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    Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
    Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
    Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
    Audiobook12 hours

    Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

    Written by Kris Radish

    Narrated by Linda Stephens

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Best-selling author of The Sunday List of Dreams, journalist and nationally syndicated columnist Kris Radish creates vividly imagined female characters who seem to jump from the pages. In Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral, Katherine Givens befriends the four other women who, through the unexpected circumstance of their recently deceased friend Annie Freeman's last will and testament, are about to share a life-affirming road trip
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 26, 2007
    ISBN9781440799518
    Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
    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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    • 1/5
      I skimmed through this book faster than I have ever skimmed a book before. The author lost me after the first few pages; reading about the woman who was in love with her worn out bra was enough for me. And I only skimmed to the end because this book was chosen for a book club. What a waste of time.
    • 5/5
      What else to say besides "I LOVED THIS BOOK" I will read it again... and probably again after that. Take a moment to scoop this up and enjoy every page!
    • 4/5
      bookbox; 5 friends are given the directive by their recently deceased friend to get together and follow Annie's directions to be the "pallbearers" of her ashes in an all expenses paid traveling funeral. At every stop, there's a surprise waiting that explains certain major things in Annie's life. At first very somber, the gals get in the spirit of Annie with Red high-top Keds and red bandanas. good book
    • 4/5
      I stopped reading this book a bit back because it made me cry... and for some reason I picked it back up on my birthday (yesterday) and had to finish it.

      So very deep & thought provoking.....

      "It ain't easy," Lou says, slapping her knees and standing, when they have finished. "I've had a world of loss dropped into my hands, including our Annie, but we're women and we deal with it and we do it in a way that somehow becomes a gift. Isn't that something? Isn't it something how we can take something that is so painful it makes you drop to the floor and turn it into a life lesson that makes you actually glad it happened? That's what women do. We get on with it. It sure is something."

      I do believe that this book was a bit over done at times, but I liked it none-the-less. I'm not sure I'll read another of the author's books, as I so prefer happier & more entertaining stories. But I am not sorry I read this & I will leave it behind in the "Library" of the hotel I am staying in!
    • 1/5
      Annie G Freeman knew she was dying (ovarian cancer), so she planned an unusual funeral. Her ashes were to be scattered over several sites that had importance in her life, and her “pallbearers” were to be several women she’d known and loved.

      This is a pretty interesting premise and could have been a decent book. But Radish has given us cardboard characters, and over-written scenarios. I think a 7-year-old could determine the “important lessons” at each of the stops on the funeral route; but Radish doesn’t trust her readers to let them discern this for themselves. Instead, she hits us over the head with long, serious monologues, which are then further interpreted by one of the other women so everyone understands how important this was. Puh-leeze!

      Linda Stephens does an okay job reading the audio book. She does not sufficiently differentiate all the many female characters to make them easily distinguishable. Still, it’s not difficult to follow. Her emphasis on the “important” parts drove me nuts.

