Something Blue

Something Blue
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Even better than the first!

Ok, so I liked it.

Absolutely WoNdErFuL!!!

Very Good Follow- Up

read after you read Something Borrowed

Something Blue
Emily Giffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312323867
Release Date: 2006-03-21

Book Description

From the New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin comes a novel that shows how someone with a 'perfect life' can lose it all-and then find everything. Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules.Never mind karma. But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel White, the plain-Jane 'good girl,' steals her fianc, while Darcy finds herself completely alone for the first time in her life...with a baby on the way. Darcy tries to recover, fleeing to her childhood friend living in London and resorting to her tried-and-true methods for getting what she wants. But as she attempts to recreate her glamorous life on a new continent, Darcy finds that her rules no longer apply. It is only then that Darcy can begin her journey toward self-awareness, forgiveness, and motherhood. Something Blue is a novel about one woman's surprising discoveries about the true meaning of friendship, love, and happily-ever-after. It's a novel for anyone who has ever, even secretly, wondered if the last thing you want is really the one thing you need.

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Even better than the first!.......2007-10-06

I loved this story told by Darcy this time around. Her character is one you love to hate but eventually grow to love. I laughed and cried throughout the story and even found a way to relate to the character despite living in rural New Jersey with two kids. I truly loved this story and was unable to put this book down until it was read from cover to cover.

Ok, so I liked it........2007-10-04

I enjoyed this story as much as 'Borrowed', as both books are page-turners; however, they are page-turners in different ways. During 'Borrowed', your mouth is usually agape due to the shock of what's unfolding...during `Blue', you get to watch Darcy Rhone's transformation. Some reviewers' say it's not believable for Darcy to change `just like that', but what I got was that this person she became is really who she was all along, it just took her some time to become okay with knowing and understanding who she really was. At any rate, I do highly recommend both books. You should definitely read `Borrowed' first, as you really won't fully appreciate `Blue' not having done so.

Absolutely WoNdErFuL!!!.......2007-10-01

I've decided that this is my favorite book of all time....okay, that is after I read it's prequel, "Something Borrowed"....

Both books are fantastic. Easy to read, easy to relate to. Not too descriptive, where some books outshine the characters and go on and on about the colors and smells... it's hilarious, but you could totally see yourself being one of the characters, if not a few of them. Personally, I related well with Rachel and had total disdain for Darcy. After I got to chapter 21 in "Something Blue", I knew I found my new best friend, Darcy to be very uplifting and real.

Giffin's natural writing style made it so easy to flip page after page and I found myself calling my girlfriends begging them to buy all 3 books so they could relate as well. I am very impressed, and now find myself impatiently awaiting the arrival of her fourth book this coming year.

Very Good Follow- Up.......2007-10-01

I really enjoyed this book alot more than I thought I would. I picked up the first installation "Something Borrowed" while being delayed at the airport. I enjoyed that book so much that I thought I might like this one. Which I have to say is pretty good. It basically is a continuation of the first one and a different viewpoint on what occured in the first book. The story of 2 friends who are as different as 1 can imagine but find themselves in a love triangle with the same man. "Something Blue" is the story of what follows. I would recommend both books to anyone who likes books about friendship and love.

read after you read Something Borrowed.......2007-09-23

These books are a great combo. You learn to hate Darcy in Borrowed and it takes a while to like her in Blue. But you do start to like her. I couldn't put it down. It was great to get to read the 2 different viewpoints. Emily Giffin is a terrific novelist.

Beany Malone Series - 14 Book Set (Beany Malone)

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AMAZING SERIES!! IS A MUST READ!

