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The Meryl Streep Movie Club

by Mia March (Goodreads Author)

3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 · rating details · 1,007 ratings · 309 reviews

In the bestselling tradition of The Friday Night Knitting Club and The Jane Austen Book Club, three women find unexpected answers, happiness, and one another, with Meryl Streep movies as their inspiration. Two sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedy are summoned home to their family matriarch’s inn on the coast of Maine for a shocking announcement. Suddenl...more

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Published June 19th 2012 by Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books (first published January 1st 2012)

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Dec 07, 2012 switterbug (Betsey) rated it 2 of 5 stars

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This light read, aimed at women, puffs and fluffs around some substantial issues of love, loss, regret, and redemption, but doesn't succeed in capturing a penetrating authenticity. The three main women characters--Kat, June, and Isabel--suffering from broken hearts or stifled dreams, turn their lives around with astounding speed and success.

While gathered in Boothbay, Maine, to care for the sick and beloved Lolly, they meet men as...more The spoiler is in the comments section, not in the actual review.

This light read, aimed at women, puffs and fluffs around some substantial issues of love, loss, regret, and redemption, but doesn't succeed in capturing a penetrating authenticity. The three main women characters--Kat, June, and Isabel--suffering from broken hearts or stifled dreams, turn their lives around with astounding speed and success.

While gathered in Boothbay, Maine, to care for the sick and beloved Lolly, they meet men as sexy as Clint Eastwood and Pierce Brosnan. Rock-hard abs, crinkly, sexy eyes, and tall, dark, handsome--wow--all three women are courted by flawless men! Even the dying Lolly is swept off her feet.

I chose this book because I am a hardcore Meryl Streep fan, but I am not a devotee of chick-lit, unless it transcends to higher ground, poignant novels such as Bird in Hand, Thorn Birds, and Gone with the Wind, (which can also be enjoyed by men). There's only so much feel-good I can swallow, like candy too sweet for the palate. One story line was left marginally "open," but the novel overall was cloying and telegraphed, with a cookie-cutter wrap-up. All these remarkably wonderful things happened one September to three women, (and a fourth woman, a secondary character). At the center is Lolly, beloved aunt and mother, who is dying of cancer.

Lolly runs an historic inn in Boothbay, Maine, with help from daughter, Kat, who is a superb baker. Fifteen years ago, Kat's father and Lolly's sister and her sister's husband died on New Year's Eve from a drunk driver, when Kat was ten. There's a lot of guilt that Lolly hangs onto regarding that night. Isabel, who was a sixteen-year-old wild child at the time of her parents' death, is also stricken because of her ongoing battles with her mother prior to the car accident. Isabel's sister June was thirteen, known as the "good girl." They moved into the inn with their Aunt Lolly when they were orphaned, and stayed until they went to college.

June got pregnant at 21, after a whirlwind two-day romance with a tall, dark, handsome stranger, right before her senior year at Columbia, and then dropped out. She has been unable to find her now seven-year-old son's father, partly due to his common name, John Smith. She's been working at a bookstore in Portland, owned by--you guessed it--the tall, dark, and handsome Henry, who has always loved her, and is practically a saint with the patience of Job. Henry is closing the Portland bookstore but offers her a managerial position in Boothbay, where she is headed to help care for the inn and her aunt. Henry patiently stands by while June searches for John Smith. It was obvious to me where John Smith was, and the outcome predictable.

Isabel just caught her husband in an affair, and is facing divorce. Things had been going downhill with him since she broke their "pact" and wanted to have a baby. They had met when he helped her in grief counseling after her parents died. Edward also was orphaned from tragedy at a young age, and their bond brought them closer together. However, it was a shock for Isabel to discover that his affair was with a woman who has children. However, while in Boothbay, she meets the man of her dreams--talk, dark, handsome Griffin.

