The Good Luck of Right Now (Hardcover)

from thewanderingjew

At first, I did not know what to make of this book. A 39-year-old man, Bartholomew Neil, is overly attached to his mother, and he is grieving after her death. An errant priest, Father McNamee, off his meds and suffering from bi-polar disease, believed G-d once spoke to him but since has ceased. H...

from yvonne.sevignykaiser

Read this one for 52 weeks 52 books online group this is 2014 week 9.Filled with a full cast of flawed characters. You want the best for Bartholemew who takes care of his mom whose brain has been ravaged by cancer. He m u st pretend to be Richard Gere for her until she dies. In dealing with her d...

from novelcommentary

This was an interesting story told in letters that were written by a 38-year-old man who still lives at home with his mother and who pretends to be Richard Gere in order to calm her during her last days of dementia ridden cancer. In addition to pretending to be him for his mother, he also writes ...

from stephanieloves

At thirty-nine, Bartholomew Neil still isn't ready to leave his mother's nest, but when he loses her to cancer, he's left with no other choice. His once-stable, once-routine world-of just him, his mother, and God-crumbles to pieces when one of his biggest role models, Father McNamee, consequently...

from mlake

Bartholomew is a strange and lonely man and I sort of wish I knew him. When his mom dies he is adrift and starts writing letters to Richard Gere (his mom's favorite actor). The letters chronicle his meetings with a grief counselor, the angry man in his gut, his crush on the Girlbrarian and his fr...