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 What a Story! Nov 20, 2009
This is a great story of two very different people, meeting in an unlikely way. It is a story of strength and wekness ans a story of learning at the heart level. Cathie Beck has done a stunning job on her break-out book. Just look forward to the Jamiaca-Cuba experience as two worlds collide and then meld into depth of friendship. I was fortunate to find this book.
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Womanly Wisdom, Womanly Folly Oct 30, 2009
Cathie Beck's Cheap Cabernet is a rollicking ride through the last three decades with a young single mother who suddenly finds herself free to find herself at the ripe age of 38. Connecting with the eccentric outrages of her friend Denise, the two become adventuresses in the hip city of Boulder, Colorado. Cathie discovers her writing talent as well as her denial of her friend's serious illness.
Beck's writing snaps and crackles, constantly moving us forward and backward through vivid scenes punctuated with jazzy dialogue and poignant description. The protagonist develops her sass along with her empathic intuition as she sees the inner strength of her best gal pal hover at the edges of her own envelope-pushing.
It's a heart-raking, heart-breaking tale, rich and dense with as much womanly wisdom as womanly folly. A coming of age American story or art as life and life as art, I recommend it without reservation. Cheap Cabernet is the kind of book you don't want to end and may stay up all night to finish.
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WOW - Friendship at its best! Oct 26, 2009
Cathie Beck has managed to wrap all the indelicacies of a life-threatening illness with the wit and wisdom of hard-won life experience to form a graphic and enticing tale of real-life friends out to conquer their inner and outer worlds. And she succeeds. Her unique voice - witty, sarcastic, sharp and touching - leads the reader of Cheap Cabernet: a memoir on a roller coaster ride of emotions. I read this book so fast I almost got whiplash. She portrayed friendship in all its gut-wrenching realness, never forsaking truth for editorial ease or comfort. I am grateful for her honesty and I'm sure both she and Denise were deeply and positively impacted by sharing a bit of their lives with each other. Read Cheap Cabernet if you want to know what friendship can be about if we're strong enough to let go of fear.
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Cheap Cabernet is FUN! Oct 20, 2009
I enjoy a broad range of writing styles and storytellers, but rarely do I pick up a tale I can relate to as much as I have Cheap Cabernet. My years in New Orleans were shared with an alcoholic friend dying of liver disease, and like Denise, this woman taught me much about the business world and people in general. My friendships with Boulder area women have taken me to many of the locales Cathie and Denise frequented. The depth of their relationship reminds me of the strength of friendhips I still share with women I have met through the years. I laughed, I cried, and I thought long and hard of my experiences with friends throughout my life. I felt deeply as I experienced Cathie & Denise' adventures. Buy this book and share it with your forever friends. I certainly will!!
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A great read! Oct 08, 2009
It's not often that I take the time to post a book review, but I wanted to chime in with my heartfelt praise for Cathie Beck's delightful and poignant memoir. She doesn't hold back anything in her story of this surprising friendship and the way two people impacted each others lives. This book is for anyone who'd like to know more about the soul-sharing that allows a real relationship to enrich your life! I think it took a lot of courage to be so honest about details that surely were painful to relate and perhaps embarrassing at times to admit -- but it is Cathie's unflinching honesty (and sense of humor about her own failings) that makes this book such a warm and satisfying read. I highly recommend "Cheap Cabernet: A Friendhsip." You won't be disappointed.
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