Beany Malone Series - 14 Book Set (Beany Malone)

Manufacturer: Image Cascade Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The 14 Book Beany Malone Set includes: Meet the Malones; Beany Malone; Leave It to Beany; Beany and the Beckoning Road; Beany Has a Secret Life; Make a Wish for Me; Happy Birthday, Dear Beany; The More the Merrier; A Bright Star Falls; Welcome Stranger; Pick a New Dream; Tarry Awhile; Something Borrowed, Something Blue; Come Back, Wherever You Are. The Malones of Denver, Colorado are a warm open-hearted family with a welcoming home, open to friends and all others in need of physical and emotional nourishment. The series has the warmth and sense of solidarity intrinsic of wartimes and the post-war era. There is a general feeling of peace and simplicity. When the series opens, the Malone children are motherless, as Mary Malone has been dead for three years. The father, Martie Malone, is often absent due to his duties as editor of the Denver Call. Three of the four Malone children, Mary Fred, Johnny and Beany, live at home. The oldest Malone daughter, the beautiful, loving Elizabeth, has been married to Lieutenant Donald McCallin for one year. The Malones live on Barberry Street in a large, wide-bosomed gray stone home. Their surrounding neighbors are Mrs. Morrison Adams (known as Mrs. Socially-prominent Adams) in her red brick home with immaculate white trim and frilly curtains in the windows, and the imposing and stately home of the Judge Buell family.

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AMAZING SERIES!! IS A MUST READ!.......2006-06-24

I got the entire series this past Christmas. I had read the first 2 because although my library had more, they didn't have all of them, and they didn't have the 3rd and I don't like to read things out of order so I was really sad. So then I was soo happy to find out they were being republished by Image Cascading!!!

So yea I read them all and they all rock!!! It's nice seeing what teenagers did back in the 50's. And it was also nice how different people's relationships were with their family's, I wish it were more like that today. And they are also way more responsible and mature then we are now. Making their own money, not having to depend on their parents for everything. And their parents respect and trust them more too! And they definatly treat their parents with much respect which is ALOT more then I can say about kids of today.

The first book is about Beany's older sister, Mary Fred. It is in MF's junior year of highschool, when Beany is in 8th grade. The rest of the books are all about Beany, in highschool, college, and then when she gets married. And let me just say I LOVE who she ends up with. They are SOOO cute!!!

Everyone should read these books they are amazing and are definatly one of my favorite books ever!

Something Chocolate This Way Comes: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Scrapbook #21)

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Something Chocolate This Way Comes: A Baby Blues Collection
Keeping up with the kids
Something Chocolate This Way Comes: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Scrapbook #21)
Wow
Something Chocolate This Way Comes Review

Something Chocolate This Way Comes: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Scrapbook #21)
Jerry Scott , and Rick Kirkman
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0740756869

Book Description

If art imitates life, then art could probably use a good vacuuming. That is, if you're talking about life around the MacPherson house. With three kids under the age of eight, things couldn't get much busier for Darryl and Wanda, who have been saturating the comics pages with dead-on family humor for a decade and a half.

Creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott have a special talent for distilling the essence of children, families, and married couples into a comic strip that, in frame after frame and strip after strip, creates a world that's both amusing and enlightening, in large part because their work mirrors our own experiences so closely. "Did you see the latest Baby Blues?" is one of the most-often asked questions among the strip's daily following of 40 million fans. "It looks just like us!"

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Something Chocolate This Way Comes: A Baby Blues Collection.......2007-01-15

Great reading! Good for parents who have very small amounts of personal space! Be prepared for lots of laughter coming from the closed bathroom door!

Keeping up with the kids.......2007-01-10

This was a great collection of strips. You can see the natural and humorous growth of Zoe, Hammie and baby Wren, who keep Wanda and Darryl constanstly on their toes and in the grocery store. I have always loved Baby Blues and will be sad to see them "grow up"....like the kids in For Better Or For Worse. That's when you know a strip is darn great...when you think of the characters as real and you can really relate to their daily "lives". Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!

Something Chocolate This Way Comes: A Baby Blues Collection (Baby Blues Scrapbook #21).......2006-08-06

I bought this book for my wife, because she loves chocolate and we have raised two kids. It is a very funny book. It should be read while eating chocolate too.
Gordon H.

Wow.......2006-07-12

I can't believe the longevity of this strip and how it has stayed consistantly funny. When it first came out I found it really amusing as it dealt with the pitfalls of being a parent with a baby/children. Now all these years later, they are on their third child and the jokes are fresh and still very amusing. Baby Blues is an excellent series for the young and older fans.

