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Summary: Would that we could all be "Angry Housewives"....
Review: I picked up this book mainly because I liked the title, and was looking for something "different" to read. By the second page, I was hooked....by the the end of the prologue, I knew I had made 5 new friends. I can not honestly remember the last time I read a book that made me laugh out loud, cry quietly, and stay up all night reading. I was actually sad to finish it, because I felt like I was saying goodbye to friends, not knowing when or if I would see them again.
I found myself looking around my neighborhood, wondering if it were possible that there were angry housewives out there, just waiting for chance...
I highly recommend this book!
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Summary: excellent book
Review: This is one of the best books i have read in a very long time. I didnt want to put it down yet didnt want to finish it and i cared so much about the ladies in the book and wished they lived on my block. EXCELLENT READ!
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Summary: Real Women Don't Eat Bon Bons
Review: I found this book to be absolutely wonderful. I enjoyed every page of it and wished that I had been blessed with friends like these women. The books they "read" and the way they linked their lives to the book club was just great and these were truly real women - with no time to eat bon bons. I'd recommend this book to everyone who enjoys getting wrapped up in the lives of other women. It was just great.
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Summary: Even a Man Can Like This Book
Review: Ok -- I'm not part of the sisterhood. I'm male and I'm straight and normally guys like me would be put off by a book like this. Yet, I was drawn to it by its goofy title and ended up enjoying the book because of its memorable characters. The short summary of the book is that you follow the lives of four housewives and neighbors who form a book club and meaningful friendships. Along the way, you get a taste of the way the world changed between the 1970's and 1990's and you get to feel as if you know the main characters quite well.What I found amazing is that you even get to like and remember secondary and supporting characters such as husbands and children. Most importantly all of this happens with a lot of humor, some insight and the occasional sappy story that might draw a tear or two. My only fault with the book is that it seemed much more richer at the beginning of the book as the characters first learned more about each other. Later on in the book, the human interaction seems to slow a bit. In fact, the book club even adds a gay male as a member whose role as a confidant is important but seems to distract at times. As a whole I enjoyed it a great deal and found myself laughing out loud more than a few times. I also marveled at how close and important female friendships can be. Some other reviewers have mentioned that there are other books that cover this ground better. While that might be true, I would endorse this book to just about anyone.
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Summary: Oh, please!
Review: This was one of the sorriest things I've read in a long time. The author crammed every cliche of the 20th century into each tiresome, poorly written page. I could almost anticipate the dialogue before reading what a semi-talented 8th grader could have written. The author clearly is capitalizing on the popularity of book clubs, and I would not have read this if it hadn't been my own book club's selection. Please, don't bother reading this fluff.
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Summary: SIGN ME UP FOR THIS BOOK GROUP!!!!
Review: Two years ago, while on vacation at the Jersey shore, I read a great book about the bonding and friendship of a group of women who had been friends for ten years. That book was The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney and it's remained one of my favorites. Since then, I've read many books exploring these same relationships among women and the emotional links that tie us together but had not come upon anything that could measure up to Gaffney's book. I am happy to report that not only have I found something that measures up but I've also found something that might even surpass that book. I think that part of the appeal for me of Angry Housevies is twofold. First of all, the women are part of a book group and the reader gets to go to many of their monthly book group meetings. Secondly, this book spans four decades starting with the 60's and ending with the 90's. Consequently, it's like taking a trip down memory lane as the reader is reminded of the politics, bestsellers, fashions, and mindset of each of these eras in the twentieth century. It's a nostalgic reading experience as they share their cigarettes in the 60's, protest the war in the 70's, conquer homophobia in the 80's and are there for each other in the 90's as some of them go through some very tough times. Landvik introduces us to some wonderful characters....women you can relate to....women who remind you of some of your own friends....women who know HOW to be friends. They're all so very different, yet all so very alike because they're all women who not only want what friendship of other women can offer but need it as well. There's Kari, who wants nothing more than to be a mother; Audrey, the sexiest of the bunch but is she sexy enough for her husband; Faith, mother of twins yet plagued by secrets from her own childhood; Merit, beautiful and shy and the victim of an abusive husband and lastly Slip, the very petite political activist. To say I enjoyed this book would be an understatement. I loved every chapter...every page...every word. Although I've heard many other readers rave about Lorna Landvik in the past, for some reason I had just never picked up one of her books. Why then did I start with Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons? No doubt it was the title...that was the first draw. But the deciding factor for me was the chance to read about an actual book group and think that I could be one of the angry housewives, if only in my fictional world. Of course, eating the bon bons is the "Piece de Resistance" because, let's face it, what's a few calories amongst friends...especially the friends you'll meet in this book.
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Summary: A 'Must Read' for women everywhere!
