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Summary: Starts slow, but I loved it.
Review: This book started extremely slow, I wasn't thrilled that we spent the first 200 pages on Ria. But then when she and Marilyn swithced places, it all made sense. I really enjoyed this book, and I loved the characters. Keep up the good work.
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Summary: I love Binchy's fast talking style
Review: I have read 4 of her previous novels and this one is typical of Binchy's style. Binchy is a great storyteller. You really get to know her characters and they make you feel involved in the story. Although, the book flows a little bit like a soap opera, i love how the reader gets dragged into each of the characters trials and tribulations. I agree with oprah's comments about Gertie. I can't believe she stayed with that no good Jack but I guess that is why I love to read books.
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Summary: Interesting and involved
Review: Tara Road was a great book! It started out slow and then picked up once the characters were more developed. The main character, Ria, is someone that I think women can relate to. I liked the fact that this book involved many characters all with unique situations. By the end of the book, I was rooting for some and wondering what would happen to each of them. This was the first book I read By Maeve Binchy and I will read more of her books. She had good conclusions on all of the open storylines in this book! If you like to read books that aren't too sappy but a mix of love, mystery, and humor, you would like this book.
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Summary: Very enjoyable reading
Review: This was an easy book to read. The writer kept me interested in the story. It is a good book to wind down the day with. Oprah did a good job in suggesting it.
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Summary: Another really good Binchy book!
Review: I read this all at once. I have a habit of doing that with her books. It's not that the book is that overwhelmingly great, it's just that I really enjoy reading Maeve Binchy's stories. A great book to read on the upcoming yukky days.
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Summary: excellent from start to finish
Review: I thought this was an excellent read I couldn't put it down. I was so involved with these people's lives that I thought that I actually knew them. I am a big fan of Meave Binchy and have read all her books. I really liked the Copper Beech and Circle of Friends, although I wasn't too thrilled when they made a movie as it wasn't the same. Let's hope they don't do that to this one. I am waiting patiently for her next book now.
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Summary: This book was well written with a great story!
Review: This was a story of Ria Johnson, a sweet unassuming girl who falls in love with a very ambitious Danny Lynch. Around these two people who lived on a fasionable street in Dublin are Ria's friends and different incidents that happens. However, Danny gets a young girl pregnant and tells Ria that he must leave her. Ria exchanges houses with an American lady and their lives change in very interesting ways.
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Summary: A Delightful Read
Review: Deciding not to order more Oprah book choices, I immediately recanted when I discovered the author was Maeve Binchy. I could totally relate to the story and for that reason enjoyed it immensely and didn't want it to end. As a child, I was shuffled between two homes that were total opposites: one was a revolving door and one was solemnly quiet. I have also seen first hand what a polished, handsome, cheating husband can bring (or take away from) a marriage. And I understood and felt Ria's need to get as far away as possible, while at the same time wanting to have her familiar life back the way it was, with a husband she dearly loved (but didn't really know). Although other reviewers have stated the characters were not highly developed, I'm not sure how they could have been developed more in depth without losing the story that the author was trying to convey. I would highly recommend this book as a delightful read. I'm very glad I purchased it and intend to buy more of Maeve Binchy's books.
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Summary: Needed more editing
Review: I found this book a very easy read, but lacking in continuity. I did not find it plausible that Ria would think that Danny was coming back to her - and her working while on vacation made no sense at all! The forune tellar really had no bearing on the plot. The split between Danny and Ria should have come sooner in the book and spent more time on the reshaping of Ria and her kids lives.
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Summary: Surprised this was picked for the Oprah Book Club
Review: I am very surprised that this book was selected for the Oprah Book Club. The quality of the writing and the character development were not up the standard of the other Oprah books I have read. The writing was very simplistic and the characters were very one-sided and predictable. Many times, I felt like I was reading a grocery store romance novel.
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