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Summary: One of the best!
Review: I read many books,most of which I enjoy and will read again. This book, however, is one of the few that when I had finished it, I started over again, rereading my favorite bits. I finally tore myself away and took it to a friend to read. Then I got on-line to order some for Christmas presents and to check if the author had any more. It is rare that I get this excited about one book in particular. Read it and enjoy.
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Summary: A Good Weekend Read
Review: I read the book over a weekend and enjoyed it very much. I will admit at the end, it left me wanting more. But I realized that if more was added Ms. Hinton's meaning may have been lost. I am one to read books where the main character(s) is much closer to my age. However, I was able to see my grandmother and the ladies of her church in these characters. Not to mention, I got some great recipes.
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Summary: Converted Me!
Review: I started this book a skeptic, but Hinton won me over. (I'm prejudiced against ficton that includes recipes. I don't know why.) But Hinton breathed life into each of her characters and created a real community on the pages. The writing is above average, and the warmth and genuineness are far, far above average. The recipes are pretty good, too. Congratulations on a fine first novel!
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Summary: Heartwarming? No.
Review: I wouldn't call this book heartwarming. Bittersweet, yes. Heartwarming, no. For a variety of reasons I related most to Louise. I've known families torn apart by Alzheimers or Parkensons disease. I enjoyed the book through the first 2/3 and then much like Breath Eyes Memory, the book went on an abrupt tangent mostly for shock value. I don't think either book needed it Finally, the moral of the story doesn't need to be spelled out with the bogus recipe at the end.
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Summary: Good book for summer reading.
Review: In the style of Patricia Gaffney's Saving Graces, Friendship Cake is a real-life novel whose focus is women, the lives they live and the problems they face. Friendship Cake takes 5 disparate church women and throws them together in the course of putting together a church cookbook. But, it's more than recipes that get tested. Friendship, love and trust are put to the test over and over as the ladies learn to accept the others --- and themselves --- for who they are. I didn't know what to expect from this novel, which is written by a pastor in North Carolina and I have to say that I do hope Pastor Hinton has more stories like this tucked away, just waiting to be written. Quite a wonderful book.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: Lynne Hinton does a great job developing believable characters. Their journey through their relationships makes this a truly enjoyable book.
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Summary: Must have summer read!
Review: Lynne Hinton does an excellent job at making you feel like you are there with all of the characters. You feel their pain as you read the story,finding that you can not put the book down.
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Summary: Friendship Cake.....
Review: The four members (Margaret Peele, Louise Fisher, Beatrice Newgarden, and Jessie Jenkins) of the Hope Springs Community Church gather to collect and sort recipes for a cookbook, they also bring their life experiences and hopes and burdens. Five very different women begin to form a bond of friendship after years of casual acquaintances. Each one goes through a personal metamorphosis and self-awakening and become interconnected through a series of life events that forms an unbreakable bond. Each one comes to terms with crisis in their lives and realize they are not superwomen and lean on each other to get through difficult times. This is a quick, simple book that addresses all kinds of issues of loneliness, unplanned teenage pregnancy, cancer, Alzheimer's, lost love, death of a child, faith in God, racism, homosexuality, and various other situations. The author addresses the topics carefully sprinkling humor and Southern Recipes throughout...ending the novel with the recipe for Friendship Cake. It is a quick, easy, and enjoyable read with a positive lesson to carry forward.
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Summary: One of the best!
Review: This book was insulting. It was contrived and fluffy. I want my life back.
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Summary: Friendship Cake
Review: This book was insulting. It was contrived and fluffy. I want my life back.
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