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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I enjoyed this book and it read quickly for me. The beginning was depressing and a bit hard to get through, but really enjoyed the other two thirds. I think the characters were well developed and I especially liked Sophie's interaction with Crystal, the troubled teen with a penchant for starting fires and "cutting." (  )annarlee | Apr 7, 2009 |   thoroughly enjoyed this light read - great summer book ( )edwina1 | Mar 3, 2009 | This book was pretty much just okay. No, let me rephrase that. I really didn't like it. I wanted to but just couldn't. (  )nannybebette | Mar 2, 2009 | Nice, light reading, which I managed to race through pretty quickly because it kept my interest. Nothing really profound, but it was indeed a nice mixture of the serious side of widowhood, with just the right amount of humor thrown in to keep a good balance. I thought the ending was a little weak, but overall not a bad read. (  )indygo88 | Nov 19, 2008 | I am giving this book four stars only because I found myself wondering throughout why I was reading a book that seemed at times depressing. However, that said, I thought this book ultimately was wonderful. Once into the story, I was unable to put it down. The story of a woman who loses her young husband after only a few short years of marriage, this is as much the story of those who came into her life and made her see that there is a way to carry on by helping others with similar pain or those whose pain is worse. The action in the story was real - Lolly Winston makes you feel as though these could be people you know and the events that surround them can actually happen to them. This easily could have gone to an extreme and become something contrived, but everything that happens in the book is something that might actually happen and possibly has. ( )lemmon48 | Jul 12, 2008 | 0.055 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0446694843, Paperback)Some widows face their loss with denial. Sophie Stanton's reaction is one of pure bafflement. "How can I be a widow?" Sophie asks at the opening of Lolly Winston's sweet debut novel, Good Grief. "I'm only thirty-six. I just got used to the idea of being married." Sophie's young widowhood forces her to do all kinds of crazy things--drive her car through her garage door, for instance. That's on one of the rare occasions when she bothers to get out of bed. The Christmas season especially terrifies her: "I must write a memo to the Minister of Happier Days requesting that the holidays be cancelled this year." But widowhood also forces her to do something very sane. After the death of her computer programmer husband, she reexamines her life as a public relations agent in money-obsessed Silicon Valley. Sophie decides to ease her grief, or at least her loneliness, by moving in with her best friend Ruth in Ashland, Oregon. But it's her difficult relationship with psycho teen punker Crystal, to whom she becomes a Big Sister, that mysteriously brings her at least a few steps out of her grief. Winston allows Sophie life after widowhood: The novel almost indiscernibly turns into a gentle romantic comedy and a quirky portrait of life in an artsy small town. At all stops on her journey from widow to survivor, Sophie is a lively, crabby, delightfully imperfect character. --Claire Dederer(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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