Rating: Summary: AWESOME BOOK!!! Review: Thank you so much for sharing this book with us. Once I started reading it I could not put it down. Keep up the good work. If you have not read it you need to its great. It makes you laugh, cry and go wow I am not the only one that feel this way.
Rating: Summary: Thank-you Review: Thanks is just a beginning of what I could say about this book. With my daughter going through her husbands first deployment to Baghdad, it was very touching, realistic, down to earth and made me laugh for days. It also gave me great ideas for helping my 3 year old grandson go through this deployment as well. For any military family member or friend on this road for the first time, I encourage them to read it. Thanks again for the reality and for the laughter.
Rating: Summary: A MUST HAVE FOR ALL NAVY WIVES! Review: This book was well written and is a book you cant put down until you reach the back cover!It takes every Navy wife or family member right to where the Author was at that point and time. Highly recommended read. Impatiently waiting a sequel..
Rating: Summary: Labor of love Review: This is a book everyone should read. Alesia Holliday has managed to show us a wonderful relationship as a true labor of love. Warm, witty and heartfelt, this book belongs in every American's heart.
Rating: Summary: It's Great Review: When I first stumbled across this book, I was overcome with a sense of sadness. I had no idea how to go about reading a book that I thought would be so very sad. However, this book could not have been more of a delight to read. I had tears of pain running silently down my cheeks, and other times where the laughter could not be controlled. Probably the best thing about this book is that it shares insight into a military wife's life, which is something that not many people understand. It shows how 6 months can seem like an eternity, and a phone call at 4 o'clock in the morning is a godsend.
Rating: Summary: What A Wonderful, Eye-Opening Book! Review: Wow! Where to start? Before reading E-MAIL TO THE FRONT, I appreciated America's military families in a vague sort of way. Yes, I knew they worried about their loved ones who had been deployed thousands of miles away and that it must be difficult for them to cope with the absence of a missing husband or wife, but I had no real concept of the everyday sacrifices they make on our behalf. This book changed all that! What is it like to have a toddler and a newborn, move two thousand miles away from your family and friends, and then wave good-bye to your husband for six months? How do you manage to get a job (as a trial lawyer, no less), deal with the usual array of childhood illnesses, feed the dog, mow the lawn, and manage the million and one details of family life while also trying to keep your marriage thriving by having phone sex on monitored lines from thousands of miles away? Read E-MAIL TO THE FRONT, and you'll find out how! Ms. Holliday gives us a look into the real challenges military families face--not the sometimes whitewashed, rah-rah version we see so often in the media. This sometimes funny, sometimes poignant account of how she survived her husband's two deployments will make you want to go up to the next military family you see and say "thank you." And I want to say "thank you" to the author for this wonderfully written, thoroughly entertaining book that opened my eyes to what it's like for the families left behind!
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