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P.S.: What I Didn't Say

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I enjoyed this book so much that I'm buying two more as gifts. "P.S." also put me in mind of long time friends and pushed me to call my friend that I've know since 3rd grade. The stories are all different and wonderful in their own right. You'll enjoy the book!

After reading an excerpt from this newly published book in Good Housekeeping I decided to purchase the book. It has not let me down and I am halfway through. It is a collection of letters from various people. It is a book that you can read at your own pace and each letter is different. They are letters from various female writers and I have enjoyed all of them.

I'm very partial to this book, being a contributing author but have been blown away reading excerpts from all the chapters and grown to love each and every one. Happy reading!

Wouldn't say it's the worst book I ever read, but close. Letters are from one of two categories: love letters to great friends or hate letters to crappy friends. Lots of inside jokes and references included. It's like reading someone elses not terribly interesting e-mail. Save your money!

Great book! Inspiring and a quick read! Women of all ages can relate to the letters in this book. I decided to purchase after reading one of the letters about breast cancer survivors that almost made me cry at work!

Female friendships are some of the most wonderful, powerful, and sometimes complicated relationships in women's lives. Have you ever had something you wanted to say to a friend, but couldn't? Have you ever wished you could go back in time to say something you didn't? In P.S. What I Didn't Say, Megan McMorris brings together a collection of unsent letters written by a wide range of female writers to friends both current, past and deceased, covering, in the editor's words, "BFFs, frenemies, and everything in between."

From the touching The We of Me by Jacquelyn Mitchard about the kind of friendship that is so intense that it survives even a five year period of silence, to Kristina Wright's The Last Letter about a friendship with an older woman that took place almost entirely through letters, to McMorris' own contribution What Would Diane Do about the kind of true friendship that endures, P.S. provides a glimpse into the private thoughts and emotions of the writers. Each reader will, no doubt, find parallels to her own life - remembering the grade school friend who moved across the country, but still remains a vivid memory, or the college pal who has remained a trusted friend despite infrequent contact.

This book will help women better understand some of their own complicated friendships, and perhaps, provide the inspiration to get in touch with long lost, but not forgotten friends. It will definitely make the reader treasure her own friendships, and perhaps serve as a reminder that it's always better to say what you need to say while you still can, rather than wait until it may be too late. A beautiful compilation, this book should go on every woman's reading, and gift, list.

The friendships of women are important, powerful and complicated. Few friendships last forever and for even those that do, many feelings and experiences within the context of those relationships are not addressed, left unsaid. They are too painful to talk about or not fully understood at the time they occur. Time provides perspective.

P.S. What I Didn't Say is an anthology about women's friendships. Editor Megan McMorris has selected thirty-six letters to include in this collection. The letters, all written by different women, celebrate and examine past and current friendships from now older and wiser perspectives--from women who have been able to step away days or years later and look at their friendships with fresh eyes and clarity and speak open and honestly about how they felt then and now. Readers will find words, reflections and situations that resonate with them, as the letters reveal discovery of their selves and the relationships with their friends.

There are letters to childhood friends, friends who have died, and friends who might have been. There is also one letter from a writer to her past self, a warning about her addiction to fitness that will have dire consequences. The letters will make the reader laugh, cry, and reflect. The cathartic letters might leave the reader feeling she has a letter to write as well.

Some of the writers included in P.S. What I Didn't Say are Jacquelyn Mitchard, Diana Abu-Jaber, Jen Karuza Schile.

by Judy Miller
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women