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Title: sentimental in the extreme
Review: I am reading this book for book club, and would not have chosen it myself otherwise. This concept is SENTIMENTAL in the EXTREME! Now, sentimental is not necessarily a bad thing. I cry at billboards. But I dislike the "we women own all of the emotions of the world" mentality of a novel like this. I find myself kind of ticked off at Annie for dragging us through one tediously overblown scenario after another. In the first third of the book I have already had to read about terminal cancer, suicide, single parenting, and stalking. What joys remain for me to enjoy? Oh, how about throwing cremated ashes around out of an old tennis shoe! The "sisterhood" makes it all worthwhile and do-able? Wine and conversation are a panacea? This COULD be funny, but instead it's just tragic and contrived.
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