Read Online The Honey Bus A Memoir of Loss Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees Meredith May 9780778307785 Books

Product details Hardcover 336 pages Publisher Park Row; Original edition (April 2, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 0778307786

The Honey Bus A Memoir of Loss Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees Meredith May 9780778307785 Books Reviews

• I learned so much about bees and how they live in the world and how valuable they are. This book reminded me of the book, Lab Girl, where I learned so much about trees. Don't underestimate the complexity of nature. Learning how bees took care of each other filled the hole left in Meredith's life. Good read!
• Enchanted from the start with the knowledge of honey bees.
  The author has taken a rough childhood and the life of honeybees and forged and amazing memoir. informative, painful and most of all, forgiveness !
• I waited for this book for many months from when I first preordered it to finally seeing it appear on my kindle. During that time I probably checked on it a few times per month; even though I knew the date it would be available. The book does not disappoint such eager wait. It is even more insightful and brilliant than I could have imagined. Courage, compassion and common sense describes the author and her grandfather perfectly. I thank Meredith May sharing her story and for allowing me to see the world through the eyes of bees.
• I am a fan of Meredith May's writing from her days at the San Francisoc Chronicle, so I was eager to read her memoir. Her journalism was at a very high level, and her book is an incredible read - also at a very high level. It brings the reader on a roller coaster of emotions, from anger and disbelief at her childhood challenges to her finding her solace and salvation in her grandfather and his bees. Loved every page, and celebrated Meredith's strength in rising above.
• There's much to love in this book. I especially loved the way May mixes metaphors and solid facts. She yearned for a "normal" family, and yet . . . how lucky she was to have had a grandfather who tactfully, delicately, taught her and guided her into adulthood. It's generous of May to have shared herself, her brother, and her grandfather with us. And the bees!!!!
• The story is told in the first person by the author and starts when she is about 5 years with her mom and dad separating and her mom , brother and herself moving to California to stay with Grandma and Grandpa house. The mother is so into herself that she basically gives up on the kids and it becomes Grandma and Grandpas responsibility. Meredith develops an interest of the comings and goings of Grandpa who happens to be a beekeeper. As the story progresses this becomes Meredith's escape and the chance for grandpa to teach her many life lessons. If you do not know much about bees you end up getting a lesson along with the author which I though was great. As I went through this story I would get so mad at Meredith's mother and how she could be so disconnected and at times the grand mother too. If you have been a child in a family that has been through a divorce I am sure you will be able to relate to things that take place such at least one parent playing the children against the other or at least try. This was a nice easy read it is one of those you want to sit down and spend a day to finished and I recommend that you do. I as a grown man even had a tear in my I but this book is something special.
• How nature and a loving mentor can teach and inspire children. What could have been a tragic outcome for two small children was changed by loving grandparents and lessons from nature.
• I was deeply touched by The Honey Bus. I, fortunately, did not share in the author’s difficult family life, but I was a sensitive child, taking a lot in and thinking about it, just as little Meredith does. I could relate very well to the way that she responded to the circumstances she found herself in. I am very much a nature lover, and a bee lover, and have shared some of the same thoughts about bees as May writes here. (My grandfather raised bees too, and my husband and I are getting ready for our own first hive.)
  
  I love the way May shares her quiet, introspective outlook. To me, it accurately portrayed the feelings and reactions of a sensitive child. I loved hearing about little Meredith turning to nature (bee) study, both as a refuge and as a joyful, anticipatory pleasure.
  
  I’ll leave you with a quote from the book “I wanted to understand everything that the bees were doing, to be able to read them the way he could. Because when I let myself get lost in a beehive, my mind could stop spinning. I was able to slow down and relax with the task of simply paying attention. Serenity came as I shifted my worried mind to the bees and their behaviors. I felt a comforting assurance that there was hidden life all around me, and that made my own problems seem smaller somehow.” I, too, felt such a thing, though, as a five year old, I could not have put it into words this well. I’m glad that May looked back at her childhood and has put such words to the feelings for us to share.
  
  This would be a wonderful book for the parents of sensitive children to read.
  
  But that’s JustMe.