From a Distance (Timber Ridge Reflections, Book 1)

by Tamera Alexander

Paperback, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Series

Timber Ridge Reflections (1)

Genres

Publication

Bethany House Publishers (2008), Edition: Reprinted, 381 pages

Description

Fiction. Christian Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML: First in a romantic historical series from a best-selling author, set in the Colorado Territory during the 1870's..

User reviews

LibraryThing member judyg54

Tamera Alexander does such a good job of making you understand and appreciate the time and place in history you are reading about; the beauty of the "west" and the difficulties of living in the 1870s (and especially being a photographer). A well written and enjoyable story.
This is a story of

Elizabeth Westbrook who travels to Colorado to capture in pictures the mountains near Timber Ridge. The fact that she is trying to win her place as a photographer for the Washington Daily Chronicle and that she is the daughter a well known politician, isn't something she wants the folks of Timber Ridge to know. Daniel Ranslett is a man who wants to be left alone as he lives in the Colorado mountains and tries to come to terms with his past and the part he played as a Confederate sharpshooter in the war. When Daniel shoots down the animal that Elizabeth is taking a picture of, things don't exactly get off to a good start. And when Elizabeth and her assistant Josiah have to leave town quickly, it's Daniel that must lead them on an adventure to photograph the Mesa Verde. The more these two are around each other the more each of them learns to appreciate the others strengths and weaknesses.
I think the author summed up this story when she writes "God loved her (Elizabeth) enough to intervene in her dream - to shatter it, to shatter her - only so He could put her back together and give her an even bigger, better dram. His dream for her life."
I am looking forward to book 2 and 3 in this series!

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LibraryThing member EdnaT

This is the first book in the series "Timber Ridge Reflections" by Tamera Alexander. Rocky Mountain Colorado Territory, April 15, 1875, Elizabeth Garrett Westbrook had left her home in Washington, DC to presume her career as a Newspaper reporter and photography. Her father is a US Senator and her

mom had died at the age of thirty-three of a lung illness. She also had another reason she was in Timber Ridge and used the camera and her love of it as am excuse. She met a mountain man to say, and she also had a black man as her helper. He was a slave that had been set free after the war between the states, and the town did not trust him. But Elizabeth trusted him with her life, and this part was used often. She also had a lung problem and sometimes she just could not breath, so she had to have someone that knew about this to be with her when she went up in the mountains to take pictures.

Elizabeth had told her father she was coming west to teach school, so she was always receiving boxes of books from him and she had no where to put them. Will she find a place to use them? There was no school in the town and now he had written to her that he was sending furniture for the school, oh my now where will she put all of that?

She wanted to know who owned the large tracts of land and the flattest so why would she need to know that? Will things work out for her or will the town find out why she really is in town and who her father is. This book is really a great one as a historical book and before women really were accepted to do a lot of jobs that men did.

This book was sent to me free to post a review in my own words from Baker Group. I rate this book as a 5

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LibraryThing member BugsyBoog

I thought this book was a good story with an unusual setting. It had a good message about the first women who pioneered certain fields, like journalism and photography. The main character, Elizabeth, suffered from asthma, and also had an addiction to morphine for this affliction. I don’t think

the author did a good enough job making this believable, but the main character did kick the addiction.

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LibraryThing member littlesparrow

Interesting enough, it had a hard start in my reading, since Tamera kept putting too much effort in explaining how photography was done and just how wild and strange was Elizabeth, and it didn't feel real. It got better around halfway of the book, but many times I was ready to give up at the

beginning.

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