Lellas went out and bought the first 3 books of the Newport Ladies Book Club series. We are reading the first two for the months of August and September, Olivia and Daisy. Lella sent me an email to let me know how the books are so far. I think they are a good introduction and review of the books. This is from her email:
"Both Olivia and Daisy have marital and child problems, each from a different direction. Each has a "giving all to their families and nothing to themselves" kind of attitude and you watch them deal with the crises in their lives while they develop nurturing friendships through their book club. It's odd to see them at book club and read the same dialog in each book, with some of it slightly changed in syntax to reflect the thoughts coming from a different person. These 4 authors had to have totally coordinated those parts of the book. There are spiritual issues for each of them, also. Olivia takes her children regularly to an unnamed Protestant Church but her husband doesn't attend. Daisy was raised Very Catholic and has "left the Church" over issues with her mother. Paige is the LDS girl who struggles with the stigma of a Temple marriage that has gone awry. I've only read the teaser to this one. I know that Athena is Greek Orthodox. Her book is yet to come. These books are wonderful, but hard to read because of the high emotional content. You can't put them down and you can't keep from using up a box of Kleenex. And the problems they face are common problems...universal problems that can come into any marriage. Very worth reading, but hard."
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