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Loading... The Bridge Ladies: A Memoirby Betsy Lerner
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  cyderry | Apr 5, 2022 |    ) Jinjer | Jul 19, 2021 | This is not just a book about bridge but about 50+ years of friendship, mothers and daughters, the author's growing up and her life. She was never very close with her mother and she wrote this book because she wanted to be closer to her mother (or that's how I perceived it). I learned a lot about bridge but would never be able to learn it or play it. It's very complicated and like the author said she wasn't good in math and neither was I but she learned to like it somehow and played it with her mother's group occasionally and took lessons. I liked how not only did she interview the "bridge ladies" but their daughters as well, some who she knew and grew up with and some she just knew by name. I grew to love them as well. I laughed and cried (with laughter and sorrow) throughout the book. Thank you Betsy Lerner for sharing your life with your mother and her love for bridge and her friends who she played with. (  ) sweetbabyjane58 | May 18, 2021 | I read this book for book club. It is not something I would normally pick. There was so much potential for revelations for the author as she learns some of her mother’s history. The hope for some poignant feelings about the ladies was the only reason I kept pushing through to the end. Sadly there was no great confession or a new bond between mother and daughter. None that I could see or felt. Since I was able to finish means the writing still flowed for me but as a story, there was nothing interesting here. I have no interest in the people that are written about and the game bridge sounds even harder than I thought. (  ) lavenderagate | Jun 13, 2019 | As a teenager/twenty something, she felt that they were too old fashioned. She really felt the generational gap between herself and her mother. She also never really knew The Bridge Ladies all that well. Decades later, her mom is in her 80's, Betsy is in her 50's and the ladies still meet for bridge once a week. The same ladies meet, after more than 50 years. Betsy decides that it's time to finally get to know them better. I think there's a part of her that also thought that the better she knew her mom's friends the better she would know her mom and even herself. She has a lot of drama with her mom that she wants to work through. She likes the idea of being closer. She does learn that it can be hard to get her mom's generation to open up and pour out their stories. She becomes more understanding towards her mom, learning that maybe she really was trying her best and that her mom made the best with what she had. It wasn't totally engaging but the story had a good heart. ( ) Mishale1 | Dec 29, 2018 | no reviews | add a review
"A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding. When Roz needs help after surgery, it falls to Betsy to take care of her. She expected a week of tense civility; what she got instead were the Bridge Ladies. Impressed by their loyalty, she saw something her generation lacked. Facebook was great, but it wouldn't deliver a pot roast. Tentatively at first, Betsy becomes a regular at her mother's Monday Bridge club. Through her friendships with the ladies, she is finally able to face years of misunderstandings and family tragedy, the Bridge table becoming the common ground she and Roz never had. By turns darkly funny and deeply moving, The Bridge Ladies is the unforgettable story of a hard-won--but never-too-late--bond between mother and daughter"-- No library descriptions found. |
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It wasn't anything special and I doubt I would have picked it up if I'd known what it was about at the start. (