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A summer wedding stirs up trouble on both sides of the family in the newest bestseller from "the queen of the summer novel" (People)
The Carmichaels and the Grahams have gathered on Nantucket for a happy occasion: a wedding that will unite their two families. Plans are being made according to the wishes of the bride's late mother, who left behind The Notebook: specific instructions for every detail of her youngest daughter's future nuptials. Everything should be falling into place for the beautiful event -- but in reality, things are falling apart.
While the couple-to-be are quite happy, their loved ones find their lives crumbling. In the days leading up to the wedding, love will be questioned, scandals will arise, and hearts will be broken and healed. Elin Hilderbrand takes readers on a touching journey in BEAUTIFUL DAY -- into the heart of marriage, what it means to be faithful, and how we choose to honor our commitments.
- Sales Rank: #44457 in Books
- Published on: 2014-03-04
- Released on: 2014-03-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .84 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 432 pages
About the Author
Elin Hilderbrand has lived on Nantucket for twenty years. She runs every morning, delivers her children to their sporting events, and occasionally frequents the front row at the Chicken Box. Beautiful Day is her twelfth novel.
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77 of 81 people found the following review helpful.
Gag me with a spoon
By Niki BG
I usually love love love Elin Hilderbrand books but this one wasn't my favorite. The whole premise of the whole book, the Notebook (yes, with a capital N) turned me off right from the getgo. The idea of a dying mom writing advice to her daughter for her wedding day sounds nice in theory, but Hilderbrand's execution of this idea turned Jenna into a pushover who got talked into a total domination of her wedding by her saintly dead mother. We are expected to feel sentimental and gushy about this mother, but I couldn't stop thinking that if she had been alive and planning all these details, she would have been looked upon as an overbearing royal pain in the butt. I mean, she planned everything right down to the brand of knives Jenna should ask for in her registry to how the vegetables at the wedding (asparagus) should be cooked. In a couple places in the Notebook, the mother basically says stuff like "oh don't feel obliged to wear my wedding dress, but the thought of you in it makes me cry so much that I have to stop writing". Hello manipulation!
I also thought it was really unfair that Pauline got treated the way she did...the only thing I could tell that she did that wasn't so great (at least till the end) was read the Notebook without permission, but she was probably feeling so left out of everything that I really can't blame her. Essentially, she got punished just because she wasn't Beth. I felt sorry for her.
Also, I really didn't like it how Jethro kept getting referred to as "Ryan's boyfriend" throughout the book. All the other characters were introduced once by describing who they were in relation to the other characters, and then referred to by name for the rest of the book. For example, Beanie was called Beanie, not "Kevin's wife". I felt like Hilderbrand was trying make sure that we all knew that she included a gay couple in her cast of characters. I felt like she also stereotyped them, such as when Ann found some decent food in the fridge and it said that she assumed that Jethro and Ryan had been the ones to do the grocery shopping.
In addition to all that, I found this book pretty boring. Even the things that were supposed to be big dramas ended up being let downs. I seriously disliked Jenna's character - I thought she was a whiny spoiled brat. And sorta hypocritical - the book in general and the Notebook in particular mentions several times how Jenna is so wonderful because she doesn't care about material possessions or fancy things, and yet the book goes on to say that Jenna's wedding band cost $15,000 - $20,000 and her wedding was $170,000 - $180,000. I also couldn't figure out what sort of idiot finds Ann and Jim's story "romantic".
All in all, glad I read it. But it left me feeling sorta like I want to hurl.
48 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful Day, beautiful characters, beautiful book
By Pink Amy
I won a free arc copy of BEAUTIFUL DAY and was asked to give my honest review and I can honestly say, I loved it.
Jenna Carmichael and Stuart Graham are getting married this weekend in a wedding planned and orchestrated by Jenna's mother, Beth, who's been dead for seven years. When Beth was dying of cancer and realized she would not live to see her youngest daughter fall in love and get married, she wrote a Notebook (with a capital N), to help Jenna plan het wedding in Beth's absence.
Marriage is the central theme in this absorbing, well written novel. It seems like every marriage is on the brink of collapse from the groom's married, divorced, and remarried parents, to one of the newlywed bridesmaids, to father-of-the-bride Doug, currently in a loveless marriage to maid of honor, divorced Margot, who we met in the short story prequel THE SURFING LESSON whose ex is engaged to his Pilates instructor.
BEAUTIFUL DAY is told in multiple POVs, primarily Doug's and Margot's voices, with excerpts from The Notebook as well as outtakes from the wedding video, which give us a window into the personalities of minor and major characters. The only criticism I have, and this is minor, is that I appreciate when sections with different POVs have more distinct voiced.
The characters are rich, multidimensional. Family relationships and sibling rivalries are realistic in their complexity. I love Elin Hilderbrand's books, set on Nantucket and usually released just in time for summer. Each year her writing becomes richer, her characters have more depth, and her stories more compelling. I can't wait until next year
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Massively Disappointed
By Jacqueline R.
I am normally a huge fan of Elin Hilderbrand's books -- I usually find them fun, breezy and perfect for summer reads. But this one is atrocious -- I read through it because I try to finish books, but every second with this detestable group of characters was painful.
First, if the mother -- who authors the Notebook on which the wedding is dictated -- were alive, someone would have to scream at her. Beth's notebook is pretentious, materialistic and manipulative. She does not guide or suggest, she demands and maneuvers.
As a result, the second problem -- her daughter Jenna is a spoiled brat. But because we're supposed to love her, we are constantly being told by those around her that she is simply "the baby of the family" and not used to adversity. Yes, we called that spoiled.
Perhaps because of these two characters -- and several other women who are portrayed as beastly -- the book is hugely anti-woman. Another 1-star reviewer mentioned this, but the men in this book are forever being loved, forgiven or excused, as if they had no impact on what was happening around them. Not only are some of the women presented as almost literal gargoyles, but every mistake they make is magnified, while the men are placed on pedestals.
Finally, I appreciate a book about rich people as much as anyone, but the casualness of the wealth -- as if all of us could afford a $170,000 wedding if we just had a mother like Beth and if we just put our minds to it -- was a bit much.
All in all, just so very distasteful. But you know what -- I'll probably end up getting her next novel next year!
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