Something Chocolate This Way Comes Review.......2006-06-29

I loved this new Baby Blues collection. It simply had me in tears. I liked it when Wren bumped her chin, the Hammie got greenstick fracture, then Zoe got bruised knuckles, and Darryl sprang his ankle. It was a hilarious Baby Blues story. I recommend this collection to anyone who wants to laugh.

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Blue can be beautiful too
Women that make bad choices, odd choices . . .
Read this book

Something Blue
Ann Hood
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0553071408
Release Date: 1991-01-01

Customer Reviews:

Blue can be beautiful too.......2007-04-29

I have first discovered Ann Hood through her newest book; "The Knitting Circle" and immediately fell in love with her ease of creating a written world that beckoned me to come back to it. After having such a good experience with her work I decided to hunt down her older books to see her evolution as a writer and to read all that she has to offer. I must say that "Something Blue" was not a disappointment and I have so far purchased three more of her books and am eagerly awaiting their arrival.

Ann Hood writes about women. She creates mothers, sisters, wives, friends and girlfriends who think things I have thought, who have the same questions and dilemmas and most of all, women who never give up. Through the trails and tribulations of their careers and relationships I feel the ocean wide world of wisdom passing through my mind, creating scenarios and giving me answers, making me think of what choices I would pick if I was in those situations. She is clearly an author with many things to say, crating books that beg to be read until the sky turns dark and then red and yellow as the sun comes back up, making me want to read until the book has no more words left and the back cover softly closes on her latest adventure.

"Something Blue" is not a cookie cutter story about girls who want a boyfriend and eternal happiness that is delivered thorough shopping and gossiping. It is a story about three childhood friends whose paths cross around their thirtieth year of celebrating womanhood. The all end up in NYC for various reasons, making the reader feel like a New Yorker without having to actually experience it every day. I have the pleasure of living her since I was twelve but these girls have not and it was very nteresting to see their adjustments and struggles to make it in love and in the career world of the city that truly never sleeps.

Lucy is a children's book illustrator waiting to be discovered in the art world, tired of having to work odd jobs such as her Whirlwind Weekend getaways that take tourists to European destination such as London, Rome, Paris or Milan one weekend at a time. Her only comfort is coming back home to the smell of Turkey roasting in the oven with Grand Mariner stuffing made by her dancer turned bartender boyfriend Jasper. She is very close to her childhood friend Julia, a woman who is an aspiring actress who can never land a role and who lives in other people's apartments when they go away for long period of times. She also loves to lie about where she's from, changing her whole life history on a whim as she picks up exotic men whom she will stop seeing after she gets all that she wants form them under the sheets. She is so good at discarding and moving that the trail of lies she leaves behind is starting to catch up to her, making her feel empty on the inside. Being best friends and close neighbors their relationship is intruded by Katherine, a bride to be who runs away from her Connecticut home the morning of her wedding and who decides to show up at her old school friend's apartment. The door she comes to is Lucy's and the friend is anything but thrilled to have someone form he past appears so abruptly.

All these women have conflicts not only with each other and where they stand in time but with their mothers, boyfriends, ex fiancées and coworkers. At the beginning of the book the reader can feel a big storm brewing. Lucy is disappointed how Jasper gives up on his dancing, failing auditions, feeling like the fires of his passions are dying out with him, she starts to feel herself change, not knowing whether her security in her relationship is because she loves him or because she's rather stay with him than be alone. Julia's life is rich with made up stories about her Italian mother and how she is an Opera singer, wooing men whom she meets at bars and places she knows will never tie her to them permanently. When one day she meets a handsome delivery man, she starts to wonder if her pattern of deceit will embrace him or whether she will have to admit her hear is going to have to force her to tell the truth to him, her friends and most of all to herself. And last but not least is the story of Katherine, probably my favorite, as she escapes a relationship that was boring and suffocating her, to a total life change of dating men other than her one and only lover Andy, to see for herself what she has been missing out on. The novel takes a year to cycle thought their period of being together and shows growth and inspiration, while their hearts and minds are stuck on the past arguments and trying to fit in, lingering on the pretend world of being happy that was more blue than pink.

