Friday, October 4, 2024

Beginning ~ with the truth

Beginning
Every word in this book is true.  I only say that for the men who read it ― every woman who reads it will know its truth instinc-tively.  We could swear it was all made up and women would know better.
It's a Chick Thing: Celebrating the Wild Side of Women's Friendship ~ edited by Ame Mahler Beanland and Emily Miles Terry, 2000, social sciences, xvi + 189 pages

This collection has forty stories about the special and unique times that strengthen the bonds of women's friendships and create shared history. It takes a look at women's friendship at its wildest, with antics, escapades, risk taking, loyalty, irrepressible humor, and merriment.  I thought Fergie's and Diana's night on the town was funny, but it's just what I read when my friend Sharon brought some books and had lunch with me.

Read about Dolly Parton's escapades with her friends in high school,  how Sharon Stone literally gave Mimi Craven the shirt off her back, and the time when Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn faced down detractors of the "Coal Miner's Daughter."  I found it very annoying, though, that tHe woRdS were in mixed font, with some uPPercaSe lettErs and SomE loweR cAse, with NO  rhyme  oR reason.  That was annoying and made it hard to read.