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Title: Divine Appointments

Subtitle: A Snowglobe Connections Novel

Author: Charlene Ann Baumbich

Narrator: Melissa Hurst

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times best-selling author of the Dearest Dorothy novels, Charlene Ann Baumbich has garnered popular and critical acclaim for her pitch-perfect characterization and endearing humor. Continuing the Snowglobe Connections series she began with Stray Affections, Baumbich delivers Divine Appointments, a poignant look at life, faith, and love thats sure to enthrall listeners everywhere.

©2010 Charlene Ann Baumbich (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC

Members Reviews:

Appointments are Divine

I recently reviewed Charlene Ann Baumbich's Finding Our Way Home, book three in the Snowglobes Series. Last night I finished her Divine Appointments. I am reading this series in backwards order, but all three books can be stand-alones. Not knowing the information in the first book did not detract from the other two.

Josie Victor Brooks is an efficiency consultant currently living in Chicago working to help streamline Diamond Mutual. She is known as the hatchet woman among other nicknames among the DM employees.

Her snowglobe is a scene of a creek with trees around it. While she doesn't understand why she was drawn to this particular snowglobe, it does have an impact on her life. Josie is not a woman drawn to knicknacks or dust-catchers. She moves nearly every year and desires a simple life. Her art has to speak to her or it's not worth her time. This snowglobe, at times, gurgles and "bubbles" like a brook, drawing her attention and perplexity time and again. Because of her nomadic life, Josie doesn't have many friends. But the realtor who sold her the condo where she lives has reached out in friendship. Amelia becomes Josie's sounding board, her confidant, the one she can pour out her heart to. Amelia is only one of Josie's divine appointments.

The divine appointments don't end with Amelia and Josie, there are others all through the book and they lead the readers to look for the divine appointments in their own lives. This is a truly enjoyable book with a deeper theme than just entertainment

Divine Appointments Was Not So Divine

I loved the first book in this series, but found this one was easy for me to lay down and come back to later--definitely not a page-turner in my opinion. I usually like some fantasy (especially divine intervention type fantasy); however, I thought the fantasy in this one was a little farfetched, not very believable and hard to grasp. All that being said, I will still look forward to the next installment and hope for the best. Charlene Ann Baumbich is still one of my favorite authors.

Charming Theme Carried Forward

Interesting second edition of a series, developing a character only peripherally referenced in the first one. Ms. Baumbich is carrying forward her theme of a mystical snow globe illustrating a buried inner dream and/or personal fulfillment. She depicts the inner journey of characters coming to terms with past relationships and their own inner life formation relative to those, developing to a true epiphany. I found this particular one interesting in that the central character comes to realize that some persons and dynamics of her past formative connections were actually somewhat different from what she had thought. That can happen, and it is no small thing to come to that recognition. Everyone has elements of this in their past life carrying forward to their current life experience.