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Summary: Very moving!
Review: A wonderful book! Delinsky grabs your interest immediately and keeps it going 'til the last page. I recently started reading her when someone gave me her book "Suddenly" and read 8 more by her. "Coast Road" and "Three Wishes" are also great. This one is about a mother that didn't bond with her daughters while they were growing up, and why, and all the regrets on both sides, as they all reluctantly come together for Mom's 70th birthday. It's a great love story, but much more than that. Expect to shed a tear, and a few smiles. A great book! One you will want to keep on your library shelf.
Rating:
Summary: Very moving!
Review: A wonderful book! Delinsky grabs your interest immediately and keeps it going 'til the last page. I recently started reading her when someone gave me her book "Suddenly" and read 8 more by her. "Coast Road" and "Three Wishes" are also great. This one is about a mother that didn't bond with her daughters while they were growing up, and why, and all the regrets on both sides, as they all reluctantly come together for Mom's 70th birthday. It's a great love story, but much more than that. Expect to shed a tear, and a few smiles. A great book! One you will want to keep on your library shelf.
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Summary: The daughters found out that their mother was human too
Review: Another great book by Ms. Delinsky. It's funny how, as children, we imagine our parents a certain way----mainly because they are our guidance and our disciplinarians-----but when we are grown up and they let us see their true human events in their lives, it's at times crushing and at times comical and at times refreshing. This is a wonderful story, and as a 50 year old woman, I surely can relate to it as well as understand some of the perplexing attitudes and looks I get from my twin, 16 year old daughters. This book will make you think about relationships of long ago.Read it, you'll love it.
Rating: 
Summary: Enjoyable
Review: Delinsky made me care about the character's and root for their happiness. If you like novels, definately check this out but if you've never read her then you must start with "The Woman Next Door" or "A Woman's Place" or even "Coast Road".
Rating:
Summary: Enjoyable
Review: Delinsky made me care about the character's and root for their happiness. If you like novels, definately check this out but if you've never read her then you must start with "The Woman Next Door" or "A Woman's Place" or even "Coast Road".
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Summary: Well Done!
Review: I couldn't put this book down! A friend told me to read this book and I was so glad I did-it's wonderful! I am one of three daughters and I could relate to the characters in this story. Delinsky's descriptions of Maine and the flowers in the garden, etc. I just felt like I was there. She is a very wonderful storyteller.
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Summary: Spectacular Read, one of Delinsky's best!
Review: I couldn't put this book down! A friend told me to read this book and I was so glad I did-it's wonderful! I am one of three daughters and I could relate to the characters in this story. Delinsky's descriptions of Maine and the flowers in the garden, etc. I just felt like I was there. She is a very wonderful storyteller.
Rating:
Summary: Well Done!
Review: I really enjoyed this book! The characters were extremely well-rounded and fleshed out. After reading the novel, they stayed with me as if they were old friends. The story was realistic and held my attention. I read the book in a day and a half because I couldn't put it down. The dialogue was so natural. I truly felt like Barbara could have been recounting a true story word for word. The relationships between the characters are 3-dimensional, and I understood all the character's reasons for making the decisions they made. I cried, I laughed a little, and I felt alot. This book revealed some truths about how many people live their lives in fear of being unaccepted and unloved, and how some do not know how to show love or know when they are loved.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: Simply put, this book stinks. Barbara Delinksky once wrote a book called " A Woman's Place" and it was excellent. It was about a successful businesswoman's attempt to regain custody from her whiney, jealous ex-husband. It was gritty and real and showed the prejudice against a woman who wants a career and children. Then along comes this piece of pointless fluff " For My Daughters." It might as well have the Harlequin symbol on it, for it was just as mindless and stupid as one of those trashy love novels. Three daughters travel to their mother's recently purchased summer home and there they either find - or rekindle - true love. Zero points for originality, zero points for dialogue which at times is laughable, and zero points for an unrealistic, sugar-coated plot. Yech
Rating:
Summary: A disappointment
Review: The plot is predictable as usual, but after all, that's why we read these things! Delinsky does an excellent job of providing a story that movingly fills in the different characters' points of view, sympathizing with them and criticizing them all where appropriate, and uplifts the audience. Not a profound literary treasure, but good reading for a pick me up on a down day.
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