Chuck or frances M. reviewed Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship on + 79 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
The first 70 some pages mainly deals with the author's bout with alcoholism and I was bored, bored, bored. Almost quit right there. Plodded on and the illness & death of Catherine was briefly covered and then onto the author's dealing w/grief. I found this book highly overrated. This book was more about the author than her friend and I was glad this was a library copy and I did not waste one of my credits.
A very serious look at the intensity of friendships and the intensity of losing a friend.
McGuffyAnn M. reviewed Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship on + 112 more book reviews
Gail Caldwell has written a beautiful and very heartfelt book of friendship between women. She captures the importance and depth of such a relationship.
Originally, she and Caroline (Knapp) connect through the common bond of their love of dogs. Over the following years Gail and Caroline become the best of friends, experiencing many life situations, serious issues, and remain connected through it all.
There is strength in numbers. When we are young we dont realize the ease with which we have of making friends. School, our neighborhood, church, clubs and functions all offer opportunities to make friends. As we age, we connect through employment, parenting situations, clubs, social scenes, and of course the many technological opportunities. But it is more difficult to find time to make the real, deep, intense connection of true friendship, as we once did.
Lets Take the Long Way Home is a tribute to Gail and Caroline, and a gift to all women and their friendships, highlighting the importance of this female bond and its effect on our lives. This book is meant to be read and shared. I fully recommend that women read and savor this book. Appreciate it, and your women friends. If you are blessed with a special one, let her knownow.
Originally, she and Caroline (Knapp) connect through the common bond of their love of dogs. Over the following years Gail and Caroline become the best of friends, experiencing many life situations, serious issues, and remain connected through it all.
There is strength in numbers. When we are young we dont realize the ease with which we have of making friends. School, our neighborhood, church, clubs and functions all offer opportunities to make friends. As we age, we connect through employment, parenting situations, clubs, social scenes, and of course the many technological opportunities. But it is more difficult to find time to make the real, deep, intense connection of true friendship, as we once did.
Lets Take the Long Way Home is a tribute to Gail and Caroline, and a gift to all women and their friendships, highlighting the importance of this female bond and its effect on our lives. This book is meant to be read and shared. I fully recommend that women read and savor this book. Appreciate it, and your women friends. If you are blessed with a special one, let her knownow.
Kristin D. (kdurham2813) reviewed Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship on + 753 more book reviews
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An honest look at friendships between women - a relationship that should hold just as much value as the one between spouses. My mom always told me that your significant other can not be your only relationship, they can't be everything for you. This book drove that lesson home page after page.
An honest look at friendships between women - a relationship that should hold just as much value as the one between spouses. My mom always told me that your significant other can not be your only relationship, they can't be everything for you. This book drove that lesson home page after page.
Jennifer G. (Impy) -
This is a beautifully written book. Its not just the story of two women and how they found friendship. Its about all friendships between women. From the beginning I found myself wanting to quote passages to various friends, to share the insights found in this book, to marvel at the sisterhood that can be found between strangers. Its also not just a book about how one person loses her friend-- its a book about grief...not how to survive it, but how we're not alone in how we must endure it. The familiarity of her loss, how it mirrored losses in my own life, the way she was able to put into words what I could only feel. This writer is a marvel and the story of her friendship and the loss of it is a gift.
I don't often savor the books I read, returning to re-read portions simply to more fully take in the beauty of the words, but this is a book I took my time with and sat, contemplating, the closed book in my hands, long after I finished.
I don't often savor the books I read, returning to re-read portions simply to more fully take in the beauty of the words, but this is a book I took my time with and sat, contemplating, the closed book in my hands, long after I finished.
five-word review:
intense, personal, real, riveting, sorrowful
intense, personal, real, riveting, sorrowful
Evelyn M. (Foxy1957) - reviewed Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship on + 24 more book reviews
I enjoy reading this book. The writer explained the relationship betweeen two ex-alcholic who find she also develop a theme regarding the grievance process when the youngest died from brain cancer-tumor. These two female there are dogs lover and has a healthy relationship with others.
