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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1474397.The_Reading_Group?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Reading Group" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1183988464m/1474397.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1474397.The_Reading_Group?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Reading Group</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/24891.Elizabeth_Noble">Elizabeth Noble</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21784391?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 3 of 5 stars I was interested by the book, because the text on the back side of the cover intrigued me.
 
 The book itself was good, but for me not more than the 3 stars I gave it initially. 
 Somehow, in the course of the story, it became more and more predictable. The daughter of one having an affair with and having the baby of another friend that is unwantedly childless is one. 
 But, if it is a book about LIFE, why does there have to be a happy or good ending to everything in this book? I think that is too constructed, too made up. Things are going wrong in life: one has a divorce, another can't have chilrden, some have a bad relationship with their parents.
 
 That doesn't neccessarily mean that the one who has a divorce finds a new love who accepts her daughter AND the baby, that, by the way she (mother / grandmother) takes care of, since she wants her daughter to have what she couldn't a (good education, going out and have fun with friends and a good start in life because she herself had a baby at a young age. 
 The one who has no children finds her way to Romania, to help the children in a foster home (and meanwhile starting her own reading club there).
 The friend who has a bad relationship with her sister finds out that her sister is actually her niece. Her mother was her aunt, that took her in, when her mother was killed in a car accident. The nieces / sisters are now coming to terms with the past and living happily together. 
 The friend who thought she didn't love her husband anymore drove him out of their house eventually. BUT, when he left, she found out how much she really loved him, wrote him a letter and back he came. They too lived happily everafter.
 
 For me that was way too many happy endings in one book. 
 
 
 
 
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bookshelves: stories-of-life

I was interested by the book, because the text on the back side of the cover intrigued me.

The book itself was good, but for me not more than the 3 stars I gave it initially.
Somehow, in the course of the story, it became more and more predictable. The daughter of one having an affair with and having the baby of another friend that is unwantedly childless is one.
But, if it is a book about LIFE, why does there have to be a happy or good ending to everything in this book? I think that is too constructed, too made up. Things are going wrong in life: one has a divorce, another can't have chilrden, some have a bad relationship with their parents.

That doesn't neccessarily mean that the one who has a divorce finds a new love who accepts her daughter AND the baby, that, by the way she (mother / grandmother) takes care of, since she wants her daughter to have what she couldn't a (good education, going out and have fun with friends and a good start in life because she herself had a ...more

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