This book was magnificent with so much more happening, surprising considering how long this review came out, but I promise there are so many things going on that the reader never gets bored and feel like they are reading a mystery that has a fantastic and quite frankly some very surprising ending. Some things come full circle but others are changed forever, feelings un-caged and left free and no longer sad and blue.

- Kasia S.

Women that make bad choices, odd choices . . ........2004-01-25

This book was okay, a prety decent read. However, I had a hard time idenitfying with any of the three main female characters and most of the choices that they made. They seemed to kind of drift along in some cases and in others make totally bad choices and then later regret them or still not be happy with them. The motivations of many of the characters were fuzzy and not well defined.

Read this book.......2003-10-12

This was undoubtedly one of the most indulging books I've ever read. I could not stop thinking about the characters, how right or wrong they were. Hood pulls the reader into the lives of the three main characters, makes you CARE what happens to them. While there is not a lot of action there is a lot of emotion and thought put into the lives of these women and the day to day situations, relationships and faulty personality traits they exhibit. I just kept thinking about HBO's "Sex and the City" and the characters therein...this book shares the same type of personality with that show. This is a very good read.

With This Ring: Something Old/Something New/Something Borrowed/Something Blue (HeartQuest Anthology)

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Three good stories, one awful one
Four delightful historical wedding stories

With This Ring: Something Old/Something New/Something Borrowed/Something Blue (HeartQuest Anthology)
Lori Copeland , Dianna Crawford , Ginny Aiken , and Catherine Palmer
Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0842378227

Book Description

Value priced!

Lori Copeland, Dianna Crawford, Ginny Aiken, and Catherine Palmer

Four Victorian-era wedding novellas comprise this romance anthology. Each ends with a wedding feature of a different culture.

Customer Reviews:

Three good stories, one awful one.......2001-02-15

Dianna Crawford's,"Something New", was terrible. I was offended by the tone of the story that a Jewish couple easily discarded centuries of Judaism, in favor of Christianity. If Jews at fire and knifepoint throughout the centuries have not converted enmasse, it is not plausible to believe Rachel and David would convert so easily in 1895. Today there are very few Rabbi's that would marry a non-Jew and a Jew. It would never have happened in 1895! I know that Christians believe in trying to convert people from other faiths, but I felt angry with this story. The other three stories were fine, and the co-worker who loaned me this book was surprised at my reaction. Oh well.....

Four delightful historical wedding stories.......1999-04-11

Tying these four wedding stories together is the old bridal saying: "Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue..." I especially enjoyed Dianna Crawford's story about a young Jewish immigrant's arranged marriage to a San Francisco businessman's Christian son. I fell in love with the characters, especially the gifted and spunky heroine, who learns about Yeshua from her at-first-unwanted fiance. Also, Catherine Palmer's story about a young Scandinavian woman with an infant, who arrives in Louisiana to find her husband dead, tugged my heartstrings. How she learns to trust God and give up her memories of her homeland as she falls in love with the exuberant Cajun hero makes for an engrossing and delightful story. I highly recommend this book!

Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

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Good crossover ethnomusicology/musicology text.
Trying to balance musicians, critics, and academics is tough
Great for rhythm section players !

Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Ingrid Monson
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0226534774

Book Description

This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in the creation of music through improvisational interaction, in the shaping of social communities and networks through music, and in the development of cultural meanings and ideologies that inform the interpretation of jazz in twentieth-century American cultural life.

Replete with original musical transcriptions, this broad view of jazz improvisation and its emotional and cultural power will have a wide audience among jazz fans, ethnomusicologists, and anthropologists.

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Good crossover ethnomusicology/musicology text........2006-03-17

Saying Something provides a musical analysis of jazz rhythm sections and gives a first hand account of various theoretical concepts within Jazz music. This account is supported by interviews with a variety of New York based professional musicans and this gives weight to Monson's analysis. This is a well written (easy to read!!) and comprehensive text.