Kat has never left the city of Boothbay, and is on the verge of engagement to her childhood friend, Oliver, who was her rock and touchstone after her father died. They grew up next door to each other, and were best friends since the age of five. Their platonic relationship changed to romance more recently, and Oliver is eager to marry Kat and help her get Kat's Confections, her dream business, off the ground. Oliver is tall, sandy-haired, and handsome. However, the tall, dark, hot, handsome resident at the hospital offers more than a helping hand to Kat.

The novel's center is Lolly, who gathers the three young women back together to the inn while she is undergoing chemotherapy. The three, who weren't very close growing up, forge a strong union and loving tenderness toward each other pretty swiftly. Their mutual support, after all these years and guilt trips, is almost too good to be true, like every plot turn in this book.

The best parts are the Friday Movie Nights, where Lolly and the girls choose a different Meryl Streep movie to watch, analyze, and then parallel to their own lives. Too many coincidences there, how the flicks relate to their own dilemmas, but I did enjoy when they debated and discussed the conflicts and themes of the individual films.

This is unabashed chick-lit, life varnished with a thick coating of beautiful, smart women and bright, Adonis men. Not my cuppa--more a bubble bath read than a beach read. But, there are some reflective moments that demonstrate the author's talent, and it will appeal to enthusiasts of this genre who aren't expecting any surprises.(less)

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Oct 26, 2012 Ingrid Fasquelle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Amateurs de chick-lit, passez votre chemin ! "Dans la Peau de Meryl Streep" n'a rien d'une comédie légère ! Malgré un titre qui laisse présager un divertissement hilarant et des rebondissements cocasses, il s'agit plutôt d'un drame familial. Un roman choral original et très réussi qui s'inspire de l'univers cinématographique de Meryl Streep pour livrer le portrait émouvant de trois jeunes femmes à qui la vie n'a rien épargné. C'est la chronique douce-amère et poignante d'une famille marquée par...more

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Aug 01, 2012 Teri rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: candy, fiction

Received this from Simon and Schuster, looks like a fun quick read.

OK, so NOT a fun beach read. It's quite sad and not light at all. It is a quick read however. I guess I got a bit uppity when reading this one... It was OK, I wouldn't recommend it to my book snob friends looking for great literature but for someone looking for something easy and a little thought provoking I might.

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Feb 19, 2013 Katherine Jones rated it 3 of 5 stars

If this book were a movie, it would be a chick flick, and most chicks would enjoy it. I love the premise, the idea that gathering ’round to watch a good movie can provide a bonding experience. (To read Mia March’s inspiration for the story, click here.) I like that this debut novelist isn’t afraid to begin her story with big problems, portending meaty conflict and satisfying resolution ahead. I also admire her technique, how she starts each chapter with a compelling hook and inhabits her scenes...more

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Feb 19, 2013 Lori McD rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013_read, chick-lit, coming-of-age, contemporary-times, female-bonding, kindle-book, own, romance, social-issues, tear-jerker, tough-read, jammf_2013_challenge, favorites, favorite-author

Wow! It's difficult for me to give a 5 star rating... don't know why. I suppose that, to me, if every book is a 5, then none of them are. But this book... I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.

I *love* Meryl Streep - who doesn't? But "Out of Africa" is my favorite movie of all time - Meryl, the scenery, the music, the bittersweet romance... I liked Meryl Streep before this movie, but I *loved* her afterwards. And I started seeing the movies that she'd made earlier, that I was too young...more

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Oct 18, 2012 DiDi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I enjoyed the plot. I could relate with one character in particular, and appreciated that Ms. March devoted chapters to the varied POVs specifically, so that it was easier to identify which character's story I was following: although sometimes a specific character's dialogue was not identified, which took me out of the story a few times. It was also unfortunate that the men seemed to be "on the shelf" and waited politely for their cues. I enjoyed how she related each main character's story to ev...more

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Jul 09, 2012 Darcy Odden rated it 4 of 5 stars

Fans of "The Friday Night Knitting Club" will enjoy "The Meryl Streep Movie Club" by Mia March.

