Maud Hart Lovelace
Paperback | Pages: 260 pages Rating: 4.31 | 4282 Users | 178 Reviews
Identify Books As Betsy's Wedding (Betsy-Tacy #10)
| Original Title: | Betsy's Wedding |
| ISBN: | 0064405443 (ISBN13: 9780064405447) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Betsy-Tacy #10 |
Narration Supposing Books Betsy's Wedding (Betsy-Tacy #10)
Betsy returns from Europe to marry Joe Willard—and soon learns that beloved friend Tacy is expecting a baby! It's wartime in America, but Betsy, Joe, and their wonderful circle of friends brave their hardships together.List Regarding Books Betsy's Wedding (Betsy-Tacy #10)
| Title | : | Betsy's Wedding (Betsy-Tacy #10) |
| Author | : | Maud Hart Lovelace |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 260 pages |
| Published | : | March 31st 1996 by HarperTrophy (first published 1955) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Young Adult. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Childrens |
Rating Regarding Books Betsy's Wedding (Betsy-Tacy #10)
Ratings: 4.31 From 4282 Users | 178 ReviewsWrite Up Regarding Books Betsy's Wedding (Betsy-Tacy #10)
Rereading the last book in a beloved favorite series, this is the one about what it's like for Betsy to be a newlywed. The brief honeymoon, their first home, furniture shopping and cooking disasters. Betsy and Joe are obviously in love. As much as this is Betsy's story, it is also Tacy and Tib's. Especially Tib, it is her story of being a single working girl in Minneapolis. She goes out dancing; she dates but cannot find Mr. Right. Being the good friends they are, Betsy and Tacy who is now aJust wonderful. I'm so glad to have read this series this year. So so glad.
Betsy comes home from Europe to a whirlwind marriage with her soulmate, Joe Willard, at long last. And they move into a cozy apartment, where Betsy Ray finally learns to cook, and they encourage one another with their writing, and send stories to magazines that sometimes even sell! Meanwhile Joe works at the newspaper, money's tight, Tacy's raising her son and Tib, as always, is flitting around to wherever the fun's at. And in the end, Joe goes off to fight in World War I, promising that when he
I cannot think of any other fictional series that carries the main characters from childhood (five years old) to marriage and settled adulthood. There is something immensely satisfying about this progression, although Betsy-Tacy love and devotion being what it is, I think that most of Lovelace's fans will agree with me: I wish there were at least one more novel! We have to look to Lovelace's own life to know what happens next.One of the things that I truly appreciated about this novel was the
"Joe sat up in bed, and Betsy told herself that she must never allow him to wear any pajamas but blue ones."It's been less than a year since I last read this, but with Maud's writing that doesn't matter. This book only gets better and better for me and I continue to revel in the "rightness" of Betsy and Joe together. 3-3-09 review:"After a while he went back to the bacon." Chose to re-read this in honor of my sister's wedding. The older I get, the more I treasure it. It's inspiring and just
A great end to a beloved series!
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