Trying to balance musicians, critics, and academics is tough.......2004-09-09

Ingrid Monson's volume, "Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction" is a somewhat lesser known work following in the shadow of Paul Berliner, whom Monson pays ample tribute to. Her volume is intended to say something to all of its overlapping audiences, and it succeeds well, using interviews and close musical readings of very important pieces. There is much to say about the musical analyses, but I choose here to concentrate on the less formalistic aspects. That job will remain for another reviewer.

Monson claims that when "a musician successfully reaches a discerning audience, moves it members to applaud or shout praises, raises the energy to dramatic proportions, and leaves a sonorous memory that lingers long after, he or she has moved beyond technical experiences....and into the realm of 'saying something.'" But what does this mean? For Monson, this means to make discourse, and multivalently, to make community.

Monson moves towards thinking of music making as a community-building function, rather than communities organized by race, class, geography, or gender. In fact, those categories are attended to in terms of music, rather than the other way around. Music performance, and well as repetoire, promotion, and booking agents, create imagined communities between performers. Her approach to community-building is based in Anthony Giddens (1984) rather than Benedict Anderson (1991).

In outlining the special contributions of the rhythmic and accompaniment sections of the jazz ensemble, Monson draws special attention not only to the specifics of drum, piano, and bass, but also to the word "listening." For her, listening means "being able to respond to musical opportunities or to correct mistakes." It is an active term. Musicians must pay attention to what is going on if they "expect to say things that make sense to the other participants." Moreover, since improvisation is key to jazz performance, listening is a prerequisite for playing to the moment within a musical narrative. In the free play of conversation/improvisation, the discursive conditions may change spontaenously and unexpectedly from moment to moment, since no one person authors the narrative alone. In addition, to be told that one "doesn't listen" is a paramount challenge and insult in jazz performance. It means the performer isn't communicating with other performers, but ineptly (at best) or arrogantly (at worst) attempting to control the entire parameters of the discourse. Sociability and interaction is at the core of collective improvisation, and if it is denied, the conversation is foreclosed.

But what of the statements themselves? How do jazz phrases and sentences work in what we might call improvisation/conversation? Monson takes a page from Bakhtin (1981), discussing the notion of internal dialogism, in two aspects: 1) multiple semantic meanings that change and are changed according to the shifting demands of the relationship between the meanings and the cultural context that makes meaning sensible. 2) the "temporal context" in which things are expressed in relation to the history of other discourses. Statements are caught between two different forces of language (centripetal and centrifugal forces) Utterances are caught signifying towards the unitary center (centripetal) and away from it in their particularity (centrifugal). Thus each statement is a torn contradiction inside, and also most meaningful at the same time. A "tension-filled unity." Others have race-d and extended this concept, such as African-American poet Elizabeth Alexander, who contend for a space that moves away from bifucated division and towards an space of "myriad particulars of identity."(1992) Notice how compatible this dualistic tension formula is with W.E.B Dubois's notion of the African-American "double consciousness." These racial aspects of hegemony in both in the history of jazz reception and in the interactions of jazz musicians with others who talk about jazz and "music" are highlighted in Monson's work.

When jazz musicians talk about music departments, they recognize that the words "music department" means "Western Classical Music department." Western Classical form has been anointed at the recognized highest status, and therefore stands for (and crowding out) the space in which the term music has institutional meaning. So when jazz musicians request not to be pigeonholed by the term "jazz," we must recognize that they are speaking to the cultural politics of labeling, or naming..of telling, and of listening. Musicians recognize Foucault's truth that 'discourses construct the objects of which they speak', rather than represent them in some naive, simplistic way. At the same time, Monson is careful not to overstate the case of cultural theory in explaining or explicating the 'meaning of music.' If we leave the realm of the musician too often or too long, we are no longer listening--no longer able to respond in the free play of conversation/improvisation.