      I give it 1 star just because the premise was interesting (and I must be feeling generous, or am just so glad to be done with it).
    • 3/5
      I liked the book. It isn't the type of book I would normally pick up to read. That is one reason I enjoy my book club. It gets me out of my comfort zone and to try new books. I found the book at times to be redundant. These women traveling around to these locations that meant something to their friend Annie and trying to figure out why, how or what happened in these places. Some of the characters I enjoyed more than others.There are some life lessons in the book. The biggest one is to make time... for life, friends, family anything other then work!!
    • 4/5
      I loved this book. It was heart-warming and it made me laugh and cry. This book takes you on a journey where you see these women discover things about themselves and their friend Annie.
    • 4/5
      Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral begins with Annie's ashes being delivered to her oldest friend with a request that she spread her ashes in specific places around the country with four of Annie's closest friends. They clear their schedules and get on a plane, leading them to self-discovery, friendship, clarity, and closure. As a bonus, they all wear red Converse the whole time."Annie didn't have many rules for the traveling funeral but we know for sure she wanted us to celebrate her life more than to mourn the loss of it..."Lately I've been trying not to read sappy books where a character dies because - SURPRISE! - they can really get me down. It was nice for a change to read one that was uplifting instead. If you don't like books where everything is wrapped up a little too nicely at the end you won't like it, but if you're looking for something fun and a little thought provoking this is for you.
    • 3/5
      Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral, is the story of a woman who plans her own funeral before she dies, makes all the arrangements and then has her ashes and instructions sent to her best friend who must then contact four other close friends to conduct Annie's traveling funeral. I read this one several years ago, and found I had a different perspective the second time through. Our book club discussed whether the reaction to the book is based on the age of the reader, or it just wasn't as deep as I initially thought it was. It was chick-lit with a bitter-sweet message. This is a book worth picking up if you come across it. There are laugh out loud parts, and grab your kleenex moments. But then, isn't that what life is all about?
    • 4/5
      I found this book to be completely enjoyable, with a lot of laughs and maybe a few "damp-eye" places. The women in the story are ones I'd like to adopt as my own friends. The editing could have been improved but that's not the fault of the author.
    • 4/5
      It was a fun and witty read about a bunch of girlfriends who hit the road on go on a traveling funeral. At times, I found it wordy and a bit repetitive. Made me think about death and dying and how to keep the ones we lose alive in our hearts and how do you want your loved ones to remember you after you are gone. Loved the idea of a traveling funeral!
    • 2/5
      I have not finished reading this book! However, it has made me stop and think of the friends I have and the send off I would want to have. A dead women sends her friends ona traveling funeral to spread her ashes.
    • 1/5
      The road to a bad novel is paved with good intentions. Nine times out of ten, when a novelist wants to do me good, or inspire me, or teach me, I end up hating the book. I won't rule out the possibility that I am just a nasty, negative person, but I will go out on a limb with this book and say it's not me, it's Kris Radish. This novel is bad.The premise is cute: Annie Freeman, who dies of cancer, asks a group of her women friends to scatter her ashes in various American locales that held special meaning for her. None of these women know each other, but while on the trip, they bond with each other based on their love for Annie. Each of them is inspired to change her life for the better, based on Annie's wisdom and example. Annie is incredibly wise, dynamic, funny, altruistic, intelligent, loving. So we are told, over and over and over again. But we never meet Annie in flashback. The author does not give us a chance to form our own opinion of Annie. We are simply told how wonderful she is, and how wonderful her friends are, and how all the strangers they meet along the way are astounded by their love and their womanly womanness. It gets very tedious very fast.The women on the funeral trip all sound alike, except for the one woman with a penchant for scatological slang. Their conversation reads like a transcript from a feminist group-therapy session: "'I feel ready to open up the boundaries of my own world,' Balinda confesses." These women continually profess their love for Annie and for each other, in a highly romanticized depiction of female relationships, but we never feel what they feel. My library has a nice section of "how to write" manuals, and I'm sure most of them include some variation of the old advice, "show, don't tell." This novel is a perfect - negative - example for that advice.
    • 3/5
      It's a great look at women's friendship, but shies away from the sappy realm that denotes most chick lit. Though I will say if you don't like chick lit, this isn't for you."What you remember," Katherine reminds herself, "is not what they think you will remember. It is often not."100% agreed. I think back to friends and family members I've lost and I definitely remember the little things in lieu of the big things. Grandpa always awake and sitting in his chair, no matter how early we thought we were getting up. Frank leaning against the kitchen table... But then again it is the little things that mean the most.I did the hard part. I was the one who died.God imagine saying that on the eve of your own death. On leaving you voice behind for your friends. But by the same tokemn, it's true. They still have one another. She's gone. Alone.I like how the secrets revealed themselves in their own time--the ones about her boys, her family, her loves. But as I said, in a non-overly sappy way. Even though a lot of loose ends were tie up, the author didn't make it seem rushed.Liked this a lot better than the Yaya series, can't put my finger on why though. At any rate, a good read.
    • 1/5
      Banal and cliched, this trite volume is why "chick lit" is considered a pejorative.
    • 2/5
      good concept about celebrating life at the time of death. The story dragged on a bit and a lot of characters to follow. no real plot. yet great story about how women could really help each other even when they are all completely different.
    • 3/5
      Just finished this book today, and it was okay. There were some really beautiful moments in the book, like when the shooting star goes by after one ceremony. Also, there are some great word pictures like sunset being the sweet time when the lightness of day falls into the arms of evening, and "quiet erupts" is really cool. It's a nice book, and it makes you pause and think about life and death and the deaths and lives of those you love, making it worth reading. But it's average on other levels, can be a bit wordy, and is a bit focused for a certain reading group, which makes it hard to read at times.
    • 5/5
      Kris Radish did not disappoint on this one. I want a traveling funeral. Typical of her - I laughed out loud, cried big tears, and wanted to hit the road. I was in the Southwest and all across the country with these girls. I want every girlfriend of mine to read it - be waiting for the package in the mail if something should happen to me.