When Lolly Weller's husband, sister and brother-in-law are killed in a New Year's Eve car accident, Lolly, a Maine innkeeper, becomes responsible not only for her daughter Kat, but also for her nieces, Isabel and June Nash.

Years later, Isabel is married her childhood sweetheart, Edward, with whom she fell in love when he was counseling her about her parents' deaths. June is a single mother and booksto...more

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Jul 06, 2012 Michelle Huntsinger rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was an interesting story about 4 strong women and the bonds they forge while watching Meryl Streep movies.

You meet Kat, a lovely baker in love with the boy next door since she was a child, raised by her mother along with her two cousins after their parents and her father die in a car crash. She knows one thing, she wants to open her own bakey but that's about it.

Isabel-- one of the cousins, whose marriage just fell apart but she's bound and determined to make a new start.

June-- Isabel's bea...more

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Jun 20, 2012 Nancy rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book really surprised me. I like Meryl Streep. I don't love her but I find her acting compelling. But the book is really about four women, reuniting 15 years after a tragic accident, each going their separate ways, and finding meaning in a few of Streep's movies. They are each able to pull deep meaning out of the movies and each take is different and worthwhile.

The author provides some insight in that she has often found meaning in movies and applies life lessons to her own life. She picked...more This book really surprised me. I like Meryl Streep. I don't love her but I find her acting compelling. But the book is really about four women, reuniting 15 years after a tragic accident, each going their separate ways, and finding meaning in a few of Streep's movies. They are each able to pull deep meaning out of the movies and each take is different and worthwhile.

The author provides some insight in that she has often found meaning in movies and applies life lessons to her own life. She picked Meryl Streep and concentrated on movies she has done and wrote them into the book, looking at them from different characters' perspectives.

The characters provide different personalities and depth to the story. This is not as light of a read as I had anticipated. No person is simple and single dimensional. Isabelle discovers her husband has been cheating on her. She also harbors a deep desire to have children, despite a childhood pact they made to never have them. Edward withdraws from her and falls in love with another woman. Isabelle returns to her teenage home of her aunt to lick her wounds. To me, she is the one who changes the most in a logical and beautiful way.

June had a two night stand and found herself pregnant. Now the single mother of a 7 year old son, she embarks on an adventure to find the father of her son. She finds what she is looking for and so much more and not in the way anticipated.

Kat was the least interesting to me. On the other hand, her needs were complex, too. She had the option to stay and marry Oliver, the boy next door and her best friend, or leave to study abroad. Even by the end of the book, there is no clear "right" answer. But the journey of discovering her own heart is a good one.

Lolly is the catalyst that brings them all together. Lolly announces she is terminally ill and the girls rally around her. Lolly is the one that took the sisters, Isabelle and June, in when their parents and Kat's father (Lolly's husband) were killed in an accident. But even Lolly has some of her past to forgive herself of.

Very well written, the story develops naturally and concludes beautifully.(less)

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Jun 03, 2012 Angela Risner rated it 4 of 5 stars

Despite having some heavy subject matter, this book is really a fluffy beach read.

The story centers around Lolly, her daughter Kat, and her nieces Isabel and June. Lolly runs an inn in Maine and she has called her nieces home to share news with them and her daughter, who still lives with her. Each of the women is at a crossroad in her life.

So what does Meryl Streep have to do with it? Lolly is a big fan and she has movie nights at her inn. The movies of Meryl Streep facilitate discussion between...more

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Apr 30, 2012 Kelly Hager rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is told from multiple narrators. Isabel (whose husband has just had an affair), her sister June (single and raising a child on her own) and their cousin Kat (who has just gotten engaged to her perfect boyfriend Oliver and who has almost immediately wondered if she made the right choice) have just moved into the inn that their aunt/mom Lolly runs. Lolly has cancer and the prognosis is not good. Each woman has ample reason to feel unsettled even besides the fact that Lolly will likely die.

