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Title: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder: A Novel
ISBN: 0060175311
Author:
Rebecca Wells
Publicate Date: 2009-07-01
Publish: 2009-07-01
List Price: $25.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Calla Lily touches my heart
After reading the negative reviews of Calla Lily, I felt compelled to write my own review. I have read and reread all of Rebecca Wells' other books and each time, I find something new about each one that intrigues and surprises me. I waited for several months after downloading "Calla Lily" so that I could find just the right time and place to enjoy the latest RW book. I was not disappointed in the least. This book doesn't need to be compared to the YaYa books because it can stand on its own merit. Calla Lily is a wonderful character and her strength throughout her life is amazing. I enjoyed every page of this book and I laughed and cried sometimes at the same time as I was reading. Thank you, Rebecca, for another treasure and one that I know I will read again!!
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2: A lovely, poignant story!!
Rebecca Wells has beautifully written an engaging coming-of-age story that is rich with emotion. Beginning with her 1950's childhood, it follows Calla Lily Ponder's bittersweet journey into adulthood guided by the Moon Lady. While growing up in tiny La Luna, Louisiana, Calla is surrounded by the love of her family, friends and the neighborhood women gathered at her beloved mother's beauty salon. Her dream is to follow in her mother's footsteps...healing women's hearts while fixing their hair. But soon, tragedy strikes and Calla leaves for vibrant New Orleans, where her adventures change her life forever.
Ms. Wells is a gifted storyteller. She has masterfully created an engaging storyline with a wonderful cast of endearing, compelling characters, and a sweet, loving relationship between mother and daughter. She does a magnificent job describing the essence of life in a small southern town. An enchanting spiritual element was beautifully woven throughout. As entertaining as this story was, it did include important lessons about life, friendship and the resilience of the human spirit. I really loved this thoroughly enjoyable book and I highly recommend it!
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3: Solace
I enjoyed reading this book and missed it when it was over. The experience of reading it was unexpectedly healing for me during a hard time, and I'm not even sure why. It just felt good. Yes, there were a few inconsistencies that stood out, but not enough to diminish the overall experience of enjoyment and solace I experienced from this read. I keep looking for another book like it.
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4: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
Calla Lily Ponder is a little girl growing up on the banks of La Luna, a river in old-time Louisiana, with her two vibrant, creative parents, her one-of-a-kind friends, including Tuck, who is just a little too sweet to be just a buddy, and the mysterious Moon Lady her M'Dear (what she calls her mother), assures Calla resides in the moon watching over her. After a year of heavy, post-modernistic reading I was excited for some down-home goodness and what could be better than a new novel by the acclaimed author of //The Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood//? Though I found genuine relief in the premise, I grew disappointed in the novel's lack of surprise, ambition and novelty. Tradition and nostalgia can be beautiful, indispensable tricks of the trade but when coupled with the common plague of drunken fathers, early death, and trite descriptions of sexuality, the hoped-for magic loses its great potential. Despite my nit-picky indifference, come summer this book is sure to be a good friend while sunning, resting after a long day's work, or sipping sweet tea as you remember your own blossoming adolescence.
Reviewed by Natalie Fladager
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5: Sweet, funny, sexy southern tale
This audio book narrator was amazing. I kept forgetting there was only one person reading this book.
I have been waiting for so very long for Rebecca Wells to write another book. I was not disappointed. There were times when I had arrived home and wanted to pop this audio book out of my car cd player and bring it in. It was sweet and funny and sexy. I could relate to many of the main character's experiences of growing up, but not in any overt way. She was so lovable, Calla Lily Ponder. The story made me think, too, about people and how there is more than what we perceive in a person we may run in to. They are not their jobs or their "station" in life. Complexities are everywhere. Woven into the plot are some 1960-1980 issues in the South: racism, homophobia, oil money, . . . Beautiful southern descriptions of flowers and families and communityare included as well. A really nice story.
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