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    <body><![CDATA[I recieved this book as an advanced copy when I worked as a Bookseller and I just got around to reading it. It was not very engaging of a book and really just to damn fatalistic for me. I would never have purchased this book, and only picked it up b/c I am trying to thin out my library. If you like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4990180">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for two reasons: 1) I was looking at another book in the library, and Henry, who was in his stroller, pulled this off the shelf and handed it to me; 2) When I took it from him, my instinct was to put it back on the shelf, but then I remembered that King is Pat Conroy's wife.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1271126">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this when I was a junior in high school in my moms beach bag, read it, and LOVED it. So did all of her friends, all older than me by at least 25 years. <br/>It is about a preacher's wife with a unique style of her own. She has a more liberal lifestyle than the people in her community, congr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2700808">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Essentially a story about a woman who struggles with her identity as a preacher's wife, and the choices she makes as she attempts to rebel from her life/husband. I thought that this would be an interesting book, however I soon became tired of the main character's passive behavior.  To be rather blun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32465087">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good for a fist novel...I didn't know she was Pat Conroy's wife until I was halfway through and read the back cover.  <br/><br/>Dean is a Methodist minister's wife and lives in Florida.  The husband is condescending and always puts her down because of her background (she's a foster child). ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20972157">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My maiden dip into the writings of a local author, and wife of Pat Conroy. It is of that genre that seems to be occupied by writers like Dorthea Benton Frank and Sue Monk Kidd-- not chick lit, but definitely probably more appealing to females than males. (mr czuk would call it chick lit though, for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41634228">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just picked this book up one day while browsing the book store. Did not realize it was written by Pat Conroy's wife and I did not read the back section first. So I had no pre-conceived ideas. I thought the book was entertaining, funny at times and also revealed the relationship between two women so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27478211">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished reading this book. It was good, though a little long. It was funny, sad, and poignant all at the same time. Once again, I didn't like the way &quot;church people&quot; were portrayed. I have maet people like this, but most of the people I know at different churches are the exact opposi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25541857">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book and author ticked me off. It's apparant King hates the church and all that it stands for and for that, I almost couldn't finish the book. I only did because I really wanted to know what ended up happening to the ministers wife. I really don't recommend this book to anyone.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The novel is set in the South I know, and I'm pretty sure I've met these characters over the years.  I always knew Methodists were the thinkers.  I absolutely loved this book, though I was hesitant to patronize Stephen King's wife.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[THis was at the top of my list until I read My Sister's Keeper.  I really loved it and would recommend it to anyone.  It takes place on the Gulf Coast.  The author is married to Pat Conroy who wrote Prince of Tides and Beach Music.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite thing about this book was that even the best of friends didn't know everything about each other. I, too, was concerned about pigeon-holing the religious, but it was specific to certain people, not generalized.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was about something it wasn't really about.  I couldn't get into the story and the characters really had no point to me.  I didn't even get 50 pages in before i just had to put it down.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This could be good - a story about an unlikely friendship between two women, and hopefully the story of how one woman finds herself.  On the other hand, it could suck.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is written by Pat Conroy's wife, Cassandra King.  It is about a young preacher's wife who breaks free of his patriarichal ways.  It's a great read.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[arried for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a larger and more demanding community in the Florida panhandle, Dean becomes fast friends with Augusta Holderfield, a woman whose good looks and extravagant habits immediately entrance her. As their friendship evolves, Augusta challenges Dean to break free from her traditional role as the preacher's wife. Just as Dean is questioning everything she has always valued, a tragedy occurs, providing the catalyst for change in ways she never could have imagined.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this in hard back summer of 03 wonderful refreshing story regarding a preachers wife. Some shocking details that one would not expect from the Sunday wife.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[arried for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a larger and more demanding community in the Florida panhandle, Dean becomes fast friends with Augusta Holderfield, a woman whose good looks and extravagant habits immediately entrance her. As their friendship evolves, Augusta challenges Dean to break free from her traditional role as the preacher's wife. Just as Dean is questioning everything she has always valued, a tragedy occurs, providing the catalyst for change in ways she never could have imagined.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I took this along to the beach really looking forward to a Southern tale by Pat Conroy's wife. It turned into a liberal bashing of all stereotypical conservatism both in the church and elsewhere. It was predictable in its portrayal of the church as the bad guy that makes what are portrayed as unfeel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40052218">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave it an extra star because she was singing my life (badly) with her song.  If you were never an up-and-coming minister's wife, don't bother.  Painful and plentiful dialogue, not a nuance in a carload.  Every thought, stubbed toe, angry look is spelled out with articles and pronouns.  Written li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74272215">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was good enough to read through once I had started it.  But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.  I picked it up because I wanted to relatively quick brainless read, and it worked for that.  The writing was fine, but I didn't respond to any of the characters, they were pretty one-dimensional...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74195241">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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