Journal Entry 1 by keeta1 from Howick, Auckland Province New Zealand on Tuesday, August 11, 2009

TBR 

Journal Entry 2 by keeta1 from Howick, Auckland Province New Zealand on Wednesday, September 09, 2009

I enjoyed the first half of the book and then found that it seemed to drag a bit after that.
A good story though. 

Journal Entry 3 by JudySlump612 from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Monday, February 08, 2010

I'm doubly excited to get this: my first book from collectorkerri's Virtual Book Box, and my first book from the glamorous, exotic country of New Zealand. It also looks like the type of book I enjoy. Many thanks, Keeta1. I'll try to find a good home for this after I've read it. 

Journal Entry 4 by JudySlump612 from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Friday, March 19, 2010

I've never been good at sustaining long friendships in my life, and the message I'm taking from this book is that it's a harder job than I'd ever imagined. So at least I haven't failed at something dead easy, a somewhat consoling thought.

Like keeta1, I found that it dragged a bit. Nonetheless, a book sent to me all the way from New Zealand is too important to be left casually at a coffee shop where it might never be picked up. So it will go in a Women Authors bookbox where it will be entrusted to other BookCrossers, and we can hope for the fun of continuing journal entries. 

Journal Entry 5 by JudySlump612 at Book Box, Book Box -- Controlled Releases on Friday, March 19, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (3/19/2010 UTC) at Book Box, Book Box -- Controlled Releases

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Added to blackadder75's Women Authors bookbox 

Journal Entry 6 by loriped from Keizer, Oregon USA on Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Selecting from blackadder's All Girls bookbox. The cover captured my interest. 

Journal Entry 7 by loriped at Keizer, Oregon USA on Monday, May 31, 2010

Mailing off to Potok 

Journal Entry 8 by potok-fan at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi Finland on Saturday, August 07, 2010

Thank you Lori for the email reminder about this book. It arrived shortly before we left for our summer travels and got overlooked in my rush to get packed and ready. Sorry about that.

Anyway, it's safely in Finland and waiting to be read. Thanks for sending it! 

Journal Entry 9 by potok-fan at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi Finland on Friday, November 05, 2010

Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever, childhood neighbours bound together in adolescence by a devastating event: the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just sixteen. In the decades that followed - through Liz's marriage and the birth of her children, through Sarabeth's depressions and her volatile love affairs - their relationship has remained a source of continuity and strength ... But when an unforeseen calamity strikes at the heart of Liz's family, all the assumptions - the deepest habits of their friendship - are revealed in a strange new light...

What an engrossing read! And a welcome change from the piles of detective thrillers that seem to accumulate, no matter how much I try to release even the unread ones.

This book didn't help my insecurity complex about not reading other people's emotional cues very well, ha ha, but was, I think, a good reinforcement about advice I keep getting to try to make explicit my own emotions and opinions, and to try to encourage others to do the same. Here's to emotional honesty, and the hope that there's enough love surrounding it to keep it from being too painful.