I LOVED this book. It really stood out from the last dozen or so books I have read. I am going to be brave and offer it as a bookray, my very first. Here's the blurb on the back.

Married for twenty years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her terperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a larger and more demanding community in Florida, Dean becomes best friends with Augusta Holderfield, a woman whose good looks and extravagant habits immediately entrance her.

As their friendship evolves, Augusta challenges Dean to break free from her traditional role as the preacher's wife. Just as Dean is questioning everything she has alwys valued, a tragedy occurs, bringing about life changes she could never have imagined.

After typing the blurb, it sounds a bit light and fluffy, but it's not!! A fantastic book. :)

Here is the list so far for The Sunday Wife bookray

Hawkette - Melb, Australia : Read :)
Ozchick - Melb, Australia: Read :)
Minerswifebb - Canada
Bookwormmom2 - Canada: Read :)
Wandeca - Canada: Read :)
Kimberlie - Texas, USA
Tamster33 - San Fran, USA: Currently reading
Booknhand - Cal, USA
djf1968 - Cal, USA
kayters - Georgia
spaceystacey New Jersey
felicia-fairy - Mackay Australia

I will get the book into the post to Hawkette by Tuesday.

Please note: I will make adjustments to the list as needed, to account for geography and to accomodate shipping preferences. Thanks!

Once you're ready to send the book on, please check the list for the next recipient and PM them for their mailing information. And please don't forget to make a journal entry and/or release notes! I'd like to know what everyone thinks of the book, as well as keep track of where it is! Thanks!

Last person on the list will release into the wild!


smiles Snootchy

Has arrived at my door, and has survived our postie's tendency to throw big packages over the fence!

Picked this up last night after finishing another bookray, and read the blurb and thought 'why did I sign up for this? A churchy book??' But then I remembered that it was snootchy's journal entry that promted me.
And I am so glad I did!
I have sped through 80 pages before sleep got the better of me, and am loving it! I have a picture of Kathy Bates as Augusta (maybe too much Six Feet Under viewing for me! But she fits this character for me!), and am hanging to get back to it.
Will no doubt finish over the weekend - I was tempted to bring it to work and read it under my desk, but thought that would be too cheeky!

This book is a bit of an emotional rollercoaster - you laugh along with Dean and Augusta's adventures, are sickened by the prejudices of small town people (please tell me that is small town, and remote, and rare behaviour), cring at treatment of Dean by her husband and the mess her marriage is, and yes, there are even tears. I enjoyed this book alot!

Will pass on to OzChick tonight, in my easiest bookray exchange yet - I get to pass it across the hall!!

After catching this book while stuck in the middle of a HUGE novel that couldn't be put down, am now about to begin this book...heard lots of great things about it, so can't wait!!!

I have just finished this book - Its great!! You go through all emotions reading it - some I expected and others I did not, which I guess is what makes it a great read!!

Might have to hunt out a few more books by Cassandra King now!

Oops!! I forgot to journal last week that I have actually sent the book on!! Minerswifebb in Canada said that her TBR pile was out of control, so this book has gone to Bookwormmom2! Enjoy!

"The Sunday Wife" has arrived and based on the glowing reviews I can hardly wait to start reading.

I loved this book and as I was reading it I found myself cheering for Dean. I despised her ambitious husband Ben, whom I found extremely condescending and judgemental. I was proud of Dean on the occasions she stood up to Ben, and applauded her in her search for herself, an identity which had been lost after all the years of playing the role of the "preachers wife". As I was reading about Dean, it reinforced for me how important it is to live our life, and not try and be what someone else wants or expects us to be.

A rare find . . . Rich and Riveting!

I'm mailing this off to Wandeca today. Enjoy!

Just got the book in today's mail. Thanks Bookwormmom2! It's pretty expensive to send anything across the country, eh?!
I'll start reading "The Sunday Wife" today, and pass it along to the next person in line...

Thanks for sharing, snootchy!

A beautifully written story that had me hooked from the first paragraph. I enjoyed getting to know both Augusta and Dean, how two women from two different backgrounds became best of friends. It made me laugh and cry -- a great combination, IMHO.
Thanks so much for sharing Snootchy!

I'll be mailing the book to the next person, as soon as I get their address.

I received this book a while ago. Sorry I forgot to journal that. I'll read it ASAP and write more later.

I've had this book almost a year and I haven't read it yet. In an effort to declutter and destress my life, I am passing it on to booknhand. I apologize for keeping it so long.

If I ever get to read it through other means I'll come back and post my thoughts. Thanks for the opportunity. I just wish I had more time for reading :)

This book arrived at the beginning of the month and I read it rather quickly.

I was infuriated with Dean's passivity in the beginning of the book. She was her minister's puppet wife and although I do not disagree with the need to support your spouse (in this case the husband), but not at the expense of one's identity as Dean did.

I almost didn't continue reading it, but then after the last paragraph (I trick I do when I begin to loose interest in a book), I was intrigued to figure out how the story progressed to get to the ending, so I kept reading. It was a very interesting process and a great reminder we need to do what feels right for us as individuals and that even when someone disagrees with a person's choice on how to fulfill thier individual role, as long as the individual is satisfying a personal need and is content that is all that matters.

Dean learns some lessons and through those lessons, I also learned some of my own.

It will be off to djf1968 as soon as I get an address.

RELEASE NOTES:

sent off to the next BCer on the list - sorry it stayed with me for so long - life has been hectic and BC went on back burner!!!

This arrived in my mailbox recently and it's next in my queue 'to be read'. Thanks to all ahead of me for sharing!