Jill said, "Hi, Bonnie: I just finished my second book for this challenge: Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik. This book is set in Minnesota where these lively women meet monthly to talk about books, love and life. Minnesota is featured prominently throughout the book, from snowball fights to big-breasted snow women, which was a welcome delight to this Florida girl sweltering in the oppressive heat! You can check out my blog for my book review if you're interested."The women of Freesia Court have come together at life’s table, fully convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can’t fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together, the foundation of a book group they call AWEB —- Angry Wives Eating Bon Bons —- an unofficial “club” that becomes much more. It becomes a lifeline.
The five women each have a story of their own to tell. There’s Faith, the newcomer, a lonely housewife and mother of twins, a woman who harbors a terrible secret that has condemned her to living a lie; big, beautiful Audrey, the resident sex queen who knows that good posture and an attitude can let you get away with anything; Merit, the shy, quiet doctor’s wife with the face of an angel and the private hell of an abusive husband; Kari, a thoughtful, wise woman with a wonderful laugh as “deep as Santa Claus’s with a cold” who knows the greatest gifts appear after life’s fiercest storms; and finally, Slip, activist, adventurer, social changer, a tiny, spitfire of a woman who looks trouble straight in the eye and challenges it to arm wrestle.
Holding on through forty eventful years -- through the swinging Sixties, the turbulent Seventies, the anything-goes Eighties, the nothing’s-impossible Nineties -—the women take the plunge into the chaos that inevitably comes to those with the temerity to be alive and kicking.
Thanks, Jill. I'll add this book to our list for everyone. Here is Jill's review of Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons of Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, and here's her review of Billy Bathgate, representing New York. (I went back to the NY post to put the link with there, too.) Click on the links to read her reviews.
