A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin

The reason I wanted to read this book was because it was about two best friends that both share a passion for dancing. I danced for a long time and it was as much a part of me as it is for Julie and Sam.

This book just kind of pulled me in right from the beginning. Nothing spectacular happened or anything that I could relate too, I just enjoyed it. It’s written with such clarity and explanation. There aren’t really chapters but its set up like there is. Each is titled with Julie, and Sam. It switches back and forth from Julies view, to Sam’s.

Davida explains the important parts with such depth. I have yet to fully cry but I have definitely been getting teary eyed throughout this whole novel. I was only sixty pages in when I started to tear for the first time and I still have two hundred pages left to read. Julie gets cancer. It is multiple spots and it spreads and gets bigger. The bond between these to girls is so strong and so intense that its heart breaking when that bond starts to crack. At one point in the book I thought it was going to break for good but it is then mended by a special moment that the girls share together.

Julie gets sicker and sicker and her emotional control becomes weaker. She is more angry that usual and that is heart breaking as well because she knows exactly how she has changed and she doesn’t like it. She begins not to care and just wants to give up and let the cancer take over but something stops her. That strength and that will inside her that is telling her that she has to live and be strong for the people that care for her takes over and she comes back to reality and keeps fighting on this journey that she is travelling alone.

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