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Summary: Love it every time I read it
Review: It amazes me that someone out there actually didn't enjoy this book. This was a fantastic read. I bought this book less than a year ago, and I've read it at least 9 times since then. Bamboo and Lace was more than a novel to me. To me, this book was a goal. By that I mean that the characters are so real and tangible, and the way they lived just inspired me to grow and become more like them in certain ways. I learned so much from this book. I've recommended it to at least a dozen friends and family. Everyone that I know that has read it has said the same thing--they loved it and couldn't put it down--even friends of mine that hate to read were so in love with this book that it made them pick up more of Lori Wick's books. Bamboo & Lace is packed with truths and insights. The relationships of the characters makes it flow so wonderfully. I highly recommend this book. It's just simply amazing.
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Summary: She's done it again!
Review: Lori Wick has done it again. I highly recammend this book to anyone! I related to this book on so many levels that it was uncanny, and I think that anyone and everyone will look a little deeper into themselves after reading this book. The characters were lovable and beautifully developed and enhanced the wonderfully ingenious plot that Lori Wick is famous for. The faith that this book shows through its characters is moving and bittersweet. Read it a second time and you will fall in love all over again! Let's hear it for Lori Wick!
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Summary: Just in Time
Review: Lori Wick is a great author! She knows how to write a story and be able to touch your life through it. With this story what touched me the most was the adoptions, and the cultural differences that someone would have to be willing to bare to adopt from another country.
What also touched me is where she has the characters dealing with the emotion of anger. This is an emotion I deal with. She has a way of touching your life just in the time you need it!
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Summary: Missed the boat
Review: Lori Wick is an amazingly talented author who I have enjoyed over the years. Unfortunately, I believe she missed the boat with Bamboo and Lace. I am extremely concerned with her lack of understanding about anger. We are allowed feelings of anger without guilt when our anger is displayed appropriately. I am appalled by Mrs. Wick's assertion that all anger is directed toward God. That simply is not Biblical. I have deep concerns about what this book says to new Christians. We all "strive for perfection" and we all fall short. Mrs. Wick needs to show the internal struggles that most of us battle with our emotions and our daily lives. None of us can live up to the model that is portrayed in Bamboo and Lace. How discouraging. And how much more powerful this book would have been had we been allowed to see more realistic characters fighting their daily battles, instead of cardboard Christian paperdoll people who never fail, and who have all their dreams come true.
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Summary: Pretty good, with some comments
Review: Overall, this book was a really good book about the romance between Lily and Gabe, and the problems that Lily had with her father. I like how Wick seems to write for the Lord, and the book is strongly Biblically based. We need more fiction out there that is Christian. There were a couple of points that prevented me from given this book a 5 star rating.The characters were a little too good to be true and a little bit 1-dimensional. Practically everybody was a Christian. Lily was, at times, a little "too nice", and it about drove me nuts. I was happy that Lily stood up to her father later in the book, and showed a little bit of spunk there. I like to read about characters who have character flaws because these characters are a little easier to relate to and are more real. Read the "Seasons" series by LaHaye and Blackstock to know what I'm talking about. Second, I would have liked to have seen the reasons why Lily's father treated Lily the way he did, treating her like women were treated in Kashien. It was mentioned that he treated her like he did after Lily's mother died, yet, it seemed that that aspect of Lily's and Owen's relationship wasn't explored as thoroughly as it could have been. Also, Wick makes the mistake that many Christians make in assuming that anger is a sin. Anger itself is not a sin. It is what you do with the anger that is a sin (example: Owen treating Lily as he did, Bailey expecting everyone to do things her way before she changed). This is backed up in Ephesians with the verse: Be angry but sin not. And there is such a thing as righteous anger, being angry at sin. Owen's way of treating Lily was sinful, and Lily had a right to be angry about that, but it seemed that the character was being punished for that anger. Again, this was a good book overall, and I would recommend it. I liked the evangelical approach, but I wished that the characters weren't so goody-goody.
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Summary: VERY unrealistic.....
