Spiritual Content- A handful of Scriptures are mentioned & quoted; Prayers & Thanking God; Church going; Witnessing; Talks about God, Jesus, praying, churches, & seasons of life; 'H's are not capital when referring to God; Katie’s great aunt has a few Scriptures misunderstood/messed up (including saying that God loves the organ); Katie’s mom & great aunt both fuss about the use of contemporary instruments at a church service; Katie talks about having a church that preaches the gospel & where you feel comfortable and can grow; Many mentions of God & seasons of life; Many mentions of prayers, praying, Thanking and Praising God, blessings over food, & a prayer group; Many mentions of churches, church going, pastors/reverends, sermons, services, hymns, worship, youth groups, a Bible study, & denominations (Baptists, Charismatics, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians & switching denominations and teasing rivalries); Mentions of Christians & witnessing to others; Mentions of blessings & being Blessed; A few mentions of those & events in the Bible; A few mentions of ministries & missionaries; A few mentions of church women saying they’re not gossiping because it’s common knowledge and to pray for the people being discussed; A few mentions of televangelists (when referring to a man’s hairstyle); A couple mentions of miracles; A couple mentions of the Apostle’s Creed; A couple mentions of a man being called a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”; A mention of a Christmas Eve service; A mention of Palm Sunday; A mention of a godsend; A mention of a “Come to Jesus” talk; A mention of another making others look like “spiritual slouches”;
*Note: A couple mentions of thanking lucky stars; A mention of Santa Claus.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘doggone it’, a ‘duh’, a form of ‘shut up’, a ‘sucker’, a ‘what the heck’, two forms of ‘dumb, three ‘good gravy’s, and seven ‘stupid’s; A couple mentions of curses (in movies); Sarcasm & Eye rolling; Pain (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of a car accident, major injuries, & a coma (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of injuries, pain, surgeries, depression because of it all, & the deaths of others’ dreams (sports related); Mentions of jealousy (including making others jealousy on purpose because of a wedding dress); Mentions of spiked punch at a wedding, alcohol, & drinking; Mentions of gossip & rumors; Mentions of bathroom functions; A few mentions of hatred (including for rival sport teams); A few mentions of throwing up; A couple mentions of a DWI & arrest; A couple mentions of an almost divorce; A mention of being held at gunpoint; A mention of being hung over from pain medication; A mention of shooting (figurative) foxes; A mention of a man being called an “old fart”;
*Note: Every chapter’s title is a song & starts with a quote from or about Doris Day (other quotes by Janis Paige, Stella McCartney, Leo Fuchs, Margaret Whiting, John Wayne, Nellie McKay, Kaye Ballard, David Thomson, Martha Hyer, John Updike, & Philip Brown); Many mentions of actors/actresses, movies, singers, & songs (Doris Day, Loretta Lynn, Audrey Hepburn, Angelina Jolie, Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, Ronald Reagan, James Dean, John Wayne, Pillow Talk, An Affair to Remember, Gone with the Wind, Cinderella, & Les Brown); Mentions of stores, restaurants, & other places (Macy’s, Brookshire Brothers, Dairy Queen, KFC, & Starbucks); Mentions of brand names & items (Dolce & Gabbana, Lanciottis boots, Rolex, Perrier, Formica, Yahtzee, Scrabble, Crock-Pot, iPad); Mentions of sports team & rivalries (Mavericks, Spurs, Texans, & Cowboys); Mentions of social media sites (Facebook and Skype); A couple mentions of car brands; A couple mentions of fictional characters (Scarlett O’Hara); A couple mentions of the Food Network (relating to another series by this author); A couple mentions of a proctologist; A mention of OCD; In the acknowledgments at the end, the author mentions the death (miscarriage) of a granddaughter due to Turner’s syndrome & mourning her.
Sexual Content- A hand kiss, five hair/head kisses, seven cheek kisses, an ear kiss, a nose kiss, eight not-detailed kisses, and nine barely-above-not-detailed kisses; Touches, Embraces, Hand holding, Dancing, Nearness, & Smelling (barely-above-not-detailed); Flirting, Blushes, Whistles, & Winks; Katie calls Brady’s grin “delicious” (once); Katie teases Brady by whistling at his legs when in a hospital gown that’s short on him; A form of ‘sexy’; The phrase “hooked up” is said twice, but not with the loose sexual fling meaning; Many mentions of kisses, kissing, married couples kissing, & seeing other couples kiss (barely-above-not-detailed); Many mentions of boyfriends/girlfriends, dating, dates, breakups, exes, & broken hearts; Mentions of a honeymoon/wedding night (Katie’s grandmother is concerned about her new husband seeing her body); Mentions of chaperones & a woman being concerned about traveling with a man or being alone with him at his place; Mentions of flirting, swooning, blushes, & winks; A few mentions of PDA; A few mentions of cuddling; A couple mentions of a movie having certain scene (implied sexual, also called “hanky-panky”); A couple mentions of crushes; A mention of a married couple getting out of the shower (slip of the tongue); A mention of newlyweds being preoccupied; A mention of a televangelist being forced off the air after accosting a woman; A mention of affairs (in soap operas); A mention of (not) cheating; A mention of a man secretly having the hots for a woman for years; A mention of jealousy; Love, being in love, & the emotions;
*Note: Mentions of negligees and lingerie (Katie’s grandmother’s (church) friends host her a lingerie shower and Katie tries not to hear about it; Mentions of their red faces and the thin fabric; A few mentions of a woman who bought a negligee online being plagued with spam afterwards of terrible pictures and people in crazy positions); Mentions of virginal brides (discussing a wedding dress’ colors) & Katie’s grandmother saying that back in her day, the women that wore cream or ivory dresses were “well…compromised”; Mentions of a woman being more manly/alethic, but is now more feminine (Katie realizes she judged her unfairly in the past because of her appearance and mannerisms); A few mentions of a sheath dress being called a “wiggle dress” because it showed every wiggle on a woman’s figure; A couple mentions of a mishaps for a bride walking down the isle (her backside showing or going down naked because of a lack of a dress); A couple mentions of an ultrasound picture showing a baby’s “girl parts”; A couple mentions of a husband slapping his wife on her rear end (Katie’s father, done in passion/teasing, twice); A couple mentions of Katie’s father wearing just his undershirt and boxers in front of company; A mention of a sister slapping her sister on her backside (to get her to get it together); A mention of football players running around in tight pants and “patting one another on the fannies”; A mention of a bride having a breast reduction surgery; A mention of a woman’s saggy boobs; A mention of a woman’s figure; A mention of an actress always wearing turtlenecks because it was a symbol of her purity; A mention of estrogen; A mention of pregnancy hormones; A mention of a woman having her “own personal summer” (hot flash); A mention of a man needing a swift kick in the backside; A mention of a man saying that another man will make someone a “wonderful wife” because he can cook and sew (his wife fusses at him for saying this).
-Katie Fisher
1st person P.O.V. of Katie
316 pages
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