Rating: 
Summary: Great Book
Review: Another great Debbie Macomber book. Her characters are busy and they're great. Buy this book - you'll love it.
Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: Another great Debbie Macomber book. Her characters are busy and they're great. Buy this book - you'll love it.
Rating: 
Summary: The Power of Female Frienship
Review: Debbie Macomber fills the pages of her book, Thursdays at Eight, with a delightful story of the power of female friendship.After meeting in a journaling class, Julia, Liz, Clare & Karen decide to further their friendship by meeting for breakfast each Thursday at Eight. In these Thursday morning meetings many laughs and heartaches are shared forming a tight bond between the women. Each character, unique and insightful, brings something new to the table for the others to relish in. As the four face trials in their lives they turn to each other for support and love. This book delivers an enjoyable read of how people's lives are shaped by the people whom they decide to call friends.
Rating:
Summary: The Power of Female Frienship
Review: Debbie Macomber fills the pages of her book, Thursdays at Eight, with a delightful story of the power of female friendship. After meeting in a journaling class, Julia, Liz, Clare & Karen decide to further their friendship by meeting for breakfast each Thursday at Eight. In these Thursday morning meetings many laughs and heartaches are shared forming a tight bond between the women. Each character, unique and insightful, brings something new to the table for the others to relish in. As the four face trials in their lives they turn to each other for support and love. This book delivers an enjoyable read of how people's lives are shaped by the people whom they decide to call friends.
Rating:
Summary: Four stories...One book!
Review: Do not begin reading this book until you have a lull in your schedule...otherwise you'll become irresponsible & slack off in your other responsibilities until you finish! Thursdays at Eight was an excellent novel! The book basically consists of vignettes of four different women in different life seasons who grow by leaps and bounds throughout the story. It was very encouraging to see how these women absolutely leaned on each other to walk hand in hand through the various trials highlighted here. Most chapters included a journal entry from each woman's diary along with the author's third person account of events taking place over the course of about a year. I highly recommend this book! If you enjoyed this format, there is a similarly written series--takes 4 women through different seasons and trials together--by 2 Christian authors (Lahaye/Blackstock) called "Seasons Under Heaven" that you may also enjoy.
Rating: 
Summary: Enjoyable read!
Review: First, unlike most (all?) of Debbie Macomber's books, this book should not be classified as a romance. Instead, it's women's fiction. It focuses on women in various stages of life and realistically deals with their problems (it acknowledges that, hey, unlike some reviewers [apparently], not all women are so hardened that their life-changing problems are easily curable in 200 pages). Second, this is an enjoyable read. The characters develop nicely, and the reader gets to know the characters well. Macomber includes enough secondary characters to make the plot interesting, but not so many as to be too confusing (trust me, it is confusing enough straightening out the 4 main characters in the beginning of the book). Third, Macomber's themes are well-done. Each character picks a word at the beginning of the year to be her theme word, and I was thinking, "Great! Now we have to deal with these themes over and over again." But Macomber is much more subtle and uses these themes effectively and very un-battering-ram-like. I did have two small problems with this book. First, it seemed that the ending was a little abrupt. I'm not sure if this was because of how the book was set-up: the book plunked us in the middle of the women's lives and carried through for months while we got to know these characters. When the book ended, it seemed unnatural to stop reading while the characters' lives continued on. Second, the first diary entries in the first chapters are distractingly obvious attempts to set up each character and her history. Would a person really succinctly write their pertinent life story in an on-going journal for only her own personal reading? This is unnatural, and I found it rather weird. However, on the whole, this is simple and enjoyable women's fiction. I recommend it as one of Macomber's best efforts yet.
Rating: 
Summary: Speed reading improves as book progresses
Review: Four perfect plots with four imperfect women, but, you just know that their imperfections make them more perfect! The situations had potential, but, it became a puff piece. Through the first chapters my underlying thought was that these problems would be so much more with less financial support. Did each woman have to be so wealthy? Where was the average income? It has to be more fun to write about someone who can dine out whenever they want rather than the woman who has to balance going to a restaurant weekly, or more often, with buying enough groceries or gasoline. I guess if no bills exist you can concentrate on the lack of a man or ungrateful kids. This book was a quick read, I found myself skimming through because it is trite and forgettable, except for the chapter quotes. I copied them out in a journal. Yes, I journal and I hope there is more reality in my words. I've had two of the plotlines happen in my life.
Rating:
Summary: Four Women Learn The Meaning of Friendship
Review: Four very different women meet at a journaling class and form a strong bond. Though I was a little perplexed as to why such different women did decide to form a breakfast club, there is no doubt that they cared for one another and were there for each other in good times and in bad. Claire is a woman whose husband Michael has left her for a much younger manicurist. Bitterness and anger have taken over her life, but a life-altering event leads her and her two teenage sons to re-evaluate their situation. Liz is a smart and savvy hospital administrator. Can a mature and educated widow find lasting happiness with a womanizing doctor whose top priority is bedding her? Karen is the youngest member of the group and is constantly at odds with her family. She yearns to be an actress, preferably star in her own sitcom. Her family thinks she needs to be realistic and become a teacher. Julia is the happily married mother of two children who has just begun her own business. She seems to have it all when a surprise pregnancy disrupts the life she has planned for herself. This book looks at one year in the life of these friends as they cope with joys and sorrows, romantic possibilites and career challenges. Through it all, they faithfully meet each Thursday morning for breakfast and give unwavering support and encouragement to each other. Readers will no doubt long to join Claire, Liz, Karen, and Julia each week at Mocha Moments and take part in this warm and sincere support group.
Rating:
Summary: Leave Thursday mornings open for the girls
Review: Four women of different ages and backgrounds take a journaling class, and become fast friends who meet every Thursday morning for breakfast. During the upcoming year they will all be faced with hardships and life changing situations. Throughout the turmoil their friendships will grow and the strength that comes from these relationships will be the matrix for a stable outcome. Well written and comfortable this book is filled with real life situations that take us through the ups and downs of life, death, and birth. A full range of emotions and reactions seen from all perspectives, keep the reader interested from beginning to end. Macomber is a new author to me. I would certainly be interested in another of her books. Kelsana 8/28/02
Rating:
Summary: GREAT STORY
Review: Four women that meet in a Journaling Class decides to meet every Thursday morning for breakfast at eight. There couldn't be any different four women in the world than, CLAIRE, who has just been through a devastating divorce; ELIZABETH, a fifty-seven year old widow that has made her mark in her choosen profession; KAREN, in her twenties trying to break into acting; JULIE,turning forty and has unexpectedly beome pregnant. You will laugh, cry and plot out all life's problems with these four unique ladies and come away with the feeling that you have made four new friends.
A delightful book that only women can understand.
| 
