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    The Shortest Distance Between Two Women
    The Shortest Distance Between Two Women
    The Shortest Distance Between Two Women
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Shortest Distance Between Two Women

    Written by Kris Radish

    Narrated by Nicole Poole

    2.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From best-selling author Kris Radish comes this moving tale of family bonds and second chances. Fortythree- year-old Emma Gilford has always been an obedient daughter and sister. But when a voice from the past comes calling, Emma wonders if it's time to stop thinking of others-and start chasing her own desires. ". a veteran at portraying female relationships, her affection for her characters shines through ."-Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 14, 2010
    ISBN9781449830670
    The Shortest Distance Between Two Women
    Author

    Kris Radish

    Kris Radish is the best-selling author of twelve novels and three works of non-fiction. Her empowering books focus on the very real issues women face in their lives, and she celebrates the important and amazing power of female friendship via her novels and with the yearly retreats she holds for women. Radish lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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    • 4/5
      This was an Early Reviewer Book. I have read all the reviews and I couldn't disagree more! This was the first book I have read of Kris Radish and I loved it, in fact I just bought a copy for my siser. The book is the story of a family told by one sister. The characters are a mother, four sisters, nieces, nephews, in-laws and new family members. It is an honest look into the lives of the many members that make up a family and how we think we know our siblings based on our experiences as childrens. However, we don't really know what goes on in their homes and their private lives as we fall back into our childhood relationships any time we get together. This book was interesting and I came to like all the characters, especially Emma.