Review: This book is pretty much the worst book I've read in a long time. Ms.Wick's characters are completely unrealistic.... and don't go through real human emotions. Though Ms.Wick's books are usually unrealistic.... this one takes the cake! The characters are too "good" and too "perfect". The whole story is superficial and shallow. I wouldn't reccomend this piece to anyone...... don't waste your time.
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Summary: I've read it - love it - that's why i'm buying my own copy!
Review: This is by far one of the best books I have ever read. Lily is a wonderful character. She is an American 24 year old woman who was raised her entire life in Kashien. Her father raised her strictly as a Kashienese woman after her mother past away. Her brother Jeff who had moved to the Hawaiian islands finally convinced his father to allow her to visit the states for her very first time. Lily and all those around her battle with culture shock, spiritual battles, and realizing God's will for their lives. This is a story that may seem it would never come true. But that is why it is called a story. Lori Wick is an excellent writer who tells stories in a way that we can look at the characters as roll models of how a Christian should live, think, pray, and love. You will fall in love with the characters and when you're done reading it you'll want to read it again - I did!!
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Summary: I've read it - love it - that's why i'm buying my own copy!
Review: This is by far one of the best books I have ever read. Lily is a wonderful character. She is an American 24 year old woman who was raised her entire life in Kashien. Her father raised her strictly as a Kashienese woman after her mother past away. Her brother Jeff who had moved to the Hawaiian islands finally convinced his father to allow her to visit the states for her very first time. Lily and all those around her battle with culture shock, spiritual battles, and realizing God's will for their lives. This is a story that may seem it would never come true. But that is why it is called a story. Lori Wick is an excellent writer who tells stories in a way that we can look at the characters as roll models of how a Christian should live, think, pray, and love. You will fall in love with the characters and when you're done reading it you'll want to read it again - I did!!
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Summary: Inspiring, Entertaining and Touching!
Review: This is the first book of Lori Wick's I've read. I've almost finished the book, and I simply love it! I grew to care very much about the characters and their story. It made me laugh and cry! It made me take a look at my own spiritual life and see some things I could do differently to become more like Christ. It made me thankful for my family and friends, and especially my dear husband. It was simply a wonderful book. Regarding the earlier negative review, I enjoyed the changing point-of-view, as I'm always wondering what all the characters are thinking, and she made it very clear whose POV it was, never making you guess. An author has the right to take creative liberties with his or her work and I think Lori Wick has done so to her, and our, advantage. I believe the characters and their actions were very plausible and completely in line with their personalities. Never were they boring or predictible, but I did not react in disbelief at their words or actions either. They were dynamic, interesting characters. Bamboo and Lace was a captivating book and I'm a better person for having read it. I will be reading many more works of Lori Wick's. Enjoy the book!
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Summary: Another wonderful Contempory Christian novel by Lori Wick!
Review: To be honest, the title of Lori Wick's newest novel had me wondering what I would be in store for. (The title will make perfect sense about 3/4 of the way through the novel...it is exactly right.) I was so happy to read the back cover and realize it was a contemporary piece set in Hawaii. Once again, Mrs. Wick has created a novel with a touching plot, dynamic characters, and God-inspired messages of self-worth, anger, showing love, submission, adoption, and much more. Lily Walsh has lived her whole life in Kashien (an Asian village country) with her domineering missionary father, but now at the age of 24 is granted the opportunity to visit her brother in Hawaii. Lily's discovering of the modern conviences of life quickly makes her endearing to the reader. (I'll never chew another piece of gum without thinking of Lily!) The main male character in the novel, Gabe Kapaia, is a close friend of Lily's brother and the moment Gabe and Lily meet everyone knows, except them for awhile of course, that they are perfect for each other. Through several twisting turns, it is obvious that God has carefully orchstrated their entire lives for them to meet at this time and place. A lesson to us all to WAIT on the Lord and surrender our ALL to Him. While 440 pages seems like quite a few pages, the length is perfect as it takes the reader past the "typcial" ending of many contemporary pieces. I'll be honest and admit that I spent an entire Saturday afternoon and evening outside on a lawn chair reading Mrs. Wick's book. (The only time I stopped was to run inside the house and apply some sun screen! Read the book, you'll understand that comment!) You won't regret any time you spend reading this book. Read it with an open mind and willing heart.
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