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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars learn what women really think :-), October 10, 2001

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"darspann58" (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A False Sense of Well Being (Hardcover)

Now that I'm a retired teacher and a divorced man in my 50s, I'm always trying to read so-called "women's books" to find out what women really think about things. And, wow, is it enlightening!

A newspaper friend got an advance copy of this novel and passed it along to me. The book is a double pleasure (in addition to being an education for me) because it's so well written,wise,and witty. In this book the women are the ones in charge, whether they're misbehaving or just trying to figure out their lives. I laughed out loud at some scenes, & remembered some of my own lost loves in my youth. I'm telling all my friends and fellow readers about it.

OPRAH, take notice! This one will really strike a chord with women readers, even if it does leave some of us men scared and a little worried to find out what's really on the minds of our women friends.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is just wonderful, October 11, 2001

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This review is from: A False Sense of Well Being (Hardcover)

I just loved this book from the first sentence, which is undoubtedly the best opening line ever, and it stayed wonderful all the way through. It is very much about matters close to the heart -- love, death, family, marriage, the grief of childlessness, a search for happiness -- but it's also down-right, laugh-out-loud funny. As a fan of Southern fiction, I really enjoyed how this book manages to be uniquely Southern and yet universal in its themes and characters at the same time. This is just an amazing book, but especially so from a first time author. I hope she writes many more equally wonderful books.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A stunning fiction debut!, October 9, 2001

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Karen Johnson (from Tennessee & moving to Ga soon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A False Sense of Well Being (Hardcover)

I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of this new novel and it's absolutely WONDERFUL! The characters are funny and smart, and Jessie Maddox's desperate search for "well being" in her life takes some poignant and hilarious turns. Since that first experience with this story, I took the novel with me on a weekend trip to visit my parents and read it again, and enjoyed it all the more, learning even more about these complex and well drawn characters.

Three cheers for this new voice in Southern fiction! I'm an aspiring writer myself, and so the blurbs by the novelists Kaye Gibbons, Lee Smith, Anne Siddons, Terry Kay and Mary Hood (and others) caught my attention immediately and told me this was going to be a great read -- and the book did not disappoint. This one's going to be a bestseller, I just know it. Now I can't wait for a sequel of some kind -- because I want to know where Jessie goes from here. But whatever this new writer turns out in the future, I'll be watching and waiting!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Bored main character makes a boring book
Yawn. Skip this one unless you want to read a book about a bored, boring woman in a midlife crisis. She's got it all but can't be happy. Read more

Published 19 months ago by T. Foster

2.0 out of 5 stars Boring
After 60 pages, i got the idea already: she's bored with her husband and most of her life. maybe something more interesting happens later, but i stopped there.

Published on June 14, 2007 by jayday

2.0 out of 5 stars A False Sense of A Good Book...
I probably should of listened to the reviews I read on this book before I started it. Most people here didn't care much for it, but I thought it sounded like great southern... Read more

Published on October 27, 2005 by Mercedes L. Johnmeyer

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely Southern Fiction
This lovely novel is laughing out loud funny, yet touching. It is beautifully plotted, as the narrator/protagonist gradually clues us in and our view of her reality changes... Read more

Published on May 31, 2005 by Omnivorous Reader

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Enough For Me
I like this genre of book- middle-age woman suddenly finding herself lost in life & begins exploration. Read more

Published on January 4, 2005 by Leigh A. Taft

1.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly Disappointed
I had a very difficult time getting into this book. The characters were shallow, the plot undeveloped, and overall a complete waste of time. Read more

Published on December 2, 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars Aptly Titled!
I had real trouble with this book, unable to commit to any of it until way past the middle of it. I kept saying to myself that I was wasting time reading about these thoroughly... Read more

Published on September 4, 2003 by Octoberflybaby

4.0 out of 5 stars Well Written and Aptly Titled
This is a book for southern women who miss the south, and for those of us not from the south, but who moved there and were embraced by southern women. Read more

Published on August 13, 2003 by Barbara Bell

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
I finished this book in one evening. It flows. The characters are developed and tied together wonderfully. Read more

Published on April 8, 2003 by J. Green

5.0 out of 5 stars compelling view of woman's struggle with sterile marriage
Perhaps all one needs to know about the beauty and quiet brilliance of Jeanne Braselton's debut novel, "A False Sense of Well Being, is that Kaye Gibbons, a national treasure... Read more

Published on March 23, 2003 by Bruce J. Wasser

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I was married eleven years before I started imagining how different life could be if my husband were dead. Read the first page

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one lady owner, green duck

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Randolph Gap, Andy Leonard, Donna Lindsey, Bay Island Hotel, Sister Inez, Lincoln Town Car, Glenville Meadows, Perry Ferguson, All Saints, Glenville Wellness Center, Inez Sneed, Glenville Memory Gardens, Shadowwood Lane, Lamar Hamby, First Glenville National Bank, Fletcher Calhoun, Frank Daniels, Glenville Society Cotillion, Melvin Spivey, Black Warrior River, Cracker Barrel, Glenville News-Tribune, Heritage Knoll, Lawn Doctor, Red's Tavern

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