Wh...more This is told from multiple narrators. Isabel (whose husband has just had an affair), her sister June (single and raising a child on her own) and their cousin Kat (who has just gotten engaged to her perfect boyfriend Oliver and who has almost immediately wondered if she made the right choice) have just moved into the inn that their aunt/mom Lolly runs. Lolly has cancer and the prognosis is not good. Each woman has ample reason to feel unsettled even besides the fact that Lolly will likely die.

What helps? Lolly's habit of a movie night. The actress of choice during the course of the novel is, of course, Meryl Streep. The movies picked: The Bridges of Madison County, The Devil Wears Prada, Mamma Mia!, Heartburn, Defending Your Life, Kramer vs. Kramer, Postcards From the Edge, It's Complicated and Out of Africa (with Julie and Julia getting an honorable mention). Each movie becomes not only an escape from their lives and problems but also a valuable opportunity to discuss the characters' choices and what they would do.

When I read the synopsis for this book, I knew that I had to read it. I love stories told from multiple perspectives and one that centers around a film club? Yes, please!

Lolly believes (as I do) that movies can take you out of your life for a few hours and those hours can make all the difference. I can't even tell you how many times I've chosen to watch a movie (or read a book) to get out of my own head for a little bit.

I completely loved this book (which, as a warning, is nearly impossible to stop reading, so maybe start it on a Friday afternoon? But be prepared to lose all weekend. And be prepared to want to spend the entire FOLLOWING weekend watching some Meryl Streep movies. (Incidentally---and this is a minor point---but no Doubt? No Silkwood? But I'm hoping that what that REALLY means is that there will be a sequel. Lord knows there are enough Meryl Streep movies for at least two more books!)

I will admit that it was almost impossible for me not to love this book. One of the characters manages in a bookstore and again, it's a movie about women who love movies. (And family members who slowly are able to become friends.) These are all things that completely appeal to me. ;) But I think anyone would love this book. Its themes are relevant to everyone: learning to live without someone, finding what you want in love and life, overcoming things you don't think you can.

Highly recommended. (Five stars is not enough!)
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Jul 14, 2012 Patty rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Meryl Streep Movie Club
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Mia March

My " in a nutshell" summary...

Lolly, Kat, Isabel, June...tragedy brings them together and a tragedy keeps them together and makes them a family.

My thoughts after reading this book...

Lolly...inn owner, mother of Kat, and aunt to Isabel and June calls everyone home. Lolly has news to share that will change everyone's life. Lolly won't tell them what she wants to tell them until after they make popcorn, eat cupcakes and watch a Meryl Streep movie...her favorite...more

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Feb 11, 2013 Kimberly Sullivan rated it 3 of 5 stars

I had read and enjoyed J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine last year , so when I saw an author interview with Mia March about another story exploring the lives of women with strained family relations, all set against the backdrop of Maine, I decided to give it a try. I expected this book to be lighter fare, and it certainly was. This was an extremely quick read. The characters very quickly drew me in I liked the four protagonists’ voices and found their circumstances (mostly) believable. The strains in...more

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Jul 20, 2012 Zarina rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Meryl Streep Movie Club centers around sisters Isabel and June and their cousin Kat and Aunt Lolly. Despite Lolly having brought up all three girls, now adult women, the family has never been very close. But following some devestating news the sisters decide to stay at the historic inn Lolly runs in Boothbay in Maine for a while and during this time they finally start to get to know each other.