Review: I've been waiting years for a book that rivaled "The Savings Graces" (by Patricia Gaffney) with the characters and how their lives and their stories are intertwined. This book is finally the one! This is an amazing story of five women who are neighbors in Minneapolis. They become friends and form a book club called Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons. It spans three decades of friendship, marriage, divorce, babies, grown children, secrets, growing up, you name it - it's in there. It flows effortlessly between the different women's perspectives and even provides a new list of books to check out! Each chapter begins with a book and the reason the host chose it for their book club. I found myself thinking of the neighborhood I grew up in, my friends, my Mom's friends, family friends, all of those bonds that form the fabric of our lives. It is a Must Read for any women who have close friendships. I can't wait for my Mom and my best friend to read it - they will both love it.
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Summary: Pass me a bon-bon, please
Review: The title caught me right off, like a hook snagging my skin.
"Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" Gotta love it!
Then I read the jacket cover...A book about women's relationships with other women and they were in a book-club together. There was no turning back now! What do you get when you put five women in the same room, drinking wine, eating decadent chocolate desserts, and discussing "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex but were Afraid to Ask"
You get women to read your book who can relate to them! But don't get me wrong...this book isn't about all fun and eating and reading. It has deep messages about war, domestic abuse, childhood scars and releasing our expectations about how we believe the world is supposed to be. Five women brought together because of their love of books. All uniquely different but very much the same. You'll adore every one of them and sometimes dislike them too and say aloud "That is Me!" Or "I know somebody like her!" But mostly, you'll not want to leave there lives...because you were in the book-club too...sprawed out on the oriental rug, sipping merlot, and eating warm toffee pie. You were there...One of the members of "AHEB"
and Slip, Merit, Kari, Audrey, and Faith were your friends too. Then you'll close the book and probably miss all of them!
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Summary: Like Snow through the Hourglass...
Review: These are the Days of the Lives of some Minneapolis neighborhood Mommas, who form a Bookclub. We first meet them in the present, when they are gathered at Hospital sitting vigil with one of their own (which one? I'm not telling. You'll have to read all the way through ;-) The saga then goes back to The Sixties and slowly wends its way forward with the members of the bookclub, one of whose husbands has jokingly dubbed it "Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons." (AHEB - kind of like that guy chasing The Whale - but that's a different story.) This is Subdued Soap Opera- not the laugh riot of Ms Landvik's earlier "Patty Jane's House of Curl"... Stereotypical catagories abound: the Radical Libber Protestor and Peacenik, the Southern Sorority Sister/cheerleader, the sultry seductress, the Requisite Battered Woman. I had to make myself a chart in the beginning - which woman is which? Who is married to whom? Whose children are whose? But the characters *do* grow on the reader, and they and the bibliography of their Club selections will be fun fodder for Your Bookclub. Reviewed by TundraVision
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Summary: This is a must-read in everyone's library!
Review: If you are a woman and loves to read, this book is for you. If you belong to a bookclub ~~ this book is for you. If you are a mother, daughter, friend, wife, daughter-in-law, sister ~~ this book is for you. This book is about women and their lives ~~ and how they grow up through life's troubled times as well as the joyous times. This book is the best read I've read so far this year ~~ and I hated to put it down. There are five women in this bookclub ~~ Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons ~~ and later, a man joined the bookclub but his story doesn't come in till near the end of the book. The stories of each woman entwined with the others' and you feel you are peeping into their private thoughts as they go about the business of living. There is Slip, the protester. There is Faith with a secret that she keeps hidden so deep that not even her husband knows the real Faith. There is Audrey, preoccupied with sex and how that is affecting everything around her. There is Kari, the good earth-mother with a sadness in her heart that nothing can ever repair. There is Merit, a doctor's wife who doesn't let on that her husband beats her. These are real women ~~ women that you might know ~~ and their stories. You'll read about how they overcome their problems in life ~~ oftentimes with humor, love and lots of good desserts. Yes, the subject about women bonding together is old as time itself ~~ but Lorna creates five memorable characters ~~ and her creations are hilarious in some point of the novel and you feel as if you're growing up with them throughout the book. And you sense the real affection they have for one another. Their day-to-day lives are just as drab as ours are ~~ and just as exciting. She writes without abash about the mom crying that her children have flown the nest and how she thought it was just yesterday that she was feeding them in their high chairs. She writes about feuds between members of the group and how they amended their ways. She makes her characters as real as you and I ~~ and their stories just as interesting as we find our lives to be. This is an excellent book ~~ one that kept me on my toes and took me away for a few hours every evening. This book is so me ~~ I can't wait for my mom to read it as well. The humor throughout this book is true and funny ~~ I can keep on gushing and raving about this book ~~ so I won't. Just buy it or even borrow it ~~ you'll have fun! 3-26-03
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