Very Short Review 
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah, 2008 by St. Martin’s Press, 432 pages.
It’s about two girls who become best-friends-forever in junior high and how they navigate through life together despite divergent paths and misunderstandings. Honestly, I found it a bit tiresome on one hand and very emotional on the other.
This is an epic tale of friendship. I am giving it three pie slices for the author’s ability to make me cry. It was easy to allow my emotions to be swept along and I cried at the drop of every tender moment and tragic heart-break.
I think I am going to shy away from contemporary women’s fiction for the rest of the year. I find I am most critical of these type of books lately. I hope to choose books in different time and place settings, in varied mindsets and experiences for the remainder of the year.
Care's Books and Pie 
Whoop! Whoop whoop?
Yes, EXACTLY!
To see where the Whoop comment idea started, see this: http://jennysbooks.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/im-looking-through-you-jennifer-finney-boylan/
Well, if the book made you cry, it can’t be too bad. I love books that evoke emotions.
It was mightily effective in evoking and provoking emotions!
I don’t generally read this type of book. Not because I have anything against them…just too much pushing harder for my attention, you know. But I can pretty much guarantee I would have cried, too.
Hope your next read totally knocks your socks off!
I like how you put that… other books ‘pushing harder for attention’! I have had a string of books that I only ‘liked’ and I am looking forward to my next 4 or 5 star read. I think I will soon read something in fantasy… AFTER Lolita, though.
Well, Lolita should be about as far away as you can get from this one!
Hey, I just got your postcard today! You crack me up! It’s now a bookmark in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. 🙂
Snort, yes Lolita! eeek. I just finished P&P&Z yesterday. Library isnt’ open today or I’d go get Lolita. Hopefully on Monday.
I keep hearing this–the book takes forever and then it has you in tears. Which makes it kind of worth it!
Oh, that is exactly it: takes forever and has you in tears! I think all epics are too long by definition, don’t you?
Oh I have heard about the book or I might have heard about the author. On the other hand, no, I don’t think I have heard about the book but the name does sound familiar 🙂
I agree…best to stay away.
I read this book and enjoyed it for the most part. I agree that there were parts that did tend to drag on a little.
Which Lolita? Lolita, Lolita or Reading Lolita?
Ah, yes. Firefly Lane. I posted that it was a book I didn’t finish, and do you know that a whole ton of people told me I really should finish? But I still didn’t want to! So I compromised and skipped to the end (because one commenter said the end made the whole thing worth it.) Well.. I did not agree. It was tiresome, and tedious. And yes the end was a tear jerker, but I wasn’t actually jerked (or whatever) because I just wasn’t that emotionally invested!
Lolita, huh? You and Jilly-poo? Hmmmm.