Their bond partly grows stronger through their regular film evenings, during which they make their...more

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May 20, 2013 Bethany rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Okay, I had to give this book 5 stars because I kept thinking about it long after I was finished reading it. This is a really cute, quick and easy read...most definitely a chick book! Even if you don't like Meryl Streep (I happen to love her), this is a great book about the importance of good friends and family. All of the characters have problems that the readers can relate (in some way or another) to, making it easy connect with the characters. I love the little life lessons that are tucked aw...more

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Jul 15, 2012 Sharon rated it 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this very much. I am a fan of Meryl Streep movies. I knew what to expect from the jacket cover. I loved the discussions of the movies that I've watched. The plot was more than a little contrived but it was well written and I was moved by their stories. Two sisters returning to the bed and breakfast they were raised after a tragic accident with their parents. Their aunt that raised them asks them to return because she needs to share news of her own. They reunite with their cousin and au...more

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May 20, 2012 Heidi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, read-2012

3.5 stars Two women return to an inn on the coast of Maine, summoned by the aunt who raised them after the tragic deaths of the sister's parents and their uncle. Their cousin, Kat, still lives at the inn. The four relatives were never close when they inhabited the house 15 years prior and an uncomfortable time is ahead for them now. Isabel is hurt and angry after finding her husband half-naked in another woman's house; June is trying to track down the father of her son (at the boy’s request), an...more

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Aug 03, 2012 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars

YAY! I won this giveaway...I can't wait to read it! :)
Gotta love First Reads!

I just finished this book and it was WONDERFUL. Some folks say it was depressing in their reviews, but I disagree - out of tragedy and loss comes love and compassion. A great read that will make you want to travel, bake, and watch Meryl Streep movies! Thanks to Mia March for writing. I do hope for a next book with more of Kat's story.

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Sep 08, 2012 Lynn rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: relationships-relationships-relatio

This one is definitely all about relationships! Quite poignant, yet very uplifting. Probably appreciated by readers not wanting a lot of detail, preferring characterization through actions. The characterization was not as detailed and in-depth as I typically prefer (e.g. Kate Jacobs, Maeve Binchy, etc.), but the story was quite powerful nonetheless! By 3/4 through it was "very good," in my opinion--by the end, excellent! I would recommend it! Especially if you're just curious about or have ever...more

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Jul 22, 2012 Tina Hayes rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: vine

Mia March's "The Meryl Streep Movie Club" is a moving novel about four women who strengthen their family bond as they discover their inner selves. Lolly calls her daughter Kat and the two neices she raised after their parents were killed home to the Three Captains Inn. Kat, Isabel, and June stay with Lolly as she battles cancer. Kat is torn between marrying her childhood sweetheart or starting a relatinship with a handsome doctor. Isabel is divorcing her cheating husband and discovers she enjoys...more

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Jul 05, 2012 Chloe rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The book is the story of the women of one family, each going through their own personal turmoil but being united by the weekly Meryl Streep Movie Club held at their guesthouse. There's family matriarch Lolly, who has her own daughter but took in her nieces when they were children after their parents were killed. The three girls think Lolly's distant and not overly affectionate, but when she summons them all to the guesthouse for a surprise announcement, they are left wondering what it could be....more The book is the story of the women of one family, each going through their own personal turmoil but being united by the weekly Meryl Streep Movie Club held at their guesthouse. There's family matriarch Lolly, who has her own daughter but took in her nieces when they were children after their parents were killed. The three girls think Lolly's distant and not overly affectionate, but when she summons them all to the guesthouse for a surprise announcement, they are left wondering what it could be. Lolly's daughter Kat is running her own cake business but is struggling with her love life and the expectations put on her. Her cousin Isabel, living a comfortable life and married to husband Edward is about to get a shock, one that will make her question everything she thought was true, and welcomes the break at Aunt Lolly's guesthouse. Then there's her sister June, a single mother to son Charlie, and whose heart is still in the past and damaged. Will June be able to find answers to hers (and Charlie's) questions, and will the Meryl Streep movie club make the four women closer again?

What I loved about this book is how much it relies to family to work, and highlights the importance of letting your family take care of you when you really need them. None of the women in the story are especially close at the beginning of the book - sisters Isabel and June don't even speak unless they're at a family occasion, and Lolly and Kat aren't exactly a close mother and daughter. Yet events throughout the book enable the women to let down the boundaries they have built up and finally let the others in to help them, even if they can't be of much use, just for emotional support. I loved each of the female characters in the book, Mia March has written them to be really likeable and I found myself feeling sad along with Isabel and June, frustrated along with Kat and accepting along with Lolly.

