Beautiful Day: A Novel Author: Elin Hilderbrand | Language: English | ISBN:
B00A2DKQ72 | Format: PDF
Beautiful Day: A Novel Description
The Carmichaels and the Grahams have gathered on Nantucket for a wedding. Plans are being made according to the wishes of the bride's late mother, who left behind The Notebook: specific instructions for every detail of her youngest daughter's future nuptials. Everything should be falling into place for the beautiful event--but in reality, things are far from perfect.
While the couple-to-be are quite happy, their loved ones find their own lives crumbling. In the days leading up to the wedding, love will be questioned, scandals will arise, and hearts will be broken and healed. Elin Hilderbrand takes readers on a touching journey in BEAUTIFUL DAY--into the heart of marriage, what it means to be faithful, and how we choose to honor our commitments.
- File Size: 1198 KB
- Print Length: 419 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0316099775
- Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books (June 25, 2013)
- Sold by: Hachette Book Group
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00A2DKQ72
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,742 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I usually love love love Elin Hilderbrand books but this one wasn't my favorite. The whole premise of the whole book, the Notebook (yes, with a capital N) turned me off right from the getgo. The idea of a dying mom writing advice to her daughter for her wedding day sounds nice in theory, but Hilderbrand's execution of this idea turned Jenna into a pushover who got talked into a total domination of her wedding by her saintly dead mother. We are expected to feel sentimental and gushy about this mother, but I couldn't stop thinking that if she had been alive and planning all these details, she would have been looked upon as an overbearing royal pain in the butt. I mean, she planned everything right down to the brand of knives Jenna should ask for in her registry to how the vegetables at the wedding (asparagus) should be cooked. In a couple places in the Notebook, the mother basically says stuff like "oh don't feel obliged to wear my wedding dress, but the thought of you in it makes me cry so much that I have to stop writing". Hello manipulation!
I also thought it was really unfair that Pauline got treated the way she did...the only thing I could tell that she did that wasn't so great (at least till the end) was read the Notebook without permission, but she was probably feeling so left out of everything that I really can't blame her. Essentially, she got punished just because she wasn't Beth. I felt sorry for her.
Also, I really didn't like it how Jethro kept getting referred to as "Ryan's boyfriend" throughout the book. All the other characters were introduced once by describing who they were in relation to the other characters, and then referred to by name for the rest of the book. For example, Beanie was called Beanie, not "Kevin's wife".
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