I'm not sure I understand why this book got so many bad reviews. It seems a lot of people thought the storyline was unrealistic. Well, the way I saw it, ofcourse it's not 100% realistic but it's fiction and I think we read it assuming there would be a happy ending. I found it an easy read, the st...
I wanted to sit on the porch of the Salty Dog cottage on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina with Annie (the wacky mother), Jackie (Annie's daughter who served as an Army nurse in Afghanistan), Buster (Annie's husband who returned after 11 years apart), Steve (the handsome, widowed, doctor who live...
Another delight from Dorothea Benton Frank. I enjoy reading her descriptions of Sullivan's Island and the Lowcountry. Not to mention her descriptions of all the mouthwatering food to be found there. After reading her books, I always feel like I want to go there and see the places she mentions fir...
I enjoyed this book, especially the interaction between the family members. Things fell into place a bit too neatly, but it was still a good read. It doesn't surprise me that Cate was not mourning the suicide of her late husband because I think she had mourned the end of the marriage years ago, w...
I enjoyed this book as I have enjoyed other books by Dorothea benton Frank. There are great characters, a good story, and most of all I love the low-country and the references to places I know. But there were also several things I didn't like about the book. The beginning starts off awkwardly wit...
Theodora is the matriarch of a family that, in her opinion, has grown into a bunch of truculent knuckleheads. They've all come together to South Carolina to celebrate Christmas. But this Christmas looks nothing like the extravagant, homey Christmases Theodora grew up with. What happened to the da...
Dorothea Benton Frank is one of my favorite writers!!! I was visiting a bookstore in Charleston, SC and came upon one of her novels. There was a nice blurb by Pat Conroy (one of my other faves) so I decided to pick it up. That book was, luckily for me, Sullivan's Island which started the journ...
Read this on the plane to California for my mother's Memorial. She died a month ago frommetastatic breast and colon cancer.I'd heard this book was a bi different from Dotty Frank's usual books. Yes and no. A woman of a certain age still runs home to mama and finds her own brand of truth and hones...
Somewhere around page 478 of 583 (mass paperpack edition), I slammed the book shut. Done. I read it. If it were my own book and not the library copy it would have hit the wall flying at 40 miles an hour. This book is snarky and syrupy so I am giving it right back.Dear Dorethea, I recently read...
I give this a book a meh, it was ok, hand wave. The parts I loved: the description of the area, the creek itself, the beach, the lifestyle the characters led, the cute boathouse on the water they lived in. I fell more in love with the idea of this book, I think, than the actual book itself. Wh...
The New York Times bestseller—in paperback for the first time!Set in the steamy, stormy landscape of South Carolina, Sullivan's Island tells the unforgettable story of one woman's courageous journey toward truth.Born and raised on idyllic Sullivan's Island, Susan Hayes navigated through her turbu...
I enjoyed the story. It was well-written with believable, well developed characters. However, I was somewhat disappointed in the book. Having lived in Pawleys Island for ten years, I was really excited to read this book. I had read _Porch Lights_ and could absolutely visualize Sullivan's Island s...
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Her fury was still whirling around the room like hundreds of tiny poltergeists, slamming from wall to wall and floor to ceiling. My throat quivered from the struggle to find words to accurately describe how I felt.“Oh my God, Trip! She’s completely insane!” I knew I was on the border of hysterics...
It wouldn’t do for the chief of police of Charleston to find us twisted up like a couple of undulating pretzels. Just a thought.“What’s the latest with Valerie?” I said, since Ed had not yet arrived, and I felt compelled to ask about her, as I had just experienced a vision of my hips under her hu...
Charlene was brought before the judge. As she made her way toward the bench, head tossed back in defiance, there was a pronounced pump to the swing in her backyard. Every eye was on her bright pink clinging jersey dress, which left little to the imagination. Her black patent leather pumps had thr...
Mike dropped Carrie’s suitcase and tote bag to the floor of the porch and shook hands with Harry and Paul. Those two lovebirds were actually getting married. Suzanne and I hugged them. Even my dog, sensing happiness in the air, got on her hind legs and hopped a few times. ...
“As you should,” he said and added,“and as you always have.” “Right, Dad.” “And as you always will.” “Yes, Daddy, as I always will, unless I want to go to college with America Online and wind up on welfare.” “That’s my Beth! No member of the Hayes family ever accepted public assistance. Do your h...
All the way back to Mount Pleasant we called her every name in the book. The plan was to go to Suzanne’s house after I picked up my car. We weren’t quite ready to call it a day and we decided some adult hydration was definitely in order to soothe our rankled nerves. And we shared a crushing need ...