My favourite character was certainly Isabel. She's a bit of a snob at the start of the book, someone you can't expect to like but as the book goes on, I really warmed to her and felt sorry for her due to her circumstances. She is really going through a bad time, and I liked her development throughout the book. I really enjoyed reading June's story as well, how well she does as a single mother and her wanting to find Charlie's father - that was an intriguing storyline and it was really fun to read too. Lolly and Kat were also well written characters, and the mother-daughter relationship wasn't at all perfect which I am sure a lot of women will be able to relate to in different ways. The chapters are all written from different perspectives too, all in the third person, but the change allows the reader to get more involved in each of the stories, and I found it really fun to read.

The issues in the book were all written so incredibly well. I don't want to go into any real detail here to avoid spoilers, but I found all the themes weren't easy but were weaved into the book beautifully and were each important for their characters in their own ways. I found the way March used Meryl Streep's movies at exactly the right part of the book to be fantastic, I haven't seen some of the movies but they are each perfect for the time they appear and for the characters to see something in them that helps them too. The whole thing is just beautifully written, from the lovely descriptions of Lolly and Kat's guesthouse, to the small town they live in - it all sounds perfect, and a great cast of likeable characters make it even better. This book will be a keeper on my shelf as I know I'll want to read it again, and this is certainly up there amongst my favourite reads this year, it's fab!(less)

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Mar 24, 2013 Alex rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit

What does it say about me that I will take the most straightforward, even bland, chick-lit over the most award winning, beloved by the young, young adult fiction on offer?

I don't belong to either demographic, so I just don't know.

The Meryl Streep Movie Club is about four semi-estranged women who reunite when the nominal matriarch of the quartet is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. They bond over Meryl Streep movies, which means that large segments of the book are dedicated to them summarising an...more

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Feb 24, 2013 C rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow! I loved this book and couldn't wait to keep reading it to find out what was going to happen, something that hasn't happened to me with a book for a while now! The story centres around four strong women. Matriarch Lolly, her daughter Kat and her two nieces Isabel and June. The four women in the book were so incredibly written. I wasn't sure I was going to like any of them to begin with, indeed they don't seem to like each other to begin with, however I found each of them endearing themselves...more Wow! I loved this book and couldn't wait to keep reading it to find out what was going to happen, something that hasn't happened to me with a book for a while now! The story centres around four strong women. Matriarch Lolly, her daughter Kat and her two nieces Isabel and June. The four women in the book were so incredibly written. I wasn't sure I was going to like any of them to begin with, indeed they don't seem to like each other to begin with, however I found each of them endearing themselves to me, as well as to each other as the book went on.

Sisters Isabel and June find themselves back with their aunt in the guesthouse where they grew up, having lost their parents when they were just teenagers. It seemed that this event int he girls lives pushed them apart rather than drawing them together, so when they find themselves back at the guest house they struggle to talk to one another, but soon learn that they have more in common than they think. I really loved the fact that June was a bookseller, she has a passion for books in the same way that lolly has her passion for Meryl Streep movies.

My favourite character in the book was Kat, the way she coped with what life had to the throw at her by baking and cooking I thought was really lovely. There is a wonderful scene in the book where she goes to learn how to make some Italian pastries, the scene was beautifully written and I found myself loving her character even more as well as feeling decidedly hungry. The level of description by March makes you feel as if you are there by the sea in New England with these women. I wanted to roam the rooms of the guest houses further, browse the book store where jan worked and take walks along the sea front with Isabel. She really brought the words on the page to life!

The Meryl Streep movies are almost like a fifth main character in the book. They are woven into the events of the novel so cleverly and each movie comes in at precisely the right point that one is never left wondering why, indeed, the novel has such a title. The lessons and morals that the movies give out, are exactly what is called for at that point in the story.

