by Dorothy Wills-Raftery from the February 19, 2024 issue
Tagline: When Sophie decided to spend Valentine's Day solo trying something new, she never imagined Cupid would swoop in with a shot at true love.
I'm so far behind on blogging, it's not funny. Practically a month! Shameful. Anyway, I'm here and, as I often do when I'm lagging, I will be recording my thoughts as I read the story instead of doing a deeper analysis.
Off the Cuff Observations: Here in Southern California where I live, we don't get snow, so the idea of Valentine's Day being snowy is so crazy to me!
What is a snow tube?
...her breath curling up in the cold air. -- I like that phrasing!
He smells like limes? I love limes.
The son, Jackson, is funny with his rapid-fire questions. Leave it to the kid to do what the parent is too shy to do.
Oh, there's a conveyor belt? This is something completely foreign to me, but I'm imagining something like a ski lift, but maybe just a rope you grab onto.
I think snow tubes are like inner tubes. Okay, I just Googled snow tubes and now I really want to ride one!
"I hope I have something to do with that," Jake whispered before turning in their tubes. -- Seems odd to me that this almost complete stranger is whispering for no apparent reason except intimacy.
Love their jobs--firefighter and pet photographer.
...causing butterflies to burst in her stomach. -- I know what the author meant, but my brain went literal on this one. Maybe a different verb like careened or bat around or even the cliche flutter?
He takes her hand, too? Yeah, sometimes in Woman's World stories, I think things move too fast.
Oh, I do love the epilogue paragrah at the end though!
Photo by MIKI Yoshihito via Flickr CC license