false <![CDATA[Best Friends Forever: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238743142m/6066819.jpg 6066819 8 Some bonds can never be broken... Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they're both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school's scapegoat. Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parents' house in their small hometown of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois, caring for a troubled brother and trying to meet Prince Charming on the Internet. She's just returned from Bad Date #6 when she opens her door to find her long-gone best friend standing there, a terrified look on her face and blood on the sleeve of her coat. "Something horrible has happened," Val tells Addie, "and you're the only one who can help." Best Friends Forever is a grand, hilarious, edge-of-your-seat adventure; a story about betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets. It's about living through tragedy, finding love where you least expect it, and the ties that keep best friends together. 6243154 book 14 7 2009 Best Friends Forever: A Novel total:2526|5:227|4:810|3:1003|2:408|1:78| 2526 8278 5682 685 1 1 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 22:49:57 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 23:05:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 19:52:10 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 19:59:20 -0700 2009 Jennifer Weiner's novels, and this book was no exception. This is the story of two young women who grew up as best friends but lost their friendship and most communication in their later high school years. After a troubled encounter at their high school reunion, they ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 07:23:20 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 07:25:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 true false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 06:38:24 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 07:06:18 -0700 2009
I would characterize Jennifer Weiner's books as women coming of age stories as opposed to the term "...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 03 08:17:02 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 08:18:46 -0700 2009
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I liked Addie Downs from the first moment I met her. She reminds me a little bit of me. Her homebody tendencies, her success at massive weight loss, her devotion to her brother. She is the kind of w...more...]]> 3 4 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 08:19:18 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 09:07:28 -0700 2009
Fast forward to their 15 year HS reunion....more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 07:45:19 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 14:11:03 -0700 2009
Ms. Weiner definitely knows how to pack a plot full of surprises and turns that you didn't see coming. As I read Best Friends Forever, there was constantly several questions in my head. Such as "What happened in high school that hurt Addie ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 27 17:21:01 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 17:32:14 -0700 2009
Now fifteen years later Valerie works as a weathergirl at a local TV station. Addie no longer is fatty Addie and lives alone in her parents house in a small town of Pleasant Ridge, Illinois ...more...]]> 3 1 true true Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 16:08:20 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 16:16:37 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 10:34:26 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 14:12:21 -0700 2009
The book's structure is nothing short of awkward. Weiner tells the story from a few characters' points of vi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 18:26:11 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 15:29:45 -0700 2009
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In spite of being estranged for 10 years after Addie "tattles" to her parents about the goings on at a party senior year, she doe...more...]]> 0 0 false true Sun Oct 04 05:24:22 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 06:09:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 07:19:01 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 17:54:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6066819