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Summary: perfect page-turner
Review: This wonderful book grabbed my attention from page 1. The story involves 5 women who start a book club that spans from the 60's to the present. The book was extremely well written. Each chapter starts with the title of the book that the women will be discussing during their book meeting and the character who's hosting the get-together. Each woman has different things happening in their life including a husband beater, an adopted child, cancer, and many more things. I loved reading about their lives and was sad when the book was over because I felt like I lost 5 friends. Highly recommended!!
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Summary: Wonderful read! Wonderful story!
Review: I want to belong to this book club! In this book you have 4 women who live on the same street and start a book club. You get to know each one deeply and see their lives change through the years. It all takes place from the 4 of them being new mom's with children in the 1960's, to having grown children and grandchildren in the 1990's. This book is a very real, funny and heartwarming story.
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Summary: Good Books, Great Friends, and Life.....
Review: Meet the women of Freesia Court, the angry housewives eating bons bons. There's Audrey, the sexpot, always showing too much cleavage and leg; Merit, the shy, insecure beauty married to a monster; Faith, who spends every day in fear that her hidden past will be exposed; Slip, the self-assured, political firebrand; and Kari, a women widowed too young with a secret of her own. Join these ladies as they take turns hosting each book club meeting, and travel the often rocky road of life, through marriage and divorce, kids and grandkids, triumphs and disappointments, and all the ups and downs that make life such a grand adventure. And through it all they realize that sharing the love and support of good friends make it all the more worthwhile..... Lorna Lankvik's well paced masterpiece is both poignant and uplifting as it follows the lives of these five women from the late sixties, rocky seventies, the drama of the eighties, and into the nineties. Her entertaining prose is crisp and engaging, filled with witty dialogue, and vivid, laugh-out-loud scenes. But it's her brilliant characterizations that really make this novel dazzle, and Ms Landvik brings each book club member, as well as even the most minor player, boldly to life on the page. Angry Housewives Eating Bons Bons is a sensitive, heartwarming story told with great truth, insight, wisdom, humor, and love, that celebrates the warm and deep friendships that keep us all going through the good times and bad. As Faith tells the reader in the opening prologue: "A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years. I didn't take long to come up with an answer. "That's easy. I belong to a book club." Laugh, cry, enjoy!
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Summary: Disappointed Readers
Review: It was a shallow novel about paper doll women who don't exist in the real world, at least our world. This author has obviosly not spent any time researching domestic violence or interracial relationships because none of these characters faced real problems that these issues bring into one's life. We kept waiting for the author to develop a character, and in 400 pages she never did. This proud soccer mom only seemed to be right on in naming the chapters of this book, since our book club was able to salvage some titles of future reads. 'Angry Housewives' ! Where did the title come from? What were they angry about? The author didn't even tell us what happened to Slip. The book was so sugary that the author didn't have the guts to but finality to it. This book only managed to make us angry that we chose this book as this month's selection.
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Summary: You'll identify with at least one of the angry housewives!!
Review: From the prologue until the last word, I was completely taken by this book. Neighbors form a book club and we follow them for decades as their children are born, their marriages either strengthen or fall apart, the children grow up and leave home and at last the departure of one of the group. I have recommended this book to all my friends....young mothers as well as grandmothers.
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Summary: Perfect for reading groups
Review: Five women, neighbors, meet in the early 1960's in Minnesota and form the "Freesia Court Book Club", but that name evolves into "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" from a snide remark of the husband of one of the members. These women share their lives - their marriages, children, politics, and of course their love of reading, over the course of the next thirty-plus years. The characters are an interesting mélange of suburban housewives - Audrey, an independently wealthy woman who doesn't leave home without baring her cleavage; Slip, the politically motivated feminist rebel; Faith, who has a past she'd rather forget; Kari, a slightly older widow who adopts a bi-racial baby; and Merit, the beauty who is married to the beast. Each chapter is written in the voice of the host (not hostess - Slip feels that feminizing nouns is demeaning to women), which begins each chapter, along with the book they are reading - which ranges from Love Story (they hated it) to The Total Woman (they really hated it - or was that me?) to On the Road (loved it) to A Confederacy of Dunces (thought provoking), along with the reason chosen or food served or highlight of the meeting, bringing a varying perspective to everything going on their lives and a nostalgic (for me) look back on the past few decades. This is obviously a book aimed at reading groups, yet it doesn't come off as a commercial attempt at such, but rather a creative and fascinating look at the role of women over the last part of the twentieth century - the books are just an added bonus.
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Summary: I Loved this book!!!!!!!
Review: I got hooked on Angry Housewivees from page 1! I related to the girlfriend intamacy, being there for one another throughout the years. I think this book touched upon very real life issues that we all face throughout our lives.. the trials and tribulations of marriage,divorce, raising kids, aging, illness,career changes and everything else life throws at us.These friends supported each other through thick and thin and as I read the book, I got involved with each and every one of them. I am lucky enough to be part of a group of friends similar to these girls and I called every one of them to read this book. I know they will all enjoy it as much as I did.
I read Saving Graces and loved it, as well as Patty Janes House of Curl but I felt this was the best yet.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: I have read all of Lorna Landvik's books. It all started when I bought "Patty Jane's House of Curl" on a whim, and loved it. I have to say that I still think that one is Landvik's best, all the newer ones have disappointed me to varying degrees. Not that this book was awful or anything, but I never did get very interested in the characters.
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Summary: I was hooked from the first page
Review: This was an excellent well written book about 5 friends. It was very realistic it included many topics relevant to everyday life. Homosexuality, battered wife, terminal illness, infidelity, divorce just to name a few. I have ordered her other 4 books because I want to read all her other books.Read this book you won't be disappointed. Pam
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Summary: Outstanding Novel of Friendship and Its Importance To Women
Review: Good friends and good books---who could ask for anything more? Especially if you happen to throw in lots of good food featuring heavy doses of chocolate----and you have a fascinating neighborhood book club called Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons. Faith is a transplanted Southerner feeling out-of-place in the frozen wasteland of Minnesota when one night a power outage sends her outdoors to meet her neighbors in a snowball fight that will change her life. Years later, when a therapist asks her how she was able to hold things together for so long, she will reply "That's easy. I belong to a book club." For it is on that cold and snowy night that Faith and four of her neighbors conceive of a book club that will bind them for life and see them through their darkest traumas and most joyful events. Readers will be totally engrossed in the lives of these stay-at-home moms: Faith, who hides a past that shames her; Audrey, the proverbial sex kitten who can't hold her husband; Merit, the shy introvert who suffers physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her doctor husband; Slip, the antiwar activist who finds plenty to shout about during the Vietnam era; and Kari, the widowed elder of the group whose life takes on new meaning when an unexpected event gives her the child she has always longed for. From the sixties to the nineties you will follow these women and share their deep friendship, big laughs, and heart-breaking tears. The big bonus for book-lovers is that each chapter features the book title and author being discussed at the monthly meeting. Your interest will be piqued as you rediscover old favorites and may be inspired to read a few you missed along the way.Lorna Landvik has created unforgettable characters, strong women who discover amazing things about themselves as they adapt to changing times and changing lives. I heartily recommend this most enjoyable book and only wish my own neighborhood had a chapter of Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons.
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