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| Bed Breakfast A NovelPosted on November 10, 2010.  Penguin IS Pleased to reintroduce readers to "born storyteller" (The Washington Post) and New York Times bestselling author Lois Battle and Her delightful holiday tale of Josie and Her Taternall South Carolina bed and breakfast. After Her best friend's narrow brush with death, Josie RESOLVED That life is too short to let old Grievances Stand in the way of family togetherness. This year, she resolver Her Three grown daughters, the girls she Raised so yet Carefully With Such mixed results-will come home for Christmas. With Her uncanny ear for Southern sensibility and Her sharp-eyed wit, Battle Gives us The Perfect upstairs / downstairs comedy and a portrait of a family in All Its tender, touching, and flawed glory That readers young and old Will cherish.CommentsSharen Siroka says... The book starts out with the mother (who has terrible relationships with her daughters) having lunch with her friends and one of them has a heart attack. So the mother decides she needs to have her daughters home for Christmas to make amends before something happens to her. What else can I say I hated the book. It was very depressing and annoying. I couldn't even finish (which I never do no matter how bad). Everything probably turned out wonderful for the mother and her daughters but I couldn't bring myself to sit though it. To sum it up........I hated all the sisters. If you like a story about bitter selfish miserable people (that just keeps going on and on and on about it) you will love this one. I hate when people give bad reviews but don't recommend something good. So since I'm giving such a bad review I will recommend something. If you are thinking about buying this don't! Buy "The Help" or the Ladybug Farm books by Donna Ball instead they are great! Posted on November 10, 2010 Sharice Amey says... At one time I identified with Josie, the mother, and at another, withLila, one of the daughters. Having reared four children in the south, I cantell you Ms Battle has wonderful, believable characters. I will recommendthis book for the October selection for my book discussion club. Posted on November 11, 2010 Nellie Canez says... There is always the book that you can't discard even when you clean off the shelves to make room for new books.This is one of those books because you will always remember it as a pleasant experience-- you will truly enjoy this one! Posted on November 12, 2010 Deshawn Cartagena says... I found this novel engaging and pleasant to read, in the spirit of other Southern writers such as Anne River Siddons.Ms. Battle's explorations of a troubled mother and her adult daughters, intensified by the anxieties ofthe Christmas holidays, kept me turning the pages at a fast clip.I feel,however, that if Ms. Battle haddeleted some of the characters--even oneof the three daughters--and more fully developed the others, the novelwould have been deeper and more thoughtful. Posted on November 12, 2010 Maura Anguiano says... I thoroughly enjoyed this story! The SC Low Country setting oozed with Southern charm. The characters were interesting, well-drawn, and inspired empathy. I especially like the author's descriptive style of writing, and prolific use of colorful adjectives, allowing me to visualize the details as I was reading it. I also liked how Part Two was presented in flashback, detailing the resolutions of the issues that evolved in Part One. Posted on November 13, 2010 Taina Niederkorn says... Very wonderful writing technique.Lois Battle knows the "true" southern woman.I would highly recommend this book to any woman to read.It will well up all kinds of emotions from your younger days and make you cry.It was really good.Couln't wait for the next chapter. Posted on November 13, 2010 Bonny Soloveichik says... I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did.It's a quick read and got better as I got farther into it.Josie is a captivating heroine.She's had an interesting and sometimes difficult life as a military wife -- her husband reminded me of a Pat Conroy character -- but she hasn't allowed life to beat her down.But my favorite character is Cam, her oldest daughter.I loved their relationship and the way it developed and changed in the book, and I also enjoyed the prickly relationship between Cam and Lila.Battle writes character-driven books about the kinds of people we all know.I'm looking forward to reading more of her work.RECOMMENDED. Posted on November 13, 2010 Kandra Studmire says... Josie Tatternall's husband, Bear, was a career military man.The Tatternalls had three daughters - Camilla, Lila and Evie - but Bear was gone so much, Josie basically raised them by herself.Josiealways longed for some stability, so when Bear retired, she insisted on buying her dream home.When Josie is widowed, she is forced to turn her home into a Bed and Breakfast to make ends meet. Josie is a wonderful hostess, so her business is a success.She has good friends, but her relationship with her grown daughters is strained.Camilla is in New York and hasn't been home in ten years, Lila does touch base from time to time out of a sense of duty and Evie writes a column for the paper that shares all the details of her private life. When the family gets together for Christmas, tensions come to a head.Lila does something she could live to regret, Evie becomes a little too friendly with Lila's father-in-law, and Camilla leaves in a huff because of something Lila does.Will the Tatternalls ever mend fences and learn to get along? Bed and Breakfast by Lois Battle is the story of the dysfunctional Tatternall family.The story is character driven and I wasn't crazy about most of the characters, so the book was just okay for me. Camilla, Lila and Evie seemed so selfish and self-absorbed to me - I just wanted to shake them and tell them to grow up already!Maybe that was the point of the story, but I found it frustrating.Nothing was revealed in the story to justify the way these women acted toward their family - I just didn't get it.Maybe I live in a dream world, but the members of my family don't act like that.There were also quite a few typos in this book, which I found distracting. Posted on November 14, 2010 Chang Wedderspoon says... I bought this book because I like the author (and she comes frommy home town in Australia). This book is reminiscent ( in parts) of Gail Godwin's "A Mother and Two Daughters", though is more superficial andtherefore easier to read.I enjoyed it, but think certain characters werenot developed enough (youngest daughter, boyfriend , granddaughter etc). Onthe whole, an interesting glimpse ata daughter trying to escape theconfines of her cultural heritage and her mother's coming to terms withmortality andattempts at reconciling a fragmented family. Posted on November 15, 2010 Noel Dukeshier says... Too many characters in too short a book leave the reader wishing for more depth -- the book jumps from mother Josie to the two older daughters, Cam and Lila, and never focuses on third daughter Evie at all -- but the storyrings TRUE.As an Army brat (I even spent a good part of the summer of1963 in Beaufort, SC, where the story is set), I can hear the truth inevery line of dialogue between Josie and her war-hero husband, Bear.It'smuch more a story of a military family than it is of a Southern family, forall of the local color, but it's well worth a first, second, or even thirdread. Posted on November 15, 2010 Leave a Comment |
