With This Ring: A For Better or For Worse Collection [Paperback]

Lynn Johnston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 25, 2003 | Series: For Better or for Worse Collections

It was a big year for new relationships in the Patterson household. Wanting to avoid an elaborate, expensive wedding, Michael and Deanna married in secret and moved in together. Meanwhile, her mother continued to engineer a huge social affair, which threatened to upset an already delicate relationship between the two families. When Elly helped her reluctant daughter-in-law choose a dress, it brought them closer together-as confidantes and friends-and in the end, the wedding was beautiful. Meanwhile, Grandpa Jim began a slow, sweet courtship with Iris, whom he met at the Wednesday night Legion dance, and Elizabeth moved in with her boyfriend, Eric. She soon suspected he was not her knight in shining armor, and Anthony, the boy Elly and John always hoped Elizabeth would marry, becomes engaged to someone else.

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About the Author

Born in Collingwood, Ontario, For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston was the first woman to win the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1985. In 1992, she received the Society's Best Syndicated Comic Strip Award, and in 2001, For Better or For Worse was chosen as Comic of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine. Among her many previous books are Graduation: A Time for Change, which has sold nearly 40,000 copies; All About April, which has sold more than 25,000; and The Big 5-0, with nearly 50,000 copies sold. Lynn attended the Vancouver School of Art and now lives with her husband in Northern Ontario, Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (April 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740734121
• ISBN-13: 978-0740734120
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #459,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lynn Johnston lives in Corbeil, Ontario, Canada. She was the first woman to win the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1985. In the summer of 2008, she was inducted into the "Giants of the North," the Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars With this Ring....a Triumph!, May 20, 2003

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Eilonwyofllyr "eilonwyofllyr" (Newtown, CT United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: With This Ring: A For Better or For Worse Collection (Paperback)

Enter within and witness the saga of Michael and Deanna's wedding. For all of you who have lived through weddings as a bride, groom or immediate family, you will easily identify with all the wedding preparations, conflicts and joys. The only thing I regreted while reading it was how grown-up Michael has become. However, I just pulled out an older book by Lynn and revisited. But think....only a great author can make you care about characters so much that you hate to see them "grow up." Cheers to Lynn and please keep them coming!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!, May 17, 2004

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Meg "Livin la vida loca in Maine!" (Caribou, ME, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: With This Ring: A For Better or For Worse Collection (Paperback)

This has got to be one of the best For Better or For Worse books out there. The first part of the book begins with Lynn Johnston setting up the book, telling the backgrounds of Michael and Deanna, and what they went through to get to this point, which I think is an excellent way to begin. If you haven't read some of the earlier strips, this gives you all the background you would need. It also contained some information that would be good even for a die hard FBFW fan.

The book is in depth and contains all the strips from before and after the wedding. This would be a great present to give to someone who is getting married for a humorous take on the psychosis of getting married. Highly recommended!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not long enough..., October 22, 2006

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News Nut (Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: With This Ring: A For Better or For Worse Collection (Paperback)

I am a recent convert to the world of FBOFW, having really fallen in love with the strip when Michael and Deanne got married. I bought this booking wanting to learn more about this story arc. And while this book does cover a large portion of the story arc, covering a little before and during the wedding, I just which it was more complete. I would have loved to see only strips in the book that related to the wedding story arc. I also would have loved to see strips that led up to Michael and Deanne's courtship and Michael's proposal. In the world of FBOFW, there are two types of strips. The first is just some random joke, and the second is a strip that futhurs along a story arc that has been building, sometimes since the start of FBOFW. I wish this book only collected the 2nd types of strips, and did not have so much filler (the first type of strips.)

Don't get me wrong, this is a great book. I really love the "later" years of FBOFW, and am really looking forward to Liz's eventually marriage to Anthony. I just wish this collection was longer.