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by: Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Binding: MP3 CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780792729082
Format: MP3 Audio, Unabridged
ISBN: 0792729080
Label: Sound Library
Manufacturer: Sound Library
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: 2003-04
Publisher: Sound Library
Sales Rank: 3827827
Studio: Sound Library
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Product Description:
Though True Dickinson was widowed eight years ago, her young son, her thriving business, and her loving friends give her a full life. Still, her fory-third birthday party, on a snowy Cape Cod night, is cause to reflect and lament her dwindling youth, beauty, and chances at romance.
But everything changes the moment True slides into a ditch on the drive home and comes face-to-face with an opportunity to let love back into her life.
Twelve Times Blessed is the story of one year of transformation in a woman's life, and an unforgettable tale of the perils and pleasures of love in the modern age.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Horrible Book!
My title says it all. This book is awful. The writing is sloppy and too wordy, the characters go from one strange quirk to the next, and the story isn't consistent at all. The minor characters are just that, when they could really add to the story in a meaningful way. I'm nearly finished with the book, I don't care how it ends, and I've quit reading it.
Rating:  - Loved it
I guess I'm among the minority but I absolutely loved this book. It's my favorite of all the books of Mitchard's that I've read, including Deep End of the Ocean. Sure, it may not be great literature, but it was definitely an entertaining story. I just loved the romance between True and Hank and it stuck with me for a long time after I finished it. I was hooked from the first night they meet in the bar, and I didn't care if it took 600+ pages, I had to know how it would end!
Rating: - Ugh
I agree with every negative review here, and no, it's NOT because I read "Deep End of the Ocean"; I have never read anything by this author. And never will again.
Here we have a spoiled, childish, obnoxious, self-centered New Englander named True Dickinson who inexplicably, at age 43, marries a ten-years-younger man. And then proceeds to doubt every breath in his body 24/7 while raising her 10-year-old son as if he was 3. Other reviewers didn't like Hank (the young husband); I personally ... Read More
Rating:  - Not as good as earlier works, but still good...
I'm not surprised that this book is getting somewhat panned by other readers; it doesn't live up to Mitchard's other work. But if I didn't know it was written by her, and hadn't had the expectations that come with it, I would have considered it a good book. Actually, I put off reading it for awhile, because of the other reviews I'd read; once I picked it up yesterday I read the whole thing in about two days. I couldn't put it down! It is beautifully written, as Mitchard's earlier works. The characters ... Read More
Rating: - Blessed or Cursed?
I've read most of these reviews so thought I would chip in my two cents worth. I think the main thing that bothered me was that Hank couldn't understand why his wife was upset, while he married to her with a baby to a late in life mother was on the way, rushes to the comfort of an old friend, one that he had been most in love with for 6 years. Also I couldn't understand why it took True so long to wonder about 3 people's references to all the letters he wrote to her that she hadn't received. Where was ... Read More
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