By Invitation Only
By Dorothea Benton Frank
This is a book group book this week.
I feel like all the symptoms of this pregnancy are really early. I already feel like I am the size of a whale, my back and hips are killing me and I have heartburn no matter what I eat or drink. But the baby is still in my tummy and growing so I am not going to complain. I am just trying get things done before the little snicklefritz comes in late August. I have been trying to start/finish quilting projects and such before the holidays. The same goes for the books I am required to read for the book group I lead at church.
This week's book is the book for this month's meeting. It was a nice change of pace from all the hard hitting topics that our group seems to pick every month. The book was By Invitation Only by Dorothea Benton Frank, and the plot is literally the plot of every romantic comedy that revolves around a wedding between two people with different backgrounds. The bride comes from a wealthy family from Chicago and the groom is the only child of peach farmers from the south. The book alternates between the mother of the bride and the mother of the groom, and sometimes the bride has a random chapter here and there. The book is pretty paint by number plot wise. The mother of the bride wants some grand circus of a wedding and the groom's mother can't afford all the trimmings. One thing for sure, it reminded me that I will be the mother of the bride and groom maybe someday, and I know I will always want my children to decide what kind of wedding they will want. It also made me want to drink sweet tea the whole time as well.
If you go for sappy romantic comedies that seem to be “everything turns out peachy” then this is the book for you. I thought it was fine and definitely fine for the kids to listen with me when I listened to parts of it on cd.
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