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The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes

By Twotimesthefun @slcs48n1
One of the nicest things about blogging is I'm offered opportunities to review different books.  When I received an opportunity to review "The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes" by Gary Rubinstein, I jumped at it. 
If there is one thing our girls need to learn it is that making a mistake is not the end of the world.  They take every error as a personal failing.  It is as if a small mistake shakes them to their core.  My hope was they would read the book and take the lesson that mistakes are a part of life.  Everyone makes mistakes, and it's okay.
When the book arrived, the girls grabbed it and ran off.  Of course, part of the deal for receiving a review copy is that I'm supposed to blog about the book.  This is where the problem began.  You see, somehow, someway, the book disappeared.  I looked for it so many times that I was beginning to think I had imagined the book.  A very nice intern at the book publishing company sent a gentle reminder asking when the blog review would be posted.  Several weeks passed and I still couldn't find the book, so I broke down and asked the girls where the book was hiding.
The brunette twin said, "I don't know where it is, but I read it and it was really good.  There was a girl named Beatrice who never made a mistake.  She did everything right.  It was like she didn't know how to make a mistake.  Then she took her hamster out and her hamster really liked salt.  Beatrice didn't realize that she brought her hamster pepper instead.  It was her first mistake and it was in front of a lot of people.  She realized it was okay to make a mistake and laughed."
I was pretty impressed with her recall of the details.  I said, "So, what was the point of the book?"  The brunette twin said, "Don't get upset when you make mistakes.  Everyone makes them."
Now, since I cannot find the book, I'm not sure she got it all right, but she did get the main point.  Any book that makes that much of an impression after one reading must be worth reading.  If only I could find the book and read it for myself.

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