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Summary: What a great book!
Review: This is a heartwarming story that will make you laugh, make you cry and make you cheer! When the personalities in a book stay with you, when you wish that you could actually meet them, actually get to know them, wish you could live along with them, you know your time with the book has been well spent. This is a fun read - a moving read - simply excellent!
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Summary: A wonderful clean love story
Review: This is a must read book that you will not be able to put down. Lavyrle Spencer is the best. This story made me feel like I was actually there witnessing it all.
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Summary: Good Quick Read
Review: This is a romance novel, but it is at the top of the pile of a list of books written by an author who is the best in the business. Morning Glory is no great literary achievment-but its characters are deep, and no cookie cutter representations of other romance novel characters. The characters had real flaws (that real people have) low paying jobs, and real problems-like war. They fall in love over a number of years, not days. All these things make this book better than most romance novels. It is the first one I ever read, and even now, hundreds of romance novels later, still my favorite.
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Summary: A must read for romance fans
Review: This is a superb romance. Spencer has captured the feel of Georgia and describes her characters with such realism that readers feel part of the story. I've read this book probably five times, because too few romance authors are able to make their characters come alive as Spencer has done here. One strength of the book is that Spencer does not focus only on Elly's feelings but describes Will's growing awareness of Elly. It's a favorite of mine. It will become a favorite of yours. Enjoy
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Summary: Human
Review: This is my first LaVyrle Spencer's novel and i love it. Will and Elly are so human, unlike the usual novel characters where the man and woman are model-like. This is a very good romance novel because you see how the love develops between the main characters and not "lust-at-first-sight." I cried when I read the letters they wrote to each other especially the one where Elly wrote something like she feels "hoel" with Will. The letter comes from the heart and it is very touching.
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Summary: a very touching story
Review: This is the first Spencer book I read, about ten years ago. I still read it about once a year and enjoy it every time. Each of the characters blends into the story well. I don't usually cry or laugh when I read novels but this was an exception. I could feel the heartache each time Will and Elly said good-bye during the war, and the emotional pain that Will brought home with him. I laughed out loud while I read the court scene near the end, especially at the two old guys, Nat and Norris. All through the book I wondered what role those two would play, and I was not disappointed. The only complaint I have is the same one I have with many Lavyrle Spencer books - I always think she ends the story too soon, and I'm always left to wonder what happened to the characters. I guess I just have to imagine that Will and Elly lived happily ever after. I wish she would come out of retirement to write sequels to Morning Glory, Bittersweet, and Separate Beds. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good story with a happy ending.
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Summary: A heart-warming story
Review: This story doesn't follow the template of a typical romance, where the book ends when the couple admits their mutual love and gets married. Elly and Will reach that point about halfway through the book. But as in real life, they haven't stopped growing when they tie the knot and so they both keep learning -by themselves and together- through the war and a criminal investigation. In the end the reader is thoroughly convinced they belong together and no force in the world can break their love and trust in each other.This story is a shining example of LaVyrle Spencer's talent to describe simple and warm people, quaint settings and uncomplicated plotlines in a slow pace and with tender images. If you want to be taken to a picturesque time and place, get to know and love 'real' people and strengthen your belief in the healing power of love and friendship in the process, this book is an excellent choice.
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Summary: Not enough stars for this book
Review: This was my introduction to Lavyrle Spencer I read it when going on holiday with some friends. I stayed overnight before going on holiday and it was in her bookcase I picked it up just to sift through and just got caught up in the story. I love this book and highly recommend it has heart warmth and great characters. You'll laugh and cry its just such a wonderful book I don't want to spoil by giving away anything.
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Summary: Superb...
Review: Two lonely people, abused and cast aside by society, meet at a time in their lives where both have become desperate in different ways and for different reasons. Elly, recently widowed with two boys and another baby on the way, needs a husband to help with the chores and orchards and heavy work around the farm; Will is tired of drifting and being fired from one job after another because he's an ex-con. Their tentative agreement to have a sort of platonic trial marriage to see if things will work out soon sees them married for real and learning to trust in people, namely each other, again. Though proximity alone often causes two people to gravitate to one another, there is more to the pull between Elly and Will. He sees, and is moved by, her genuine kindness, honesty and compassion. The affection she displays toward her sons makes Will's heart ache with longing for the kind of home and love he's never had. Elly finds in Will steadfastness, dependability, patience and thoughtfulness. Time and mutual admiration for the goodness in each other bring forth a deep and loving bond between them. While neither has had much formal education, as is shown in their grammar and writing skills, it is obvious that they are both extremely intelligent and determined to not only survive, but better themselves, their lives, and the lives of the children. The other characters in the book were entertaining, disturbing, amusing, and thought-provoking. But it is the relationship between the main characters, Elly and Will, which is the driving force in the story and truly moving to watch unfold. Spencer has an extraordinary gift for dialogue -- I can't help but wonder if she ever spent time in the South because, having lived in Georgia all my life, I can usually spot a "fake" right off the bat. Her dialogue is dead on for rural Georgia, especially during the mid-1900's. Her descriptions of the kids, Thomas and Donald Wade, were amazingly visual and had me in stitches. It's rare while reading a romance novel to forget that it's a romance novel. Reading MORNING GLORY was reading great literature. I look forward to reading all Ms. Spencer's work. A passage from one of Elly's letters to Will as he is overseas fighting in World War II: "I went back and read what I wrote and it still don't seem to say it like I feel but telling what love is like is a lot like telling what the call of a bird is like. You hear it and you reckoniz it and its in yourself so strong you think for sure you can repeat it for someone else. But you can't. I just wanted you to know though that I love you different from what I loved Glendon. They say everybody goes through life searching for the other half of hisself and I know now you're the other half of me cause when I'm with you I feel hoel..."
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Summary: Simply Awesome!!
Review: What can I say, I LOVE this book. Hands down my favorite from Lavyrle Spencer. I read this book at least once every 3 months or so, and I never get tired of it. I've read all of her books and recommend her to everyone! No other author even comes close! I am gonna miss her writing soo much, I really really am. I would love to talk to other fans of Ms Spencers about her writing...please feel free to write to me! Would love to hear if anyone has found someone who resembles her style (highly undoubtful).
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