Beach Trip

Beach Trip
By:Cathy Holton
Published on 2009-05-12 by Ballantine Books

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Cathy Holton's Summer in the South. Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s. Mel, a mystery writer living in New York, is grappling with the aftermath of two failed marriages and a stalled writing career. Sara, an Atlanta attorney, struggles with her own slowly unraveling marriage. Annie, a successful Nashville businesswoman married to her childhood sweetheart, can’t seem to leave behind the regrets of her youth. And sweet-tempered Lola whiles away her hours—and her husband’s money—on little pills that keep her happy. Now the friends, all in their forties, converge on Lola’s lavish North Carolina beach house in an attempt to relive the carefree days of their college years. But as the week wears on and each woman’s hidden story is gradually revealed, these four friends learn that they must inevitably confront their shared past, and a secret that threatens to change their bond, and their lives, forever.

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Don't you sort of maple (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's happy druthers) for the nice ol'days of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were evenly plainspoken, only functional, unpretentious, and -- above all else -- dull, dull, dull? Don't you kind of hate when persons state'do not you think in this manner or sense that way'in an endeavor to goad you both psychologically and grammatically into agreeing using them? In the words of ABBA: I really do, I do, I do(, I do, I do). Well, since the interwebs is a world where the past stands shoulder-to-shoulder with today's (and with fetish porn), we could revisit yesteryear in their inviolable presentness any moment we wish. Or at the least till this website ultimately tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's review of Macbeth in their entirety. I've destined it with huge rope and pulled it here for the perusal. 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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it absolutely was designed to be read, then it would be a novel, not a play. Together with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for every character for a few pages). None folks had browse the play before. None of us wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All this compounded to produce me pretty much hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can actually fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the writer and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to learn plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to learn a play then you definitely have sinned and are going to hell, if you believe in hell. Or even, you're going to the DMV. I'm also tired of all you could smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a message overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age when we are taught to respect each other's differences, this indicates offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow in your small linguistic rules. Imaginative concept is going to cost-free themselves it doesn't matter how you are attempting to shackle it. 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