Friendship Day Books

Patti Trimble has done a nice job with sharing the feelings of a young person who thinks that they have been forgotten by friends. I, personally, found the title misleading. I was expecting to be able to use this book to teach the days of the week. I will say that it is quite a hook at the beginning and therefore you will not be disappointed, but you will want to keep looking.

Although this was a fast read, it did not hold my attention. The story line and characters were boring and I could not wait to be done with the book.

An easy beach read is what this book appears to be from it's cover. And an easy beach read it is.

This book is just something nice to pick up if your brain is fried from finishing some heavy psychological thriller or biography. There are no frills, no major plot twists, and the story is very simple to follow. The chapters are short and varied, and the story is told in the past and present, through a number of different character's perspectives.

The main 3 characters in the book is group of women on a 'hen week' or a week-long bachelorette party in Turkey. Rachel, the non-confrontational bride, is often in the middle of situations she doesn't want to be in. She spends the holiday feebly trying to battle a group of snippy french women and her soon-to-be mother-in-law.

Yaslyn is a model close to Rachel's age, who is on the brink of being proposed to, but isn't sure she wants to be tied down. Her holiday has her torn between the life she used to live, and the strange changes she is being faced with.

Carrie-Ann is the oldest woman, recently divorced, who spends her trip moping and trying to avoid the attention of some undesirable men.

Thrown into all of this is a million subplots, including a horny tennis instructor, a couple on the brink of separation, and a forlorn chess tutor all trying to sort out their feelings for various people staying at the Turkey resort.

Manby does a good job of keeping the story moving, although the seven sunny days are quite stretched out! This wouldn't be a bad movie really, save for a GLARING oversight by the author on a condition known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. All in all a light, frothy read.

Her two best friends Carrie Ann Murphy and Yaslyn Stimpson take engaged Rachel Buckley on a final fling before she says I do. The trio goes exotic Club Aegee in Bodrin, Turkey seeking males to pamper them for a week. Her buddies make sure that Carrie, a senior manager at Office Angels, is in a festive mood from the start when they slip a vibrator into her luggage only to have customs see it.

At the resort, Rachel realizes her pals have issues. Yaslyn fears commitment though her boyfriend back home wants for them to move to the next level in their relationship. Carrie Ann has just had her divorce legalized and so is down on marriage and men except as disposable boy toys. As the trio shares a room for partying and all night binges the vast chasm on male relationships surface in an ugly manner; Rachel wonders whether adding a husband means subtracting her two best friends.

Much more a relationship drama especially between the three friends than a chick lit tale though the narration is from the latter 101, fans will enjoy the escapades and deep look at the complexities of human interaction. The three females are a delightful fully developed characters and the support cast brings out the best and as often the worst in each of them. Though the subplots can become overwhelming (flow charting will not help) that just emphasizes the baggage people bring to multifaceted interactivities.

Harriet Klausner

While the groom is off with his mates for a stag weekend, three gal pals (bride-to-be Rachel, commitment-phobe supermodel Yaslyn, and newly divorced Carrie Ann) head to the sunny shores of a Turkish resort for a relaxing "hen" week. While there, they run into a motley crew of guests and resort employees, as they attempt to make Rachel's last week of singledom memorable. The resort is full of clichéd characters - the tennis instructor/resort lothario, the clingy nerd, cheerleader tour guides, and lipstick lesbians that like to put on a show.

The opening scene is hysterical - her friends have put something in her luggage which sets off the security. Unfortunately, that is really the only funny scene; the rest of the book just meanders along. While in Turkey, the girls seem to keep getting stuck with another Brit couple - Marcus and Sally, who are on the verge of divorce. Sally is such a pill, that I found it hard to understand why Marcus would want to stay with such a shrew.

Each woman has a problem that needs resolution - Rachel hates confrontation, and the mother-in-law from hell runs all over her. Carrie Ann is trying to lie under the radar, but every inappropriate male seems to have latched onto her, while her only solace is playing chess with brainy Frenchman, Axel. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out Yaslyn's problem, what with all the barfing - despite having a man pining for her back home and ready to make a commitment, she laps up all the male attention she receives, including the tennis instructor, Gilles.

