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The Best of Friends by Sara James and Ginger Mauney - recommended by Stephanie“Ambition is like the sea wave,” Tennyson wrote, “which the more you drink, the more you thirst.” Sara James, a “Dateline” correspondent for NBC, and Ginger Mauney, a wildlife filmmaker, are two women with just such a thirst, and they have taken many years and traveled thousands of miles to slake it. They believe that what binds them together is not their great desire to achieve but the durability of a friendship that has lasted decades and that took root during their idyllic girlhoods in Virginia. Yet “The Best of Friends” seems to address ambition as much as friendship. This is an interesting read that takes you away to explore other life choices.
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan - recommended by Robyn
It is 1962, and college graduates Florence and Edward, very much children of late 1950s London, are ready to launch themselves as a couple. Musical Florence is hoping for a concert career and looking forward to the wedding she believes will truly define her adulthood. Edward, a budding historian from a troubled family, envisions lifelong domestic joy with his beautiful fiancée. However, both are plagued by private anxieties they can't bring themselves to discuss. As Edward plans an idyllic beachside wedding night, he broods about overcoming Florence's physical shyness given his own sparse experience. He has no idea she is terrified of sex but has grimly resolved to do her submissive duty. The results are false assumptions, confusion, and a nightmarish (and graphically described) sexual disaster that destroys the marriage even before it starts. - library catalog
It is 1962, and college graduates Florence and Edward, very much children of late 1950s London, are ready to launch themselves as a couple. Musical Florence is hoping for a concert career and looking forward to the wedding she believes will truly define her adulthood. Edward, a budding historian from a troubled family, envisions lifelong domestic joy with his beautiful fiancée. However, both are plagued by private anxieties they can't bring themselves to discuss. As Edward plans an idyllic beachside wedding night, he broods about overcoming Florence's physical shyness given his own sparse experience. He has no idea she is terrified of sex but has grimly resolved to do her submissive duty. The results are false assumptions, confusion, and a nightmarish (and graphically described) sexual disaster that destroys the marriage even before it starts. - library catalog
MOVIE WATCH
The Way We Were - recommended by Patrice
A handsome, former star athlete and an attractive defender of radical causes meet by accident eight years after college and fall in love. Their marriage of opposites is strained by seemingly inevitable conflicts and finally reaches a painful end.
A handsome, former star athlete and an attractive defender of radical causes meet by accident eight years after college and fall in love. Their marriage of opposites is strained by seemingly inevitable conflicts and finally reaches a painful end.
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