Meet Karla, Kelly, Marilyn, Jane, Jenny, Karen, Cathy, Angela, Sally, Diana, and Sheila. Eleven girls that all grew up together in Ames, Iowa and forty years later are still friends today. Jeffrey Zaslow spent a year visiting each of these women in their homes and listening to their stories. Voted as one of the top 10 books of the year by People Magazine, The Girls from Ames is a true story about these women and the lives they have shared together from childhood to now into their forties.I loved this book. Because they are real women, I could relate to each one of them in their own way. Zaslow throws in a well-balanced mix of the triumphs, heartbreaks, and miniscule details that don't seem to really matter but are what really make up a great friendship. I laughed at moments and cried at others. And I fell in love with the girls from Ames.
On top of the stories about the women, he also random information about studies on friendships between women and how having close friends can have a very positive impact on your life. And how as great as it is to have friends that know you now, sometimes it's just nice to see those "old friends" who knew you when you were just getting started in becoming who you were. It definitely made me want to put down the book the moment I was done and pick up the phone to start calling all of my best girl friends.
A 5 star book, I highly recommend this book to everyone and luckily enough, TLC book tours has offered to giveaway one copy to one of my readers just for leaving a comment on this post with your favorite thing about your best friends. Giveaway ends Sunday, April 25th at midnight EST.
**I was given this book to review as part of TLC book tours. This is my honest opinion.
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My closest girl friends and I are now in 4 different states, but we stay close through phone calls and blogging. The best thing is I know if we bumped into each other today, it would be no different than we are now because we can share anything with each other.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing is our inside jokes.
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Hooray!! I'm so happy you enjoyed the book. Thanks so much for being on the tour, and for all the time spent reading and writing about The Girls from Ames!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing is that you can pick up where you left off without any pause! I would really like this book!
ReplyDeleteSounds interesting, Britni!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing about my best friends is that they can make fun of me without hurting my feelings. Be both know it's true...and they love me anyway.
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I've just renewed my friendship with my best friend. As our personal lives change we have more or less time for friendship, but our enjoyment of each other never changes.
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