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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  I could relate with the main character. She was given a calling that she didn't want and wasn't ready to do but with the help of the lord and a very wise bishop she was able to see the best in everyone even though she had felt slighted in the past by some of the towns women.  It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75015966">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not one of my favorites of his.  Though it has a good message, I found it fairly slow and predictable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a nice example of solid historical inspirational fiction from the Latter-Day Saint faith. Not at all preachy, yet it celebrates the powerful good a woman's charitable organization can accomplish, especially in tough circumstances. I particularly appreciated the emotional growth of the lead c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43537946">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he's joking.  &quot;They'd all vote against me if you put my name up,&quot; she tells him, &quot;and I'd vote with them.&quot;  She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all.  Why would the Lord want her?  Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: &quot;You lost your husband and you didn't give up.  You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't.  I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now.  I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got.&quot;  But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[From experience I do not like LDS genre fiction. So I was not expecting much from this book, but I really admire the person who recommended it for my book club so I gave it a whirl. It's set during the Depression and is about a widowed, hardened woman who is called to be the Relief Society President...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46762671">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he's joking.  &quot;They'd all vote against me if you put my name up,&quot; she tells him, &quot;and I'd vote with them.&quot;  She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all.  Why would the Lord want her?  Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: &quot;You lost your husband and you didn't give up.  You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't.  I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now.  I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got.&quot;  But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am always amazed when a male author really gets into the mind of female characters and understands us like we are.  Dean Hughes does that in this book, which takes place in a small town in Utah during the depths of the Depression (1932).  Leah Sorensen is a proud and prickly farm widow who doesn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76220454">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he's joking.  &quot;They'd all vote against me if you put my name up,&quot; she tells him, &quot;and I'd vote with them.&quot;  She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all.  Why would the Lord want her?  Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: &quot;You lost your husband and you didn't give up.  You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't.  I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now.  I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got.&quot;  But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  It is set in the 1930's.  The &quot;depth of the Depression&quot;, in a small farming community.  The main character Leah is a widow raising two children and running the farm alone for many years.  She has become hardened and bitter especially about the women in town and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20935905">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he's joking.  &quot;They'd all vote against me if you put my name up,&quot; she tells him, &quot;and I'd vote with them.&quot;  She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all.  Why would the Lord want her?  Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: &quot;You lost your husband and you didn't give up.  You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't.  I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now.  I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got.&quot;  But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this story of Leah, a plain drink of water women in the early 1930's who lost her husband at age 32 and was left with 2 young children and a farm to run.  The story starts 10 years later during Spring plowing when her LDS bishop show's up and calls her to be the Relief Society Pres. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22093406">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he's joking.  &quot;They'd all vote against me if you put my name up,&quot; she tells him, &quot;and I'd vote with them.&quot;  She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all.  Why would the Lord want her?  Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: &quot;You lost your husband and you didn't give up.  You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't.  I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now.  I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got.&quot;  But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was serving in a RS Presidency when I reasd this book, and I learned lots of tidbits about serving RS sisters. I like that it is written as a historical novel, but also as a tribute to RS (the author is married to a former counselor in the General RS presidency). It's also about the Great Depressi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45798434">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he's joking.  &quot;They'd all vote against me if you put my name up,&quot; she tells him, &quot;and I'd vote with them.&quot;  She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all.  Why would the Lord want her?  Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: &quot;You lost your husband and you didn't give up.  You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't.  I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now.  I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got.&quot;  But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book didn't captivate me the way some of Dean Hughes' other writing has in the past, but I still enjoyed it.  I especially enjoyed the historical aspects of the story.  This one takes place during the great depression, a period of time that fascinates me.  Some of the things described in the bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55884461">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he's joking.  &quot;They'd all vote against me if you put my name up,&quot; she tells him, &quot;and I'd vote with them.&quot;  She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all.  Why would the Lord want her?  Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: &quot;You lost your husband and you didn't give up.  You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't.  I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now.  I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got.&quot;  But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know I can always count on Dean Hughes to tell good stories and tell them well. This book did not disappoint; all of the characters are vividly drawn and their stories are compelling. My only complaint with it was that I struggled to like the main character, but I believe that detail was intention...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61839684">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he's joking.  &quot;They'd all vote against me if you put my name up,&quot; she tells him, &quot;and I'd vote with them.&quot;  She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all.  Why would the Lord want her?  Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: &quot;You lost your husband and you didn't give up.  You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't.  I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now.  I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got.&quot;  But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think book groups are great in that they make you branch out into genres that you don't usually read, as is the case with this book. It was an okay enough story, but extremely predictable and at times a little too cheesy for my tastes... It did however give me more insight into what people went th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45098658">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he's joking.  &quot;They'd all vote against me if you put my name up,&quot; she tells him, &quot;and I'd vote with them.&quot;  She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all.  Why would the Lord want her?  Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: &quot;You lost your husband and you didn't give up.  You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't.  I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now.  I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got.&quot;  But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love just about everything that Dean Hughes writes.  I love the history and his style.  <br/>This book is about a woman like me...bold and has &quot;foot in mouth disease&quot;.  I can totally relate to her. <br/>The hardships of the depression are real life.  With our current economic situation...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75147392">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When the bishop calls Leah Sorensen to be Relief Society president, her first impulse is to assume he's joking.  &quot;They'd all vote against me if you put my name up,&quot; she tells him, &quot;and I'd vote with them.&quot;  She's prickly and proud, a farm widow who doesn't get along with the town women at all.  Why would the Lord want her?  Because it's 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and, as the bishop tells Leah: &quot;You lost your husband and you didn't give up.  You know how to survive hard times, and some women in our ward don't.  I'm not looking for a nice church lady right now.  I'm looking for someone with some grit, and that's what you've got.&quot;  But will grit be enough when the opposition begins?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I give this book 3 1/2 stars.  This book is an entertaining, quick read about the experiences of a rather unlikely Relief Society president during the Great Depression.  The story is particularly relevant considering the current economic state of our country.  The characters are interesting and lika...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47271327">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this one.  I always love to read historical fiction to give me a feeling of life at different times and the ways people were able to overcome their challenges.  It makes me appreciate what I have now, yet it also makes me wonder if we are missing something of that earlier time when ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68463052">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had read &quot;Before the Dawn&quot; two years ago I don't think it would have made much of an impression on me, but because of the current economic crisis Hughes' story of a struggling group of Relief Society sisters during the Great Depression felt oddly relatable (is that a word?).  I couldn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51590342">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was our bookgroup book for Saptember.  LDS fiction isn't usually my favorite but I was pleasantly suprised by the insight of Dean Hughes.  How could he know so much about women and relationships?  :-)  Being a man and all....  I love historical fiction so I suggest you read this one if you like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72731587">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[We've already discussed how I get too involved in story plotlines.  Maybe reading a book about the depression era in the current economic situation was not the best idea for me.  I start thinking about reusing tin foil, putting patches on my jeans that have a hole in the knee, stuff like that.  Not ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37570856">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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