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Summary: VERY confusing
Review: There is way too much going on in this book and it skips around so much with different characters that it makes it hard to follow I would NOT recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: It didn't deliver
Review: This book had promise, but the author did not deliver. I couldn't find sympathy for or even like the characters. The story dragged. But the most off-putting aspect was the writing. Rather than letting the characters convey the story, emotions, etc. Kris Radish TOLD the reader what to think. And the lesbian angle to the book didn't endear me to the book either. I don't recommend this book. And I agree with the other reviewer who commented that this book was tailored to be an Oprah Book club selection.
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Summary: Moved Beyond Words (almost)
Review: This book makes me want to drink exotic teas and walk long distances, all in the company of a group of female friends. If not that, at least get around to picking up my bedroom so I can feel content in it! I just finished The Elegant Gathering of White Snows, crying and laughing throughout. It is the story of eight wildly different women who are able to come together and gain strength individually through their friendship. Few books are powerful enough to make me cry, yet this one does - not in a sad, depressing way, but because of how the human spirit allows us to move beyond our tragedies. I am recommending it to all the women I know, and even though I am part of a book club, I hope all the members will read it now, rather than waiting for this moving emperience!
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Summary: Fill your spirit!
Review: This book speaks to the hearts of all women. It reminds us of how important and nurturing female friendships can be, and how much we really do need each other in order to grow as individuals. It reminds us that in spite of all of the roles we play, we must remember to check in with our spirits. The women in the story, who embark on this adventure, feel like friends and neighbors. Each morning I awoke to see where they were and what they were learning as they continued on their search for answers and forgiveness. I adored this story, and am hungry for another one like it.
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Summary: This book will change your life
Review: This is a powerful tale of love and change. It is a story every woman need to read. This is the kind of book you will want to put under your pillow and share with all of your women friends. I have shared it with every wman I know and every man who wants to know what makes a woman's heart sing, what her soul looks and feels like - needs to read and digest this book. It is a story of courage and I hope it gets the wide audience it deserves. It is a beautiful, wise and fine story. A part of every woman is in the book. Read it. you must read it.
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Summary: only for those into melodrama
Review: This is not a badly written book, but it is definitely over the top in terms of melodrama. It has that "written for the book club" feel, and includes just about every terrible and tragic thing that could possibly happen to a woman--yes, there's the abused wife, the rape victim, the wife with the cheating husband, the [...], the tough broad, the depressive etc. etc. Even the supposedly happy characters are so stock--the woman with the incredibly understanding husband, the woman with the blissfully happy marriage. If that's your kind of book, more power to you--you will enjoy it--if it's not, definitely avoid this one at all costs. I cringed through most of it.
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Summary: A Trivial and Poorly Written Book
Review: This is the first on-line book review that I have ever written, but having just finished this book I feel compelled to try to save other readers from wasting their money on this pathetic effort! As a woman I felt that it was a demeaning trivialization of my sex. Ms. Radish has flimsily created a group of female characters who are emotional cripples who ridiculously "find themselves" by taking a 6 day walk in the countryside holding hands and "sharing". Honestly, if I were a professional man and I read this book, I would be scared to death to hire a female for fear that she might turn out in any way, shape or form like any of the characters in this book. My experience in life has shown that women are strong, resilient survivors, not the whimpering lost souls that the reader must endure in this novel. In addition, Ms. Radish does not develop her characters well nor does she provide any logical reason for why 7 women on a country road inspire international press coverage and miraculous life changes for the people who read about them. In short, there are so many excellent books out there to spend our time and money on and this is NOT one of them!!!!
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Summary: So bad I had to say something
Review: This is the worst book I have read in recent history. The author needs to take some classes on how to write a readable book; the characters are so poorly presented I felt like I was grading a middle school writing assignment. I would give this effort an "F". If this is supposed to be empowering to women, I am ashamed to be one. Never have I read a book that made me roll my eyes with each new page of the whining, hollow and self centered characters that I was presented with. If you want empowerment, look elsewhere!
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Summary: What a flop
Review: This was such a disappointment. It read like a Lifetime movie of the week, only not even as good. The premise of a group of middle-aged women spontaneously leaving home and walking had promise, but the characters were never developed well. It fell into a "poor me" sympathy-fest, where all men are inconsiderate dolts, and only women can "understand" anything important or meaningful. I also felt like the author was trying to push lesbianism as the solution to all their problems. Don't waste your money or your time, I'm afraid.
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Summary: Calculated to be an "Oprah" book
Review: Too bad Oprah dumped her book club, because the author went to a lot of trouble to try to write a book that might have been considered had the execution been better. As it is, this is a slow read about a group of women, most of whom come off as a bunch of self-pitying whiners. Even the name seems to emulate another much more successful book, "Snow Falling on Cedars."
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