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Brimming with characters you feel you've known forever, Girls in White Dresses announces a strikingly original new voice, chronicling the struggles and unexpected joys of modern life.
Isabella, Mary and Lauren's friend Kristi is engaged and they are all bridesmaids. Despite being happy for their friend, by the sixth shower they are really sick of celebrating her. Saturday after Saturday they coo over toaster ovens and deep fat fryers. They collect wrapping paper and ribbons, tying them to paper plates. But beneath the toasting and clapping, we see these women struggling amid the celebration. Isabella dreams of quitting her job at a mailing list company, where she's both extremely successful and wildly unhappy. Mary falls deeply in love, realizing too late that her new mother-in-law is really her husband's favorite. And Lauren, single and adrift, finds herself drawn to a man she's pretty sure she hates.
Wry, hilarious, and utterly recognizable, Girls in White Dresses follows these women as they maneuver their way through blind dates and ski vacations, boozy lunches and family holidays, through relationships lost to politics and others found in a pet store.
From the Hardcover edition.
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This was a quick and easy read but being short stories there is very little character development. I can't say that I found any of the stories particularly funny or engaging.
The book was a bit confusing to keep up with. It was not a continuous story line and it jumped and peeked into different character's lives throughout the book. The book is also written in third person which I am not used to since I usually read books in first or second person. I read this book because it was recommended on a "Every 20 something year old should read" list, but I disagree on it.
Girls In White Dresses was a good read. It was written well and with humour. It was a little hard at times to keep track of which character was which because there were so many, however jumping from one character to another did keep the book interesting from start to finish. There was a lot of cursing and drinking and the author seemed to have a dislike of over weight people, both of which I think the book would have been better with out. I enjoyed the book but I think it's one that you will either really love or hate.
this book was a little confusing with all the characters. I felt like I was watching a marathon of sex and the city with new characters in each. it wasn't my favorite book but it entertain and even make me laugh out loud twice.
Girls in White Dresses invoked laughter from start to finish. A great read! wc
I love the way this book delves into each characters lives,you really get to know the characters so well.that being said there are so many characters i had to try to remember which person that they was talking about.A very good read.
I picked up this book because I was looking for something that I could relate to in terms of frustrations over friends getting married and having kids etc.
The summary on the jacket of this book is not accurate and only reflects a small portion of this book. It's very misleading.
I didn't really like this book and upon reflection actually changed my initial three star review to two stars. The characters weren't very well defined and the changing prespective made it hard to keep track of who was who and what was happening. Names were very similar which added to this difficulty.
Story lines were not seen through to their fullest. You'd get really into the story of a characters break up or budding relationship and in the next chapter when the character had switched you'd hear about the storyline you were interested in in passing and it'd be completely different. Like on one page a character would be going through a horrible break up and 10 pages later in a different chapter she was getting married. It was hard to keep track of the timeline.
And then it just ends. Very unsatisfying.
Lauren's relationship with Mark was particularly distressing because she didn't seem thrilled with it at all and then in the final chapter she says they're probably going to get married.
I just did not like this book.
I didn't really like this. When it pest started it was too confusing to see who was the main character. After several chapters, I realized that there isn't one. This is a collection of a number of girls and their lives over a short period of time. It does a lot of flashbacks and the girls are all somehow connected from the past to the present. The story ended with no real ending leaving me staring at the last page
Anyone who has had to go to multiple friends' weddings will appreciate these intertwined stories. The characters' stories in 'Girls in White Dresses' are not as tightly intertwined as Close's second novel 'The Smart One', but it is still an enjoyable read.