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331st out of 394 books
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109 voters
Breaking the Ties That Bind
by
Gwynne Forster (Goodreads Author)
Forster--award-winning author of "When the Sun Goes Down" and one of the most compelling voices in women's fiction--explores one young woman's journey toward happiness and redemption.
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
October 1st 2011
by Kensington
(first published September 27th 2011)
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Boy did I want to shake Ginny! This book will really stir up emotions and it's good to give your daughters so they will be grateful for all you do as a good mother.
I was talking to a young man on my job who said, "Grandmothers are in the clubs with their daughters because they thirty something and their daughters are twenty something. Everybody is looking for a man and no one is teaching the children left at home with baby sitters who are practicing how to become mothers at an early age just lik...more
I was talking to a young man on my job who said, "Grandmothers are in the clubs with their daughters because they thirty something and their daughters are twenty something. Everybody is looking for a man and no one is teaching the children left at home with baby sitters who are practicing how to become mothers at an early age just lik...more
Some say that family can be your worst enemy and in Breaking The Ties That Bind by Gwynne Forster readers will find out why. Kendra Richards is an employee at a well-known restaurant and saving money to pay for college. Kendra is pursuing a degree in communications. She has a wonderful relationship with her father but her mother is another story. Kendra wants her mother’s love so much that she makes bad decisions that she knows could hurt her in the long run. One day while at work she runs into...more
Kendra is a 30-something woman, working a dead-end job at a restaurant. She desperately wants a career in communications and has finally scraped together enough money to enroll in college. Her main problem is her mooching mother, Ginny, who does nothing but beg Kendra for money and will go through any means to get it from her. As Kendra's career and relationship dreams start to come true, she wonders if she will ever be able to break free from Ginny or if she will always be holding her back.
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Thanking God that I don't have a mother like Ginny. The main character in the book, Kendra, is trying desperately to get her life back on track after dropping out of college to only end up working at a dead end job. Kendra caught a couple of lucky breaks that put her life on that right track. Kendra's only problem is her mother Ginny. Ginny is a self absorbed person who feels like everyone, especially her daughter owes her everything she needs and wants.
Kendra Richards is a tormented soul with the favor of God upon her life. Like many of us, she has to make some conscientious choices about some people in her life. Those choices will either allow her to flourish, or solidify her demise.
Although there were some typographical and grammatical errors in this book, I highly enjoyed it and do recommend it to lovers of the Christian Fiction genre.
Although there were some typographical and grammatical errors in this book, I highly enjoyed it and do recommend it to lovers of the Christian Fiction genre.
For the most part this book was just okay. I had a hard time getting past the mother, Jenny treating her only daughter so badly and how Jenny felt like her daughter, Kendra owed her something. Jenny was so used to everyone catering to her that she felt like everyone should provide for her, she didn't want to work. It was to much.
This was one of the worst-written actually published books I've come across in a long time. I felt like I was reading somebody's badly put together creative writing class work. What can I say? It was available as an eBook at the library. >.<
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Good story about how the ties a parent can have on you even when they mean you no good but your love for them make it hard to not let them mistreat and misuse you.
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Fiction writing is Gwynne Forster’s second career. She holds bachelors and masters degrees in sociology, a master’s degree in economics/demography and has additional graduate credits in journalism. As a demographer, she is widely published. She is formerly chief of (non-medical) research in fertility and family planning in the Population Division of the United Nations in New York and served for fo...more
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