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Summary: Friendship and Food!
Review: A sweet, cozy book with recipes included. There is something about a good story that involves food that speaks to my heart. This will remind you of your grandmother's recipes and your mother's special dishes.
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Summary: Oh my.
Review: As I read the first quarter of Friendship Cake (for a bookclub) I thought it was prosaic and not very well conceived. I'm so glad that it was an 'assignment' and because of that, that I finished it.
The book touched on so many aspects of the angst women feel at any age but particularly as they move into late middle age and beyond. The subjects reflected in the story are timely and will always be current: bigotry, doubt of self and God, homosexuality, infidelity, love, self-righteousness, conflict, resolution, death, birth, interacial marriage and most of all, the bonds of friendship. All of these are wrapped into one slim volume; five hours of reading. I laughed, cried, and more importantly, took away a feeling of hope.
Read the whole thing...it is worth it.
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Summary: An excellent first novel
Review: Enough friendships and recipes to bring five Christian women together to form an alliance to be there for each other through various tribes and tribulations.
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Summary: A pleasant book about friendship
Review: Friendship Cake is a very fast a pleasant book to read. I found the characters believable and likeable and the story held my interest. Plus the recipes sounded very delicious and I plan to try some of them.The book is about five women who have been attending the same church for yearsand they are working together on a Cook Book for the church. While they are working on the book they form a strong friendship and they are able to help each other during some trying times in their lives. I really enjoyed this book and I would recommend it.
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Summary: A pleasant book about friendship
Review: Friendship Cake is a very fast a pleasant book to read. I found the characters believable and likeable and the story held my interest. Plus the recipes sounded very delicious and I plan to try some of them. The book is about five women who have been attending the same church for yearsand they are working together on a Cook Book for the church. While they are working on the book they form a strong friendship and they are able to help each other during some trying times in their lives. I really enjoyed this book and I would recommend it.
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Summary: Left some ingredients out!
Review: I did think this book was sweet. The Idea of recipes woven into the story intrigued me. I do love a book about women's relationships, female bonding, and Ya-Ya sisterhood stuff!!...
But "Friendship Cake" lacked in ingredients. It just didn't have the spices and herbs required to make the recipe reach the depth of true taste. The women, at first, appeared interesting. But their characters remained the same, flat, and non-demensional...as if the yeast was forgotten, which would have allowed the dish to rise, brown, and bring a sweet scent to the room. I found myself not caring what happened to the characters, but did care about the recipes, such as the "sweet potato pie" and "fried grits." I don't have to tell ya, that's not enough.
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Summary: Beautiful story of the healing power of faith and friendship
Review: I loved this book! It's a beautiful story of the healing power and strength of faith, women's friendships and love in real people in the real world. I wish Ms. Hinton were a pastor in my town so I could attend her church. The recipes were an added treat to this well-told story. I'm very happy that she has written a sequel, "Garden of Faith"!
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Summary: Heartwarming? No.
Review: I wouldn't call this book heartwarming. Bittersweet, yes. Heartwarming, no. For a variety of reasons I related most to Louise. I've known families torn apart by Alzheimers or Parkensons disease. I enjoyed the book through the first 2/3 and then much like Breath Eyes Memory, the book went on an abrupt tangent mostly for shock value. I don't think either book needed it Finally, the moral of the story doesn't need to be spelled out with the bogus recipe at the end.
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Summary: Friendship Cake.....
Review: The four members (Margaret Peele, Louise Fisher, Beatrice Newgarden, and Jessie Jenkins) of the Hope Springs Community Church gather to collect and sort recipes for a cookbook, they also bring their life experiences and hopes and burdens. Five very different women begin to form a bond of friendship after years of casual acquaintances. Each one goes through a personal metamorphosis and self-awakening and become interconnected through a series of life events that forms an unbreakable bond. Each one comes to terms with crisis in their lives and realize they are not superwomen and lean on each other to get through difficult times. This is a quick, simple book that addresses all kinds of issues of loneliness, unplanned teenage pregnancy, cancer, Alzheimer's, lost love, death of a child, faith in God, racism, homosexuality, and various other situations. The author addresses the topics carefully sprinkling humor and Southern Recipes throughout...ending the novel with the recipe for Friendship Cake. It is a quick, easy, and enjoyable read with a positive lesson to carry forward.
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Summary: One of the best!
Review: This book was insulting. It was contrived and fluffy. I want my life back.
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