite the past.  Bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher hasn't been home for almost 20 years--not since his mentally ill mother kicked him out of the house when he was just sixteen.  When a lawyer calls a few weeks before Christmas to inform him that his estranged mother has passed away and left her house to him, Jacob returns not just to settle the estate but to try to reconcile with the past and the pain and abuse he experienced as a child.  Also, maybe cleaning out her house will be slightly less depressing than spending the holidays alone, watching reruns of Christmas classics.  But as it turns out, the house holds more than just difficult memories.  Jacob's mother had become a hoarder, and he must excavate through two decades' worth of clutter.  As Jacob digs through the detritus like an archaeologist, he uncovers many puzzling items, including a diary left by someone named Noel, a young woman of whom he has no recollection who stayed with Jacob's family during her pregnancy.  And that's not the only echo from the past.  Jacob has an unexpected visitor: Rachel, a woman looking for the mother who put her up for adoption thirty years before.  United by their quest to make sense of the past and  rewrite their futures, Jacob and Rachel begin a search for Noel.  Along the way they find more than they could possibly have imagined, including grace, forgiveness, and a chance at love.   I suspect that I'm going to need a box of tissues the entire time I'm reading this book.  After all, there is a reason that Richard Paul Evans is known as the "King of Kleenex!"  Reading "The Noel Diary" is an early Christmas gift to myself, and I can't wait to take the "Journey!"