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    • 2/5
      Emma, 43 and single, is the youngest of four daughters, three of whom live, along with their long-widowed mother, in a small-town Charleston suburb. She’s having all kinds of angst because in the midst of preparing for the annual big-deal family reunion, she finds a message on her answering machine from a long-ago lover (previously a sister’s boyfriend). This usually-reliable woman can’t seem to do anything about it, or about anything else going on around her.I was frustrated with this book for a number of reasons. First, what is it with all these newer authors writing almost exclusively in the present tense? It gives the book a feeling of edginess it doesn’t need or merit. Secondly, the writing is very poor, often with very long sentences with too many phrases or clauses running the length of a paragraph, such as this one from page 134*:There were the ridiculous humiliations of childhood that everyone suffers—teasing on the playground; not being part of whatever group was cool that week; not realizing that you are supposed to pant after boys when several girls are already panting; a discussion about sex during a sleepover that totally mystifies you because you have no clue what your girlfriends are talking about; thinking that you have always heard a different drummer but have never been quite able to find the right set of sticks to make sure the music does not stop; the random notion that something was always going on inside the family that you did not know about and that they did not think you were smart or old enough to know about; that feeling of “maybe I should too” when someone leaves a job, changes college majors, drops out or suddenly disappears; lost loves; the simple notion that no one you are related to will ever consider you an adult; the more complex notion that you may never really want to be an adult; expectations unmet; and this tremendous, and always growing, conviction that someone is always going to need you and you will be busy with the needing so you will never find the correct drumsticks anyway.Huh?Between Emma’s almost nonstop ruminating (all talk/thought, little action) and her weird habit of lying down in her garden and “caressing her plants,” (page 38), I didn’t have a lot of sympathy for this character, nor for her dysfunctional sisters. The mother, Marty, was more interesting, finding love (and apparently great sex) again at age 78 after many years alone. Emma’s niece, the philosophical punk Stephanie/Stephie, and her beauty pageant subplot were also pretty unrealistic.In particular, the ending was disappointing. Author Kris Radish covers the family reunion/Marty’s wedding and the beauty pageant, but leaves dangling the subplots on the long-ago lover and an upcoming intervention with the alcoholic oldest sister (mother of the niece and whose husband has an affair). Reading the resolutions to these would have been far more interesting than the reunion or the pageant. I can’t really recommend this book, even as a beach read.[*A caveat though – this was an advance reading copy, so I can only hope such a scramble of syntax was corrected before the book went to press.]
    • 2/5
      I have to be honest. I won this book as an advanced reading copy. After reading the reviews I don't even want to read it. I feel like life is too short to read bad books and this one doesn't seem to be worth the time when I have so many others to read!
    • 2/5
      I got this from early reviewers and as always was excited to recieve a free book. In the end I was glad it was that. Free. I have read her other books and enjoyed them but this one just never took hold. I just never felt a connection with any of the characters in the book and the ending seemed to be very rushed and didn't seem to tie up any of the story. I wish it had been better.
    • 3/5
      I admire Kris Radish's exuberance, and even when I feel her book has a few holes in it, I enjoy the tale. The ups and downs of the family relationships had a familiar ring, yet I wanted to keep reading to see what would happen next. (As an aside, this book left me wishing I lived closer to my mother and my sister so we could have more of the every-day conversations instead of the highlights-of-the-week phone calls). I did feel the ending came a little abruptly, with some loose ends dangling, but all in all, a fun read for the beach.
    • 3/5
      I received this book through the Early Reviewers program. While it does drag on and become repetitive in many instances (she mentions the damn family reunion almost every other line), overall it's an ok book about the ties between mothers and daughters, and the ties between sisters that hold families together, for right or wrong. I liked the second half of the book a lot more than the first half.
    • 2/5
      This book was terrible. I am shocked that it has as many stars as it has. The story over all, was a cute story, but the writing was SO annoying!!!! I was close to putting this book down and I never do that. Most of the characters were completely horrible, I disliked just about every one of them. And the writer had this annoying habit, that appeared half way through the book, where she would pick a phrase like "My mother didn't go there because..." and start about 10 paragraphs with that same phrase. And this would happen every 4 pages or so. The same story could have been written but another author and have been a great read, as it was it was just torture.
    • 2/5
      While this book was an enjoyable read in a few parts, I found myself growing quite tired of Emma's self-pity and emoting. I feel that if the author (Kris Radish) had perhaps filled in some of the subplots rather than having allowed her main character to wallow in her self-created despair, this story might have ended up feeling more substantial. I'm afraid that it simply falls short.
    • 1/5
      Librarything early reviewer book. I couldn't finish this. Well, of course I could have but I chose not to. It is not well-written and the story is overblown & stupid. The characters are mean to each other and stay in this unpleasant involvement with each other that makes no sense. I'm sure by the end everybody has grown and the main character has found love & hope and maybe even a late pregnancy. Except maybe the mother. I couldn't tell how old the mother was supposed to be, but she has to be mid-70's so maybe she gets sick. Anyway, I read over 100 pages and decided to stop. PS: After reading the other reviews I am very very glad I did, the story meanders on & the main character doesn't even move forward.
    • 2/5
      Talk about dysfunctional families! This one fits at the head of the list. Several times the author attempts to emphasize the free spiritedness of the family, but it just doesn't work. You don't feel in empathy, sympathy, or anything else for these people. Stephie wasn't too bad, but a 16 year old who had more sense than most of the adults.is a scary sitiuation. I finished this book because I believe in giving a book every chance. It was close sometimes though because I wanted to just chunck it. Too bad.
    • 1/5
      First, I'd like to say that I realize this is an Early Reviewer book, and therefore the copy that I have is not the final copy. However, that being said, I felt that what I had was almost unreadable. The text was filled with cliches telling me things like "Emma's heart is dancing the tango with great joy..." Oh, please. And it contained the longest, most contrived sentences encountered since Thackeray! For example:The last Friday in March, which makes Emma lean over as if a stomach cramp the size of Lousiana has just moved into her lower intestines while she calculates the number of extra hours she will now be spending with her apparently sex-crazed mother and two of her three older and occasionally certifiable sisters, Joy and Debra, who still live close enough to her so when she leaves her windows open Emma swears she can sometimes hear them barking like wild dogs at each other and their children and their silent spouses.WHAT?!?!?!(Upon further review, I don't even think that's a sentence since I can't find a verb in the independent clause, but it's hard to tell.)Could only be saved by a major re-write.
    • 3/5
      This was a pleasant and enjoyable read with a good message, although it was a bit too long -- the author tends to belabor her points with overuse of multiple parallel sentences. It's a story about four sisters and their widowed mother, living in a small town in South Carolina and dealing with various problems while also planning a giant yearly family reunion. The protagonist, Emma, is the youngest and quietest of the sisters, and the only one who's single. The book opens with her finding a message on her answering machine from an old boyfriend. The typical novel of this kind would bring the guy to her in about the middle of the book, and they'd be together at the end. Ms. Radish doesn't write it that way, and her book is the better for it. The book has good messages about family and about being yourself.