by Elizabeth Noble
DNF. Thinking about reading this book made me depressed.
★★★★1/2
★★★★1/2
A group of women come together to talk about books and in the meantime find out about live and love, living through children, grandchildren, marriages, love, lust, divorce, childbirth and abortion. The dialogue about the books reflects real bookclub debates. Enjoyable.
I thought the book discussions part felt like a mere plot device to get the women together. Some of the discussions were good, but they were pretty unrelated to the rest of the book. By the end of the book I felt there was too much telling rather than showing. I was also unsatisfied with some of the...
Not as good as I'd hoped, but better than I'd feared - especially after I saw the average rating here.I'd only read 3 of the 12 books the ladies covered in their reading group, but that turned out not to be a problem at all, as the reading group was really more an excuse to meet than the purpose of ...
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