This is beautifully written novel, one which was a nice quick read and would be perfect to read on an early summers day imagining the waves crashing into the harbour walls, and guests taking cocktails in the garden of the Three Captains Inn. The author deals with some serious life issues in the book so well that one never feels down when reading it, only filled with joy at the relationships that are being built between these four woman and the ways they are living their lives. A properly engaging, heart warming tale!(less)

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Aug 12, 2012 Christi rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-reads

I received this book from Simon and Schuster the day before we left on vacation. I threw it in my bag and read it one day at the pool.

This book just tries too hard.

Two sloppy details early on bothered me and took me out of the story. Page 94 the dog is eating tulips in the yard. In August. That's just not possible. Day lilies or hydrangeas maybe but not tulips. Then on page 112, Izzy remembers a fight she had with her mother just a few weeks before she died (on New Year's Eve) because Izzy wen...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Sheila DeChantal rated it 4 of 5 stars

One tragic night brings Isabel and June to live with their cousin Kat and aunt Lolly in the family owned Matriatch Inn on the coast of Maine. At that time, Isabel and June could not wait to be old off enough to go out and live on their own, and when that time came, they left.

Now, years later, just as Isabel's marriage is falling apart, and June is in search of a man who disappeared from her life seven years before, the girls are again called to the Matriarch Inn, but this time, because Lolly had...more

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Jul 16, 2012 LaurieH118 rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book is a lovely, light summer read. Three young heroines -- cousins who grew up togetehr in the same seaside inn -- face some of the tougher things life offers us. A loyal if not happy wife finds her husband no longer loves her; a single mother loses her job; a daughter is faced with her mother's illness. They find escape and sometimes even wisdom over popcorn and Meryl Streep at the inn's Friday Movie Nights. I liked that each of the women had a unique voice: Kat couldn't be confused with...more

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Jun 25, 2012 JoyAnne rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a book about two sisters, their cousin and aunt who run The Three Captains Inn. The four are not close and they only see each other a couple times a year except for cousin Kat and her mom, Lolly, who run the Inn.

Lolly is a huge fan of movies and selects different actors and/or themes throughout the year for her friends and guests to enjoy. This is Meryl Streep season. Each movie they see encourages the women to talk about their own problems, most of which are depicted in the movies.

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Mar 30, 2013 Linda rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: from-library

I think first time author, if nothing else first time I've read the author who picks a highly marketable title. Mia March makes it work.

I'd call this book about Lolly the owner of Three Captains Inn who loves Meryl Streep along with her daughter and two orphaned nieces. They all came together in a tragic moment on New Year's Eve. Years later when lives are at a crossroads Lolly calls the grown nieces home to the Inn. June and Isabel have forged their own paths but need the change, Kat is Lolly'...more

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Oct 09, 2012 Abbey Liddle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Three estranged women - two sisters(Isabel & June Nash) and the cousin( Kat Weller) they grew up with after a haunting tragedy find unexpected happiness in the most unexpected way by watching Meryl Streep movies together. It is only when the three are summoned to their family matriarch's inn on the coast of Maine for an important announcement by Lolly Weller(Kat's mother & Isabel's&June's Auntie) that they are able to reconnect through surprising and heartfelt discussions of movies s...more

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Jun 29, 2012 Nathalie rated it 5 of 5 stars

I kindly received this as a prize from a Twitter competition from Book Minx at Simon & Schuster. I was excited to have won it as I had heard so many good things about it, and knew that lots of people were looking forward to it coming out. I absolutely loved it! I read it in a day, because I kept going back to it and reading more, as I was completely drawn in to the characters and their stories.

I loved all the main characters in the book, yes they all had their own issues and flaws, but they...more

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I'm the author of THE MERYL STREEP MOVIE CLUB (June 2012, Simon & Schuster) and FINDING COLIN FIRTH, coming July 2013 (a spin-off of TMSMC). I live on the coast of Maine, the setting of the novels, with my ten-year-old son and our very sweet beagle.

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