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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this book! It is a "cant put down" kind of book as you take the journey with these friends. It's a book about life, friendship, and the twists and turns these take along the way.
This book was good. I liked it.
It made me appreciate my group of Angry Housewives!
It made me appreciate my group of Angry Housewives!
I read this for a book club. It's not something I would normally read. But the club wanted something light. I admit I was not looking forward to it, but I ended up mostly enjoying it. This is not a deep book, and it can be annoying how perfectly things usually tend to work out for the characters. But if you want something light and sweetly diverting, like the literary equivalent of a bonbon, then this is it.
Read for my bookclub. It was okay, but the lack of a real ending sort of put me off. While it was supposed to be following the lives of the women, and obviously real lives have only one very definite ending (death), Landvik ended the novel with one character dying, but no real denouement.
I loved this book! Great character development, funny, heartwarming, all around good chick book!
I liked this book enough that I've revisited it several times over the years. A novel about women and women's friendships, and the peculiar way geography can unite even the most different of women.
I have never been so happy to discover a scheduling conflict.
This was a book club selection, and I realized today that I can't make it to this book club meeting. And while I did make it through the first 80 or so pages, I was dreading the discussion... I couldn't think of anything nice to say.
I won't give this a star rating (it seems unfair to rate something that I didn't finish) but I could tell right off the bat that this fell on the wrong side of my "show vs. tell" meter. The characters were caricatures, and the writing was cliche-ridden. Examples: The abusive husband who "smiled a mirthless smile" and a librarian "whose braided bun and eyeglass rims were the color of a steel filing cabinet" and a mixed-race baby whose skin was the color of... you can guess this one... yup. Coffee with cream.
Add to that a series of events that read less like life and more like scenes from something on Lifetime: Television for Women, and you've got yourself a recipe for something that I'm just not going to like.
This was a book club selection, and I realized today that I can't make it to this book club meeting. And while I did make it through the first 80 or so pages, I was dreading the discussion... I couldn't think of anything nice to say.
I won't give this a star rating (it seems unfair to rate something that I didn't finish) but I could tell right off the bat that this fell on the wrong side of my "show vs. tell" meter. The characters were caricatures, and the writing was cliche-ridden. Examples: The abusive husband who "smiled a mirthless smile" and a librarian "whose braided bun and eyeglass rims were the color of a steel filing cabinet" and a mixed-race baby whose skin was the color of... you can guess this one... yup. Coffee with cream.
Add to that a series of events that read less like life and more like scenes from something on Lifetime: Television for Women, and you've got yourself a recipe for something that I'm just not going to like.
If this one didn't give me all the feels, it at least gave me many. These women are all women. These friends are all friends; they certainly became mine. I'll miss them.
I was entertained by the vastly different characters in the book. They all had a same passion though - reading. It made me want to go on a long weekend with my girlfriends because the entire book is testament to the bonds of friendship through the good, the bad and the ugly.