More Than Memory

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Summary: Dorothy has done it again...
Review: "More than a Memory" is quite a good read. This book has the ability to help me feel the emotion that the characters are feeling. She [Ms. Garlock] helps one to get into the heads of her characters, which I find to be quite well written, and understand the predicament from their perspective. Her characters also come across as real and not contrived. This book also flows well, a real "page turner" if you will.

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Summary: Another Powerful Winner by Garlock
Review: Dorothy Garlock never disappoints. Her stories are realistic, heart breaking but heart warming and wonderful to read. You just immerse yourself in her stories and feel what the characters are feeling. She always gives you your money's worth and more.

Lute and Nelda's story has been described well by other writers. They loved lost, settled their problems and loved again. Lute and Nelda were forced by her militant father to wed then immediately after the wedding, Nelda's father told Lute he was filing for a divorce between them. They leave for Des Moines. The pregnant Nelda has her baby and the baby dies six months later.

Eight years later, Nelda and Lute meet at the baby's gravesite and each has misconceptions about the other.

This story is about lost love, misconceptions, misunderstandings and a resolution of those problems. A realistic story set in the 1950s, that era being very close to my heart. Read this wonderful story and suffer, then rejoice with Lute and Nelda.

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Summary: Another Powerful Winner by Garlock
Review: Dorothy Garlock never disappoints. Her stories are realistic, heart breaking but heart warming and wonderful to read. You just immerse yourself in her stories and feel what the characters are feeling. She always gives you your money's worth and more.

Lute and Nelda's story has been described well by other writers. They loved lost, settled their problems and loved again. Lute and Nelda were forced by her militant father to wed then immediately after the wedding, Nelda's father told Lute he was filing for a divorce between them. They leave for Des Moines. The pregnant Nelda has her baby and the baby dies six months later.

Eight years later, Nelda and Lute meet at the baby's gravesite and each has misconceptions about the other.

This story is about lost love, misconceptions, misunderstandings and a resolution of those problems. A realistic story set in the 1950s, that era being very close to my heart. Read this wonderful story and suffer, then rejoice with Lute and Nelda.

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Summary: totally disappointed
Review: I agreed with 'a reader from Richmond.' This book stunk! I found Lute to be a totally obnoxious man with very few redeeming qualities. After enjoying books by Garlock such as The Listening Sky (my favorite), The Edge of Town, and With Hope, I was totally disappointed with the plot, the characters, and the overall plot of this book. If you've never read a Dorothy Garlock book, don't start with this one. Read one of the ones I mentioned and you'll be a Garlock fan. If you read this book first, you'll probably never read another one of her books and you'll miss out on some wonderful historical romances.

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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: I am a new fan of Dorothy Garlock's books. Unlike her other more popular ones, this book is not one in a series of 3 or 4 books this story stands alone. (It's nice not to have an open ending for a change.)

Nelda and Lute are high school sweethearts forced to marry-and-divorce (by Nelda's [angry] father) at a young age due to accidental pregnancy.

The story is about the couple meeting again 9 years later and all the hurt and sadness that comes with not having closure. Nelda and Lute's hurtful past kept them apart but love and old desires resurface--which unwillingly pulls them together.

While this book is not Garlock's best, it is a very excellent read. As with all of Garlock's books, you cannot put the book down from page one. You will be, as usual, very happy with the story. If you've never read a Garlock, you MUST pick this one up. It will be the beginning of a very happy relationship with Dorothy Garlock books!

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Summary: Not one of her best
Review: I am new to Dorothy Garlock but thought this story was charming and heart warming. You kept hoping that they would get their act together and cheering for them. There was also intrigue and mystery. I am now a brand new fan of hers and can't wait to read more of her books. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

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Summary: More Than Memory
Review: I am new to Dorothy Garlock but thought this story was charming and heart warming. You kept hoping that they would get their act together and cheering for them. There was also intrigue and mystery. I am now a brand new fan of hers and can't wait to read more of her books. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

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Summary: Not one of her best
Review: I have read many Dorothy Garlock books, and this one is really not that good. It is a mediocre love story of two high school sweet hearts. Throughout the book, Nelda and Lute continually sleep together, fight, and then make up. This cycle repeats itself about three times. It gets boring after awhile. After the Parade was a much better book.

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Summary: A Slow Starter
Review: I really do love Dorothy Garlock and I have thoroughly enjoyed all of her books that I have read up to this one But More than Memory was a major dissappointment. First of all, the first 100 pages were just plain boring. I didn't really start to become even slightly interested in it until around page 130. I would have put it down and not finished it but I try really hard to finish every book I start. I thought the last 4th of the book was good, but as a whole it was unsatisfying. The 2 main characters, Nelda and Lute, are in constant battle and then suddenly they'll just have sex. The next thing you know, they're fighting. It's a constant circle that repeats itself. I would not recommend this book to anyone, Especially if you have never read a Dorothy Garlock book. Try Annie Lash, With Hope, or The Searching Hearts. These are a few of my Favorites!!

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Summary: A beautiful dramatic romance
Review: In 1949 Clear Lake, Iowa, teenager Nelda Hansen married Lute Hanson. However, a minute after they exchanged "I do's" her father, who forced the marriage, informs the groom that he will receive the divorce papers as soon as the lawyer finishes them. The marine captain still cannot believe his daughter shacked up with a hayseed bumpkin like Lute and is now four months pregnant. Not listening to anyone, the military officer takes his daughter in hand and leaves for Des Moines. A little less than a year later, Nelda's six-month old child dies. Neither she nor her father attended the funeral.

Eight more years pass before Nelda returns home to the family farm. She still loves Lute as she immediately realizes when she sees him for the first time since her father took charge of their marriage and divorce. To his chagrin, Lute never forgot Nelda. However, both share misconceptions about the other from the incident that destroyed their future together.

MORE THAN A MEMORY is an enjoyable historical relationship drama that makes the lifestyle of the 1950's heartland seem very much alive. Younger readers will be shocked by the marine's actions, but single and pregnant was a fate worse than death back then. The lead couple is a warm pair who deserves a second chance. However, the meat of Dorothy Garlock's tale is the era as she portrays a radically different set of values (than today) wrapped inside a wonderful romance.

Harriet Klausner