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Liked It “This was a fun, fluff book about women trying to have it all - family, career they love and friends.” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “I picked up this book because I love good Southern stories, and the title made me giggle. But the book was a pretty big disappointment. For a book based in the south, (Atlanta, Georgia no less) it was lacking the usual southern accent and flair for storytelling. |
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“As a big fan of Southern Chick Lit, I thought this novel fell flat. The title and cover grabbed my attention, but I was a bit disappointed about what was in between. The characters were likeable, one extremely so, however I do not think they were fully developed. The author seemed to fly though the book. I never felt I truly knew the characters completely. The plot was so/so, and it wrapped up too pretty. Overall, it was an ok read. ”
Marisa wrote this review Monday, July 13 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I picked up this book because I love good Southern stories, and the title made me giggle. But the book was a pretty big disappointment. For a book based in the south, (Atlanta, Georgia no less) it was lacking the usual southern accent and flair for storytelling.
Britnark wrote this review Saturday, May 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
One thing that made it decidedly Southern was that God was mentioned on EVERY PAGE at least three times.
Pass this one up and read Between, Georgia instead. ”“This was a fun, fluff book about women trying to have it all - family, career they love and friends.”
Crista Q wrote this review Monday, December 8 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I just read this book (How Dolly Parton Saved My Life: A Novel of the Jelly Jar Sisters by Charlotte Connors) and it was absolute poop.
Frau N wrote this review Sunday, July 27 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The worst part was when one character who's trying to have a baby took a pregnancy test. It was negative. Then she went out to dinner with her husband and decided she'd "seduce him because according to her charting, she was ovulating that day."
Seriously?!? There are so many things wrong with that that I don't even know where to begin. For one thing, if you're o-ing that day, it's probably too late. Make with the baby dance a day or two before, so that the little spermies have time to get there and be waiting for the egg to pop out. Spermies can live for up to seven days; eggs live maybe 48 hours if you're lucky. Better to have the sperm lying in wait for the egg to release, assuming you're really charting properly and really know when you're ovulating.
And if you're o-ing that day according to your charts, why on earth are you taking a pregnancy test?!? If your period is two weeks late, then you're probably not going to ovulate that day and your charts would say so. If your chart is right and you're ovulating that day, then you're not pregnant.
At first I thought I must have mis-read. It must have said somewhere, "and a few days later" or "the next week" or something to signify time passing between a pregnancy test and ovulation, but no. No. This book really said that. Not surprisingly, neither character gets pregnant in the course of this book.
I don't know if this is the sign of a bad author or a worse editor, but I'm gonna be fair and blame both.
This is not to mention that the rest of the book was pretty bad, also. Two of the characters are nearly identical and it was really hard to tell them apart in their stories. There were several inconsistencies (a Caucasian woman was enaged to an African-American man, both living in the deep South, and race was never mentioned as an issue between the couple, which I frankly find hard to believe; the women set up a new business, despite none of them knowing how to run this business; their business goes from no clients to being frenetically busy overnight and yet they're still making no money; it's a catering business and only one woman knows how to cook, so what are the others doing to earn their salaries?) that any decent editor should have fixed. Or, you know, just not published the book in the first place.
I think I'm going to wait til I start my period and then take a pregnancy test. Then I'll be surprised that it's negative and I'll have to cry.
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“Good upbeat story with Christian values.
Lisa C wrote this review Thursday, July 24 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Each chapter is told from a different characters piont of view.
At first this was a little confusing trying to remeber whose "voice" it was.
But they all intertwined nicely (So, Don't let that stop you from reding it.)
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