There really was not a lot offered in the book to hold my attention. Perhaps there were too many characters; perhaps none of the "problems" were serious enough to capture my attention... I was pretty disappointed with this after the great cover description. All in all - I think it was a pretty forgettable novel.

Three gal pals (bride-to-be Rachel, commitment-phobe supermodel Yaslyn, and newly divorced Carrie Ann) head to the sunny shores of a Turkish resort for a relaxing "hen" week. While there, they run into a motley crew of guests and resort employees, as they attempt to make Rachel's last week of singledom memorable. The resort is full of clichéd characters - the tennis instructor/resort lothario, the clingy nerd, cheerleader tour guides, and of course lipstick lesbians that like to put on a show.

The opening scene is hysterical - her friends have put something in her luggage which sets off the security. Unfortunately, that is really the only funny scene; the rest of the book just meanders along. While in Turkey, the girls seem to keep getting stuck with another Brit couple - Marcus and Sally, who are on the verge of divorce. Sally is such a pill, that I found it hard to understand why Marcus would want to stay with such a shrew.

Each woman has a problem that needs resolution - Rachel hates confrontation, and the mother-in-law from hell runs all over her. Carrie Ann is trying to lie under the radar, but every inappropriate male seems to have latched onto her, while her only solace is playing chess with brainy Frenchman, Axel. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out Yaslyn's problem, what with all the barfing - despite having a man pining for her back home and ready to make a commitment, she laps up all the male attention she receives, including the tennis instructor, Gilles.

There really was not a lot offered in the book to hold my attention. Perhaps there were too many characters; perhaps none of the "problems" were serious enough to capture your attention... I was pretty disappointed with this after the great cover description. All in all - I think that this was a pretty forgettable novel.

Little Bear is having a bad day. It starts when he gets out of bed and bumps his nose. Then he spills his milk, spills his paints, and loses his kite. He thinks that everything he does goes wrong. His friends remind him that he was still a good friend and it makes them happy to be with him. He decides that they are right. This story shows that no matter what happens you can count on friends and family to cheer you up.

This is just like the tv show. If you have seen that episode the book may bore you.

We have just about every Little Bear book and this one can be dangerous. I love all the others, and we read them often. This one however, we hide. My four yr old has gotten it into her head that if one bad thing happens, she is having a bad day. Th previous review tells you what happens, and how Little Bear is cheared up in the end. But it doesn't work for my daughter. So a little beware for those with kids who like to imitate their favorite characters. If it were not for her reaction to it, I would give it 5 stars, it is a good book that shows that even a bad day can be good because you have friends who love you. My daughter just ignores the last couple of pages though.

Alfred Alverez's "Day of Atonement" is a thankfully short, boring book on how a middle aged couple Joe and Judy deal with the death of their friend, the shady Tommy Apple. Soon, they are headed into a world of covert police maneuvers, and seedy crime operations. Ending not a big surprise, but a big bore nonetheless

I purchased this book for my daughter for Christmas. When we sat down to read the book together, we were disappointed. At the end of the book the two friends cut up a poster of their grandmother's, and try to piece it back together. In the end they lose a piece of the poster and try to fix it with a marker. Both of them are afraid they will get into trouble for this. (Which they should!) But none of the adults notice what has happened, and the two dogs go on and play outside. And the two dogs say they will fix the puzzle and no one will ever notice! My daughter said "That is not the right thing to do!" I was very disappointed and felt I had wasted my money.

I was very confused by this book, it says it's written by Scout Driggs, but there wasn't even a story! Scout Driggs is a master of the writed word, Scout Driggs is a bard among non-bard peoples or animals, an effervescent fizzing soda in a world where there is no soda because it has all gone flat and is now just sugar water. It's the gaseous bubbles that make soda good, so i ask you where is the gas in this Pony Dress-Up Day book? And plus, none of the pictures were colored and I had to color them in myself with my little sister with crayons and markers (but if you use markers don't push hard or else it seeps through to the other side and ruins the next page which is so annoying!) But a book with no story where you have to color the pictures yourself? I was reading about things like this in Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat." Friedman says that in this day and age if you fly on a plane you become your own ticket agent by printing out your ticket and checking in for your flight on-line before you even go to the airport. Effectively you become an employee of the company you're buying from! So when my sister and i had fun coloring in all those pages, we became employees of the publisher, and I think that is weird!
One Star! With a VENGEANCE!