Saving CeeCee Honeycut, Chapters 23-30
In these last few chapters of the book, we see CeeCee break open in many ways. As she collapses from the pain she has carried for so long, she also begins her healing process. She witnesses adults being imperfect and fighting like children and then walking away as friends. She learns that even though she may look like her mother, she will never become her mother. She makes a friend who is her own age – a first for CeeCee. And for the very first time, CeeCee feels proud of herself. In breaking open the pain, she also breaks open her heart.
Were there any parts of this book that resonated with you strongly? Were you able to see yourself in CeeCee in any way? Tell us what you loved most about this book.
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I don’t see my life in CeeCees as I grew up in a very different family. My parents were normal. I also cannot relate to having women in my life as a child as I was the only girl with brothers and as a mother I had only sons and not daughters. But in my older years I have found some very good female friends and I cherish those friendships.
I have liked the books you have selected. I am looking forward to the next book!
I didn’t have to overcome the things that Cee Cee had to as a child. But I did, and still do, love to read. I loved the way Beth Hoffman wrote this book. You can really feel the ambience of the town and the countryside. The themes that resonated with me the most are the ones about finding your fire, your passion in life. Cee Cee wonders that if her mother had found her fire she might still be alive. Also, the theme of friendship, deep friendship with a friend who you can grow old with who knows all your secrets. What Cee Cee calls a “purple-velvet-sofa kind of girlfriend. I feel fortunate that I have that. Cee Cee meets all these colorful women in her new home and starts to wonder what the difference is between eccentric and crazy. I think that through her new, eccentric and creative friends she starts to think about her late mother a little differently, more positively. When Cee Cee asks Mrs. Goodpepper what the difference is between eccentric and crazy she answers, “Nobody knows!” The fear that we will end up just like our parents changes when we can see them in a positive light.
I loved this book and will recommend it to others. I look forward to the next book for the Summer selection.