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Review Date: 7/17/2006
Easy to read and follow. Useful information.
Review Date: 7/5/2006
When Clare Mann arrives at Oberlin in 1973, she's never met anyone like Sally Rose. Rich and beautiful, Sally is utterly foreign to a middle-class, Midwestern Protestant like Clare-- and utterly fascinating. The fascination only grows when Sally brings her home to LA to Mr. Rose-- charismatic, charming, and owner of a profitable business shrouded in secrecy--is nearly as compelling a figure to Clare as he is to his own daughter. California seems like paradise after winters in Ohio. And Clare begins to look foward desperately to these visits, to carefree rides in Sally's Kharmann Ghia and lazy poolside days.
As the years pass, Clare becomes a Dr and Sally a lawyer, always remaining roommates at heart, a plane ride or phone call away. Marriages and divorces and births and deaths do not separate them. But secrets might-- for as Clare watches, the Rose family begins to self-destruct before her eyes. And the things she knows are the kinds of things that no one wants to tell a best friend...
As the years pass, Clare becomes a Dr and Sally a lawyer, always remaining roommates at heart, a plane ride or phone call away. Marriages and divorces and births and deaths do not separate them. But secrets might-- for as Clare watches, the Rose family begins to self-destruct before her eyes. And the things she knows are the kinds of things that no one wants to tell a best friend...
Review Date: 7/5/2006
I wasn't a huge fan of this book, but my husband absolutely loved it!
Review Date: 7/5/2006
This book, along with the movie, are great!
Review Date: 10/9/2020
Helpful Score: 1
While I am glad all the short stories are now in one book so you don't have to track them down in other books, there really was only one story that was really needed to help understand a few things in the series. The rest of the short stories were kind of side stories that didn't add or take away anything from the larger series.
Review Date: 8/19/2006
Great book...even better as a movie. Dust cover gone, book in great condition.
Review Date: 2/19/2007
LAYNE MACDONALDS SEARCH FOR THE MOTHER WHO HAD GIVEN HER UP AT BIRTH TOOK HER TO A SPRAWLING NEBRASKA RANCH, WHERE THE WEST WOVE IT'S SPELL AROUND HER. BUT WHEN SHE MET CREED DAWSON, PART OWNER OF THE RANCH, SHE WAS BEWILDERED BY HIS BRUSQUE AND DISTANT MANNER. AS HE TAUGHT HER TO ROPE, CORRAL AND RIDE, LAYNE BEGAN TO SENSE THE SECRET ANGUISH THAT HAD FROZEN HIS HEART....AND REALIZED TO HER SUPRISE, THAT SHE WAS FALLING IN LOVE. ONLY A BRAVE, DETERMINDED WOMAN WOULD EVER REACH THE PASSIONATE MAN BEHIND CREEDS STERN FACADE AND LAYNE VOWED THAT SHE WOULD BE THE ONE.
Review Date: 7/5/2006
This book was really good. I've read it a few times and decided it was time to part ways. It's a quick read.
Review Date: 8/6/2006
Very interesting!
Review Date: 8/28/2020
I read this book for my book club and it got a very high rating of 4.8/5. I, however; wasn't as big a fan. I did some searching of the Dozier school after I read the book and was surprised to find a story very similar to Elwoods... but of a white person. Maybe I had the wrong understanding of the book but it seemed like it was the telling of a wronged black person, because he was black. But... how weird it appears to be based off something that actually happened in real life.. but to a white guy. So was the point about racial injustice or about the schools injustice (for both black and white). In the end... I wasn't a fan. I guess the finding of Jerry Coopers story ruined any positive feelings I had for the book. It just made it confusing.
Review Date: 7/5/2006
This is poetry.
Review Date: 7/5/2006
This book is wonderful!
Review Date: 7/5/2006
Building the communication with your dog. For dog lovers, easy to read and follow.
Review Date: 7/5/2006
Despite having a loving husband, three vivacious daughters, a beautiful home in Massachusetts, and satisfaction in her work, Jo Becker's mind is invaded by a persistnet restlessness. Then, an old roommate reappears to bring back Jo's memories of her early 20's.... Her obsession with that period of her life and with the crime that concluded it eventually estrange Jo from everything she holds dear, causing her to tell lie after lie as she is pulled closer to this man from her past--- and a horrible secret. ---Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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