The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir | 
Drove downtown to #indiebookstore for #SmallBusinessSaturday. Ack, parking lots were $20 because of the Univ. of Tenn. game. But I lucked out and found a free 30-minute slot right in front of the store!! Spent $101 there; some things for #ssgp and #geekygraphicnovelswap and this book for ME.
pickI chose to read this book because it reminded me of when I was a child and my mother played mah jongg each week. At first I wasn't sure I was going to like it but as I got into it I really started to enjoy it. So many parts of it could have been about my mother. It kind of gave me a different perspective of her. The story gave me a greater appreciation of the mother-daughter relationship.
pickLovely story!!!
pickWhat a lovely and poignant book! It reminded both myself and a friend of The Astronauts Wives Club-similar era and cultural viewpoints. This book delves much deeper into the mother daughter relationship, aging and loss, and of course Bridge. I also learned that I don't think I will ever become a bridge player LOL 😂
so-soI enjoyed the writing. I thought this was going to be a memoir about the different bridge ladies... and it was.. but it was also therapy session about the authors relationship with her Mom. I think I just couldn't relate to the author. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
pickIt was really good. A bit too close to home for me, taking care of my 89-yo mother. I could relate to the author way too much. But yah, really good book about women who got together every week to lunch & play bridge and the author trying to understand them and especially her own mother. End of an era. Or is it?
pickI read this for book club, I was thinking ick how much more boring than a book about bridge! I actually loved it. It was a good memoir of growing up in the 50's and 60'. It provided a lot of questions I want to ask my mother.
Getting some reading in before work. Just regular coffee in the Christmasy mug I found in the back of mom's cabinet.🌲
It wasn't my intention to read memoir after memoir. It just so happened that memoirs were the first books on the library shelf that I was browsing and a bunch of them sounded good! Just finished "Alligator Candy". Once I got into it I found it hard to put down. The author took his time getting to the details of what happened to his 11-yo brother. I'm looking forward to this "darkly funny, deeply moving" story about mother & daughter.
I'm enjoying The Bridge Ladies tonight but know that I will never learn the game of bridge as I'm confused just reading about it.
pickWow! Just loved this memoir about mothers and daughters, the changing expectations of life, love and work. Struck close to home, even though I'm not Jewish, nor did my Mom play bridge. Read this to remember your coming of age in the 70s.
So, this gets moved to the top of the TBR pile now!
pickWonderful! I loved every sentence of this book, up to and including the last line of the acknowledgements. I read and loved Food and Loathing several years ago. Now I need to go look for The Forest for the Trees and will happily read anything else my new best friend Betsy writes.
There's a gem on every page. "Why am I always seated next to the Travis Bickles of the world?"
Reminds me of the novel And Ladies of the Club. This, however, is a memoir about a 50-year-old bridge club & the women and events that connected the players through time and across generations. I'm interested in the links between mothers & daughters and the long friendships.
The loveliest memoir.Betsy Lerner's mom has belonged to the same Bridge Club for fifty five years.Bridge&lunch every Monday.The generation of women who dress up everyday.Betsy joins them &as their lives unfold Betsy&her mom reconnect.#bridgeladies
