She’s coy, she’s whimsical, she’s older than dirt… and most of all, Mother Rebecca is live from the 19th century!Mother Rebecca is a fictional Victorian know-it-all who’s here to make the internet civilized again by providing gracious solutions to life‘s perplexing problems. (And it’s about time SOMEONE did, darlings. Mother Rebecca is just about ready to send most of the planet to its room).In … most of the planet to its room).
In the future, Mother Rebecca will be writing a series of humorous how-to guides to dealing with life’s challenges… (so watch this space and stay tuned!).
But before you can sit at Mother Rebecca’s feet soaking up wisdom, you might have a few questions, such as just who exactly is Mother Rebecca anyway, and just how exactly did she get so smart?
In this introductory volume, you’ll meet Mother Rebecca, learn how her fictional character came to be, and discover how she can help you learn and get smarter in dealing with life, love and loss.
You’ll learn about Mother Rebecca, herself, including her
- Mythical origins
- Imaginary husbands
- Legendary children
- Mind-boggling superpowers
- Curious quirks
- Intrepid travels and
- Victorian greenhouse of wisdom
If you want to know more, do more, fix what’s broken, or solve a problem, then Mother Rebecca is your good old (very old) gal.
Are you looking for deeper wisdom behind the surface of everyday life? Do you wish you could go back to a simpler time (even if it’s an imaginary one), where life was gracious and someone had all the answers?
In real life, darlings, no actual person has all the answers. But Mother Rebecca does.
Her greenhouse of wisdom is filled to the brim with gifts for you, because that’s where she grows the seeds she has gathered from her life experiences of the past 200 years.
The seeds in Mother Rebecca’s greenhouse of wisdom are no ordinary seeds. You won’t find them in any garden catalog. These are metaphorical seeds that will blossom into blog posts and eBooks that contain the essence of what you need to know in order to solve a problem, be more, do more, find an answer, and live your own (non-fictional) life at its highest and best.
Year and years in the making, and crafted from the finest hyperbole, metaphors, and literary ingredients, Mother Rebecca brings perspective, humor, insight, wisdom and charm to the vagaries of daily existence. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll ponder the meaning of it all. You’ll be glad that you, for one, are not 200 years old (how does Mother Rebecca know this? She’s positively psychic, I tell you!).
What’s stopping you from spending an hour or two laughing your head off as you escape to a time that never was? What’s stopping you indeed?
Nothing, darlings. You have the power. The power to enjoy yourself while gaining a whole new perspective on life, love, and loss, is in your hands right now.
All you have to do is scroll to the top and click the “buy now” button. You’ll be glad you did!
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Some Books will encourage a click on the “Buy Now” button just because of its cover. Hello World: Meet Mother Rebecca by Rebecca Frost Cuevas is one of those. If the Victorian headdress and great smile don’t get you, the subtitle The autobiography of a fictional Victorian know-it-all might be enough to clinch the sale.
There is a lot of humor in this novel. Cuevas, acting as both Actual Rebecca and “I” is the narrator who occasionally makes direct humorous asides to the reader. As for the humor; it is good, understated, and threatens to conceal the fact that there are very good, solid, philosophical points made. Many would argue that the world would be a better place if these faith-based humanitarian ideals were more operational.
Mother Rebecca is wise and knows many things, perhaps everything. It is logical that she would know everything. As was stated many times, Mother Rebecca is older than dirt. Age and wisdom correlate directly, right? From various sections of the novel, we know that Actual Rebecca, “I,” the author, created Mother from a variety of sources during her “actual” growing up. She could not channel Mother Rebecca, a wise woman offering advice on things such as marriage until she had more of an understanding of marriage. By the time Actual Rebecca was fifty plus years old, she was able to give such advice plus tech support. Taking lessons provided by Aunt Sophronia and a nanny, Mrs. Happy, Actual Rebecca was able to merge wisdom, assembly instructions, and computer user instructions.
In order to be an expert in all things, Mother Rebecca needed life experiences. Terrible at math, she was not sure how many husbands she had throughout her life, but she could remember the notable ones. She had a son, later known as Mr. Knit-It-All, with her first husband, Mr. Fix-It-All-Up. She had one philosophy of marriage: “The secret to a happy marriage is separate houses.” (p.35). Her husband had a complementary but differently phrased philosophy: “The reason to get married is to have a witness to your life.” (p.35). Mother Rebecca’s third, forty-seventh, or fifty-second husband (she really hates math) was Head Honcho.
Mother Rebecca loved greenhouses. Inside these normally physically visible constructions, Mother Rebecca planted seeds of abstract feelings and experiences, such as the seed of loss. She collected these seeds from the experiences of Actual Rebecca (AR) as AR went on her life’s journey up to the age of fifty when AR decided to make life changes. Up to that time AR had experienced almost nothing but loss. She had lost her mother, two children during childbirth, and a husband who she was still friends with. Her son, Youthful One, had left home and moved to the Big City. AR decided to go on adventures. At that point, AR and Mother Rebecca (MR) became one. It was AR as Mother Rebecca who married Head Honcho.
Whichever husband he was, there was to be a divorce. Rebecca had married into a tribe that would not accept her and the pair reluctantly agreed to a divorce so Head Honcho could fulfill his predestined tribal duties. And this is where the novel takes a new direction. From how Mother Rebecca came into being we enter the world of “What can Mother Rebecca do for you today?”
The answer is that she can give advice on surviving life. As Cuevas tells us, Rebecca’s life is all about helping others. “If Mother Rebecca were working full time at a job, or raising more children, or tending to grandchildren, she would not have time to write blogs and ebooks and lesson plans for you. She would not have a way to listen to you and hear your issues and concerns. Her heart would be full of others, and the details of everyday life.” (p. 74).
At this point, the novel has some similarities to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The novel has 111 pages total and the entertaining build up to what I consider the philosophical point has taken seventy-four pages. It can be inspiring. Mother Rebecca will even solve the mystery of the two-sided triangle. (p. 78).
This novel is available on Amazon for USD 0.99. I gave it five stars for its unique writing style and understated, subtle humor.