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Summary: The Pink Magnolia Club is fantastic
Review: As a survivor of breast cancer, I am telling all of my friends that this book is a MUST read. Geralyn has managed to put so many of my own feelings and emotions into this book. As I read the book, I could see many of my friends who are also survivors. This is one book that I will reread, keep and cherish. She has told a story about breast cancer so well and she is not even a survivor! I truly hope that Geralyn will write a sequel or perhaps a series of books with this one as number one in the series. There are so many stories about breast cancer out there...this one is a winner.
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Summary: The Pink Magnolia Club is fantastic
Review: As a survivor of breast cancer, I am telling all of my friends that this book is a MUST read. Geralyn has managed to put so many of my own feelings and emotions into this book. As I read the book, I could see many of my friends who are also survivors. This is one book that I will reread, keep and cherish. She has told a story about breast cancer so well and she is not even a survivor! I truly hope that Geralyn will write a sequel or perhaps a series of books with this one as number one in the series. There are so many stories about breast cancer out there...this one is a winner.
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Summary: SUPERB READ
Review: Geralyn Dawson has written a book that runs the gamit of emotions. You laugh, cry and cheer for her ladies. The characters and story line are well developed. By the time the book ends you feel like they're people you've known forever. I'm only sorry it wasn't longer.
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Summary: This is a fabulous book about our lives...
Review: I have to admit I picked up this book because of its title. But a few pages into this book, I was so riveted that I simply couldn't put it down, I couldn't stop reading. Then I went back and re-read it slowly and carefully, to the very last page, because this is one of the best books I have ever read.
This book *is* about "The Make a Wish Foundation", and about breast cancer, but on the other hand, it is also about so much more, and it was so well-written, so beautifully and realistically categorized, that, like some previous reviewers, I would love to see another book on these characters. Ms. Dawson, Encore, please!
This book starts off about Holly, but she quickly meets Maggie and Grace, and they soon turn into a three-some of good friends, cemented by the fact that they are all going through some kind of crisis in their life. Holly is twenty-five, Maggie is forty-five, and Grace is in her mid-sixties, so that we get a very good snapshot of three women at three very crucial stages of their life - Holly, who is entering adulthood, Maggie, facing her empty nest, and Grace, dealing with the inevitable problems of aging and sickness. We also get some very cute conversations as they explore the generation gap - and their different attitudes towards work, marriage, husbands, children.
I loved, loved, loved this book. I have to admit that I like books with more than one plot-thread, I tend to get bored easily and I like books like this that have more than one primary character that can keep my interest. Add to that some extremely realistic characters, and excellent writing, and I, at least, have found a real keeper. There is something about each of these three women's dilemma's that ring true, that feel real. While I have been in Holly's shoes, and I can tell you that that is *exactly* how I felt, I can feel that Maggie and Grace, too, were extremely realistically portrayed.
I did not feel that this book had too little of the men-in-their-lives, I think that that would have made it a little too complicated, and besides, this book was all about the women.
No matter what your tastes, I really don't think that you can go wrong with this truly exceptional novel!
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Summary: Easy, Enjoyable, Touching Read
Review: I read this book in a matter of a 24 hour period. It was a quick easy and enjoyable read. As a BRCA1 "previvor" this book hit the mark with the emotions and fears of Holly. I can't even decide who my favorite character was. I too really hope for a sequel. I want to learn more about all three characters. I laughed a ton and shed many tears. I personally think men would enjoy this book as well if you are living with or contemplating a relationship with women living with the fear of cancer. It was so heartwarming to see the bond that developed so deeply and quickly between these three women. My favorite read of the summer.
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Summary: Easy, Enjoyable, Touching Read
Review: I read this book in a matter of a 24 hour period. It was a quick easy and enjoyable read. As a BRCA1 "previvor" this book hit the mark with the emotions and fears of Holly. I can't even decide who my favorite character was. I too really hope for a sequel. I want to learn more about all three characters. I laughed a ton and shed many tears. I personally think men would enjoy this book as well if you are living with or contemplating a relationship with women living with the fear of cancer. It was so heartwarming to see the bond that developed so deeply and quickly between these three women. My favorite read of the summer.
