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Summary: I should have went to sleep.
Review: I absolutely love her writing style. I was so into the book that I couldn't put it down and stayed up all night to see what happened. And then, nothing did. I should have went to sleep. Worth reading, but I didn't really like the ending.
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Summary: good story
Review: I just finished reading this book. It was so hard to put down. I got to the last 60 pages and had to finish it to find out the ending. It is the story of Molly Redwine. A woman married right out of college, whose husband leaves her for a much younger woman. Molly goes to the coast to try to get her life back. She stays in a cabin owned by a woman who tells her she can stay there for the winter. All she has to do is help out 3 ill people. All she has to do in get their grocery's for them and drive them to their doctors. It turns out to be much, much more. It has sad parts, mad parts and funny parts. Ms. Siddons is a excellent author. She gets you and she keeps you until the end of the book. This is a great read.
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Summary: As good as Outer Banks
Review: This novel by Siddons is probably #2 on my list by this author. The characters are believable, the story line flows easily and you really get into the story. I think it is brilliantly written.
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Summary: depth beneath the story
Review: Something is going on here that reaches deeply beneath the characters and incidents of the story, easily missed if one does not pay heed to Molly's early musings about family. She is asking a profound question about what determines our social units: must they be consistent, continuous, normative? Or is there room for the quirky, the alien, the threatening, the dying? In the end she finds a definition of family that defies the reality of loss, universalizes beyond the confines of parochialism, and offers up hope. Are the characters profound - No, not in their individual selves. Is the plot profound - No, not in its specific events. But, if you catch this glimpse of one's own ability to choose the meaning of family, that is profound. And, also if you hear the message that the only way to deal with loss is through the pain, not around it, you get a bonus gift. Earth-shattering ....not really, but provocative for those who open themselves to the meanings beyond the superficial.
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Summary: A less than stellar book by Anne Rivers Siddons.
Review: I enjoyed her other books more. I was intrigued by the first half of the book and the struggle that Molly had undertaken, but the last half of the book fell flat. It seemed like the odd characters introduced in that half undermined Molly's eventual realization of herself as a strong woman. I loved the background on Martha's Vineyard but I felt it was also lost in the muddle of the characters' traumas.
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Summary: a terrific beginning...
Review: that just goes down hill from slow to bad to worse. i really loved the authors style of writing in the beginning, actually feeling the emotions of molly, and i guess that could have been because of all the detail that was put into thoughts, sights, feelings, etc. as the book moved along, the very thing that captured my interest began to lose it. a perfect example of this happens when she brings her dog to the cabin and it takes three pages to describe how the dog went from one area, smelling, inspecting only to move on to the next. i believe it was at that point of the book that i stopped reading all the discription and just moved along to the interaction between her and other characters. wish i had enjoyed it more.
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Summary: This is the worst book I've listened to in a long time.
Review: The more I got into this audio, the more I began to dislike the characters, especially Molly. I wondered how she let her father get so sick, and was angry at her about this. Another thing that really bothered me was how ARS kept referring to Dennis as Dennis Ponder, like there was more than one Dennis in the book.
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Summary: Not impressed
Review: My mother gave me this book because I enjoyed reading "Downtown," but this one just didn't work for me. I didn't really care about the characters, and frankly thought that they just got loaded down with every problem possible, to the point of ridiculous. But the settings were well described.Wouldn't recommend it.
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Summary: An entertaining, quick read but nothing that will stick!
Review: I was frankly surprised to see that this book has such a high rating with Amazon readers. I was pretty disappointed by the time I was finished with the book. The only character that evokes even a little sympathy is Molly's father. For Molly, her son, her daughter, her cheating husband and her so-called friends, I didn't have much feelings at all. And there is not much point even talking about that dysfunctional bunch she latches onto "up island". It would have helped immensely if we had had a little bit of problem resolution. I also would have liked Molly to show a little more backbone or spirit or determination or something akin to the qualities she must have to be the type of woman we are led to believe she is. Sign me - a 40 year old avid reader
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Summary: Good summer reading
Review: I enjoyed this book enough to read it last summer and re read it this summer. It hit home in many ways. I can only hope that someone DOES bind and gag Linda from MA.
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