Stories From A Lifetime by Hugh Aaron Blog Tour and Review

Stories From a Lifetime Virtual Book Tour June & July 2011

Join Hugh Aaron, author of the short story collection, Stories From a Lifetime (Stones Point Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in June & July 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Hugh Aaron

Hugh Aaron, a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, received a Liberal Arts degree in the Humanities at The University of Chicago. For three years as a Seabee he served in the South Pacific during WWII. He was CEO of his own plastics manufacturing business for 20 years before selling it to write full time. Several of his short stories have been published in national magazines and 18 of his essays on business management have appeared in The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Business Not as Usual: How to Win Managing a Company through Hard and Easy Times. Currently he’s writing and producing plays.
His latest book is a short story collection, Stories From a Lifetime.
You can visit his website at www.stonespointbooks.com or his blog at www.businesswisdom.blogspot.com.

About Stories From a Lifetime

Stories from a Lifetime carries readers through a widely diverse series of life’s peaks and valleys with poignant, clear-eyed vision and understanding that is only gradually gained across the course of a lifetime through endurance and honest appraisal of the emotional rollercoaster that we all ride.
These stories form a welcome, and increasingly rare, honest, grounded, and beautifully written collection that will touch nerves while sympathizing with what it means to be human.
Hugh Aaron delicately reveals the world through the innocent eyes of a young boy, through those of a soldier far from home during wartime, and those of a struggling businessman and faltering husband. He is unafraid to reveal panic beneath a façade of success, the deep and hollow sadness that may exist in an outwardly happy marriage, the yearning we feel to make a break for freedom from the rat race, the unexpected emotional responses that shift lives far beyond the expected course of events.

My Thoughts:
Stories from a Lifetime by Hugh Aaron is a collection of short stories. I am usually not a fan of short stories but I did enjoy this collection. I especially liked the stories that I am assuming where from his childhood. Written with honesty, wit and candor, this collection of stories will appeal to a wide audience. Some of the stories are lessons learned and some left me with the thought that the main character had a lot to learn. It seems that the author has had a lot of life experiences and it shows in his stories. I give it 4 stars...
I received this book from Pump Up Your Books for review and was not monetarily compensated for my review.