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Summary: wonderful relationship drama
Review: In Fort Worth, three women meet in the ladies room of the Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation meeting hall. Middle aged Maggie Prescott is giving away her wedding gown that she wore twenty-five years ago because she believes her husband Mike no longer cares about her. Holly Weeks is stunned because the man she loves has proposed, a request that goes contrary to her life list and heats up her fears following her mother's death years ago from breast cancer. The third bathroom buddy sixty-five year old Grace Hardeman suffers from breast cancer.Though from three different generations, the trio becomes friends. Grace provides a role model for her younger buddies as her philosophy of "today is a gift that's why it's called the present" resonates in all she does. However, even she fears dying as it is a matter of time before she must enter the hospital with her beloved loyal husband and her two pals providing her support. Readers who enjoy a wonderful relationship drama that emphasizes the importance of loved ones during a health crisis will want to read THE PINK MAGNOLIA CLUB and donate to the Making Memories Foundation. The story line moves the audience through the three women confronting varying traumas in different ways. The characters seem genuine and fans will hope for the best whatever that might be for each one. Geralyn Dawson provides a powerfully emotional tale that will bring her much praise from fans and reviewers (and tissue companies) for this courageous tale. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: wonderful relationship drama
Review: In Fort Worth, three women meet in the ladies room of the Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation meeting hall. Middle aged Maggie Prescott is giving away her wedding gown that she wore twenty-five years ago because she believes her husband Mike no longer cares about her. Holly Weeks is stunned because the man she loves has proposed, a request that goes contrary to her life list and heats up her fears following her mother's death years ago from breast cancer. The third bathroom buddy sixty-five year old Grace Hardeman suffers from breast cancer. Though from three different generations, the trio becomes friends. Grace provides a role model for her younger buddies as her philosophy of "today is a gift that's why it's called the present" resonates in all she does. However, even she fears dying as it is a matter of time before she must enter the hospital with her beloved loyal husband and her two pals providing her support. Readers who enjoy a wonderful relationship drama that emphasizes the importance of loved ones during a health crisis will want to read THE PINK MAGNOLIA CLUB and donate to the Making Memories Foundation. The story line moves the audience through the three women confronting varying traumas in different ways. The characters seem genuine and fans will hope for the best whatever that might be for each one. Geralyn Dawson provides a powerfully emotional tale that will bring her much praise from fans and reviewers (and tissue companies) for this courageous tale. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Tissues! Tissues!
Review: It begins with Holly setting out to check off to check off at least one and maybe two goals on her life list. When she reaches the room where she plans to begin this goal, having sex in an improper setting with her boyfriend, Justin, he ruins it by proposing to her in front of a ballroom full fo people. She reacts by running from the room and getting sick in the bathroom. There, she meets two older women. Both are there as part of the Dresses for Dreams sale, where old wedding gowns are donated and sold to make wishes come true for breast cancer patients. Grace, the elder of the two, is working there, and Maggie has donated her dress, though it was hard for her. They get to witness a spectacular to do when Jusin follows Holly into the ladies room then storms off, leaving the girl confused and hurt. They form a bond and continue to meet, sharing their problems and woes. Maggie's big problem is she and her husband Mike have drifted apart, so much so that he forgot their twenty fifth annerversary and has now bought a boat, intending to sail the Caribean for a few months, alone. He needs some time. Grace and her Ben are still happily married, except for one problem. He is in denial about her fatal prognosis with cancer. As the story progresses, the three women work on putting together a fiftieth annerversary party for Grace and Ben, though Holly and Maggie secretly plan for it to be a second wedding to make up for the big one she did not have. Maggie tries dating and also has a few attempts at dealing with Mike, while Holly confronts the fear that keeps her from marrying Justin, or anyone, with a clear mind. They make more life lists, go to jail together, and eat lots of chocolate. ***** A favorite author makes a change of pace in this heart warming, sometimes funny, sometimes painful novel that no woman should miss. This is one of those books where a lot happens, but it's hard to describe. It is a gentle walk that will renew something inside you and make you appreciate life. Does Grace get her dream wedding? What happens to the two estranged couples? Read it and find out, just keep some tissue and chocolate handy. ***** Reviewed by Amanda Killgore.
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Summary: Ms. Dawson will touch hearts with THE PINK MAGNOLIA CLUB
Review: It made me laugh, made me cry, made me want to kick a man or two. This is a women's friendship book but it does have romance in it. Believeable romance. Romance that isn't perfect, but you want it to be for them. I loved the three women. I want friends like Holly, Maggie, and Grace. Where do they live? They have so much fun!
Best book I've read all summer, by far.
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