Great for rhythm section players !.......2000-06-13

There are many books about improvising jazz and the harmonies involved. This book has something extra -- coverage of the improvisational interactions that occur while playing with the other muscicians. There is a whole discussion of the rhythm section performing one large "solo" during the entire peice, underneath the soloist. This really spoke to my "bass player" self.

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Something Blue
Charlotte Armstrong
Manufacturer: Ace Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0824859723

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A story of murder and punishment and changed identities-dead, borrowed and forgotten until romance came to an innocent young girl who, without knowing it, was living on borrowed time.

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Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Elaine Barbieri , Constance O'Banyon , Evelyn Rogers , and Bobbi Smith
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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FOUR WEDDINGS...AND NO FUNERAL!

Is there anything more beautiful than a bride? Anything more emotional than a wedding? Here to capture that shimmering excitement, to bring to life the matrimonial mantra of 'Something old, something new,' are four spellbinding novellas by four historical-romance stars. In Something Old, Elaine Barbieri crafts a suspenseful tale of an old grudge-and dangerously arrange an arrogant bachelor father, a mysterious baby nurse, and a motherless newborn into the portrait of a proper South Carolina clan? In Evelyn Rogers Something Borrowed, a pretty widow and a gambler on the lam borrow identities other Something Blue, Bobbi Smith deftly engages a debonair cavalry officer and a feisty saloon girl in a moving tale of sexy steel and heart-melting magnolias. So start reading...and get ready to start humming "Here Comes the Bride"!

Something Borrowed, Something Blue
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Something scary...

Better than playing Clue

A Swede's review...

New thriller of the summer

EXCELLENT

Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Sandy Henry
Manufacturer: Llumina Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1595263241

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From the moment her fiance slips the vintage aquamarine solitaire onto her finger, Abby begins to experience vivid, haunting dreams...of murder.

Customer Reviews:

Something scary..........2005-10-03

"All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done." This quote by Jane Austen opens Something Borrowed, Something Blue, but for Abigail Elizabeth Duncan nothing could be further from the truth. From the very beginning when Abby's doting boyfriend buys her the antique aquamarine ring she wants for their engagement, a strange element of violence creeps in. The murder of a young woman she never knew invades her dreams and Abby finds herself entangled in a mystery that will claim her own life if she cannot solve it in time. Author Sandy Henry has combined the bright mundane of everyday life with the darkness that can lie in the human soul and the combination is a disturbing one. If you enjoy the eerie, you are going to love this book!

Better than playing Clue.......2005-08-22

A winding, twisting tale of murder, romance, friendship, and family. Something Borrowed, Something Blue moves quickly and easily through a smart, unique story that left me hanging until the last few pages. Having read dozens of murder mysteries, this one was particulary appealing to me because it doesn't get lost in the details. Firming sticking to the story, Sandy Henry is now canonized in my short list of authors who wrote works I "couldn't put down."

Better than Professor Plum with the candlestick in the library.

A Swede's review..........2004-08-19

A perfect murder mystery with a touch of the supernatural, a number of possible suspects which will put wild guesses of motive in your head. Twists and turns that will make your thoughts fall apart, and some romance on top of that. What more can anyone want?
Sandy's way of describing with random details makes the characters and the scenes come alive, as well as they made me laugh in the middle of the dramatized and puzzling chapters.
The only problem with this book is that while reading it on the beach you'll forget to turn and lay on the other side in the sun. The book keeps you hooked! I wish I had Sandy's next mystery at the beach already tomorrow.

New thriller of the summer.......2004-08-07

I love this book! I read it in a single evening. Just when you think you've figured it out Sandy adds a new twist, and the characters are off and running. Sandy is very descriptive in her writing, and she keeps you guessing until the very end.

EXCELLENT.......2004-07-28

This book was excellent. It was well written and easy to follow. There weren't too many characters to keep track of and it just kept your interest all the way through. I picked up the book and thought I would start reading it, but it captures you from the very beginning, I couldn't put it down until I read every last page.

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Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Lenora Mattingly Weber
Manufacturer: Image Cascade Publishing
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