Elizabeth P. (royaltroondrive) reviewed The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship on + 21 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
The book became very long and drawn out. I finished it only because I thought it would improve.
Lauren G. (noni3927) reviewed The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship on + 16 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
My book club really liked this book although i got bored with it.
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We read this book for our bookclub. It was okay.... I'm not sure why it made the bestsellers list, though. The women involved in the book grew up during my era, so the stories were a flashback to my teenage years.
Greta S. reviewed The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship on + 300 more book reviews
If you were a girl growing up and if you attended the same school all your school days and if you were a treasured member of a group of friends, you will surely be able to relate to this book. Actually, you probably could have WRITTEN this book, adding your own special twists to it, of course!
The story of women and a forty-year friendship, this book is a good one. The photographs are priceless, (very similar to the ones that I have in a scrapbook!) the story is a familiar, but well-loved one.
Check this one out. Think you'll like it!
The story of women and a forty-year friendship, this book is a good one. The photographs are priceless, (very similar to the ones that I have in a scrapbook!) the story is a familiar, but well-loved one.
Check this one out. Think you'll like it!
Mary Beth M. (mess72603) reviewed The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship on
This is a book about 11 women who have shared their lives over the past 40 years. If you are getting this book and expecting chick lit, be forewarned that it is not chick lit! The book is written by Jeffrey Zaslow, and one wonders at times if he truly understands female relationships. What could have been a heartfelt, poignant book reads at times as a list of anecdotes told by a stranger. My book club (A group of women I've known for almost 15 years) read this book, and we agreed that we liked the book more for how it made us consider our own friendships and their evolution more than the actual book itself.
Joanne C. reviewed The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship on + 8 more book reviews
This is an interesting look at one group of friends. I couldn't really identify, so need to be careful about overgeneralizing. However, the book is well organized and the women appealing.
Ann J. (anncj) reviewed The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship on + 4 more book reviews
An interesting idea but not sure I liked the way it was written coming from a male point of view.
Cynthia M. (iritnus) reviewed The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship on + 37 more book reviews
This is an interesting study of women and friendships. It hit close to home because I do not have many close women friends. I've never easily made friends with women. Thinking about it, my mom and her sisters do not have women friends. I read this at the time that the author was killed in a car accident so that was on my mind a lot. As a writer of creative nonfiction, I got as much instruction on craft from this book as I did information.
Christine K. (misschris8888) reviewed The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship on + 3 more book reviews
I enjoyed this book, which reads like a good novel. The author did a credible job tying together the lives of eleven women. For me, the most touching stories were those about Marilyn's family, and the bullying/mean girl time that Sally endured. I thought that there was too much written about Karla and her daughter Christi, and not nearly enough about some of the other Ames girls. At the end, there are some, specifically Karen, about whom we know almost nothing. Overall, this was a good read, and not overly sentimental or candy-coated.
