Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

Firefly Lane is a book about two friends, they meet when they are fourteen their friendship never ends. TullyandKate (as they become known to everyone at school) do everything together. Tully is the rebel, beautiful and wild, while Kate is the bookworm with a good head on her shoulders. In a twist of fate, TullyandKate get arrested for underage drinking and Kate's parents adopt Tully. They do everything together, go to college get a job at the same TV broadcasting station and everything is looking up. Until Kate finally decides she doesn't want the dream they have chosen. In fact, it was always TULLY'S dream, never hers. She wants a family, white picket fence with a minivan and the all the cliches. Tully will never settle down, she'll never marry and she'll always be the life of the party. But what happens when Tully finds herself 40 years old and alone... Parties only make her tired, booze doesn't sit well anymore and Kate is living the good life with her husband and three kids. Will they always be "forever friends" or are they just too different?

Ok... so first off.. This book was WAY too long. It took me over two weeks to read and I just kept having a hard time. But for some reason.. everytime I put it down out of frustration, I ended up picking it up again! It was great in the beginning and so intriguing. A book many women will easily relate to as it follows two best friends from the age of 14 to well past their 40s. I often found myself frustrated with Tully's selfish ways and relating to Kate's "don't mind me" attitude. Kate often held her tongue out of love for her forever friend and ended up getting pushed aside so Tully could shine. But in the end, it all made sense and it made me realize that there is a REASON why I'm like Kate, and that it's ok. I cried so much in the last few chapters becuase of something I never saw coming.. and it all made it worth those several paragraphs I scanned over out of frustration. It's well written, and Hannah doesn't leave a detail of their lives out. So while that can get a little frustrating.. it makes you so much closer with the girls and so worth it.

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Hi there!

Ok.. so I suck at life. My apologies.

My challenge was a DRASTIC failure.. COMPLETELY epic. I was way too stressed and pushed for time that I didn't get any reading done! And of course I chose the HARDEST two books of my stack to start with so it made it worse. I couldn't read Elegance of the Hedgehog.. I ADORE french movies and thought that a french book would be wonderful... but I've realized that what makes a french movie is the cinematography.. and I'm afraid I can't get that from a french book because I'm too busy trying to understand everything to get an images formed!! So then I turned to "Firefly Lane:" (the review is next) and it was so long that it literally took me two weeks to read... And I'm a girl who normally finishes books in 1-3 days.. So add all that and then the fact that for the last two weeks I've not had internet access at my new place (and won't for awhile) and it all fell apart. I now live in the small town I grew up in and there are only three places that has wireless internet (free). The Public Library, the local Subway, and Zanders- a hip ice cream parlor that is WAY too cool for such a small town so it is entirely worshipped and you ALWAYS find people here. Many thanks to the owners for giving us lowly college students a cool place to hang, eat good food, and use FREE internet! So here I sit at Zanders now, eating delicious broccoli cauliflower pasta salad, sipping home-brewed sweet tea (no syrup here!) and trying desperately to catch up. So even though I have absolutely NO followers.. (small pity party. ok I'm done) I'm going to keep it up. We all need something regular in our lives, I think that starting with something small will help me out. I'm going to keep doing book reviews, and I have another blog of randomness I'm going to quit neglecting. Thanks to all of you who DO stop in and read (my numbers are low but NOT non-existent!) and feel free to Follow me! (hint hint... lol)

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