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Summary: I absolutely loved it!
Review: I finished this book in two days. I not only loved the characters and their realistic nature, but it is not at all the breezy read that i had expected. This book made me think and consider re-evaluating my life as Lin re-evaluated hers. This book hit close to home, and i've never met anyone who didn't love it.
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Summary: I absolutely loved it!
Review: I finished this book in two days. I not only loved the characters and their realistic nature, but it is not at all the breezy read that i had expected. This book made me think and consider re-evaluating my life as Lin re-evaluated hers. This book hit close to home, and i've never met anyone who didn't love it.
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Summary: Put me on the side of the women who still like men
Review: I just finished this book last night, and I was so irritated by the weird, incomplete and vapid ending that I couldn't wait to read the reviews on here today!I try so hard to screen out all the man-hating, ball-busting women's books and I thought this would be a good one. Sure with humor (I certainly HOPE with humor) but with some insight and just a plain good read. And the strange thing is that it was a pretty good read until about the last 3 chapters and then it just *Bam* like Emeril says, went south (pardon the pun) in a hurry. I was checking out what I thought was some pretty good man insight with my sometimes too honest husband, and sure enough, she hit some nails straight in. But then, it's like she got sick, and someone else who *really* hates the male gender finished it for her while she recovered! I could only think of those lit classes in college where you did a group book, with different ones of us taking a chapter to continue with the last one you read. Hey, I'm flawed, you're flawed, everyone one is flawed, sisters. Not just men. Of course they are flawed too. After thinking about it, I decided that Ms Smith is still very wounded and can't get on with real life. Don't waste your money, unless you really dig the books that diss the men and keep those ladies on their pedestal.
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Summary: Boring...very boring...
Review: I love southern fiction and I was so excited about this one BUT while funny in the first few pages, don't be fooled. This story is lacking in PLOT and it never really grabbed me. I had to force myself to finish it! The main character, Lin, is not very likeable and is bitter towards all men because her husband left her. She gets in a weird relationship with her boss, Grant, and things just never pan out for her but it does take a postitive turn towards the end of the book. Overall, a boring story but I finished it ~ yeah! I see there are some glowing reviews here for this book - go figure.
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Summary: VERY FUNNY
Review: I loved it. It is the next best thing to Welcome to the World Baby Girl.
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Summary: Bad, boring Southern fiction
Review: I loved the title and the cover, but that was it. The book was full of stereotypes, cliches, and totally predictable (although unbelievable) characters and story lines.
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I opened this book and couldn't put it down. It was so refreshing to read about a character who could laugh at herself as she started over and tried to date again after thirty years as a sheltered housewife. I laughed out loud right along with her. And I cried as she faced her father and her uncle's Alzheimers. I especially liked the wonderful small-town chartacters and the way Lin pulled the rug out from under the corrupt mayor to bring about truth, justice, and the American way. Wish we could clean house on the national level that easily. I can't wait to read Haywood Smith's next one.
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Summary: If you hate men...
Review: I would recommend this book if you hate men and want to jump on the feminist band wagon. The novel started out great and was very humerous and entertaining. About midway through though, I realized that every male in the book was drastically flawed and I thought, unrealistic. Maybe I was reading this from the wrong angle, but honestly, there are a few good men out there.
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Summary: Started and finished this one.
Review: I'm a writer but I'm a reader first. Lately I'm reading smaller amounts of a lot of books. In fact a great many of them end up with a thud against the bathroom wall. I don't know about literary, but I laughed my way through this one without a bit of trouble and comedy isn't my first choice. This is survival, the Southern way. Keep it up Haywood.
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Summary: A little TOO quaint for my tastes, ya'll...
Review: I'm typically a fan of Southern fiction, but this was just too down-homey to be believed. Lin Breedlove returns to her small town roots and her life, once a shambles, is magically transformed by her fellow Mimosa Branchians, all of whom are just the gosh-darnedest sweetest li'l folks on the face of the earth. I swan, you just cain't believe how wonderful everything turns out for this menopausal matron. I skipped many a passage in this book to come to the rather bland end. Shallow and irritating characters with just the right sprinklin' of political correctness to make sure no one is offended. Overall, a rather silly, vacuous read that probably isn't worth your time.
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