Wednesday Letters is a book about an old couple named Jack and Laurel who own a bed and breakfast. Jack is very sick and everyone knows he is going to die. But what comes as a shock is Laurel dies too. The funeral brings their three children Matthew, Samantha & Malcolm back together. Matthew is married and trying to adopt a child with his wife, Samantha is a cop who stayed in town, and Malcolm has been on the run from the law in Brazil for the past 2 years. The kids come across a bunch of letter that Jack has been writing to Laurel every Wednesday for their entire relationship. A devestating secret is uncovered while reading the letters.

I enjoyed this book. Its an easy read...280 pages. Too much religious talk for my taste though.

An honest portrayal of happiness, grief, anger, regret, love and redemption. This story covers and captures all emotions.

While this book is well written and has an interesting approach, I did not find it very satisfying. I enjoy a book more if I like the characters in it, and in this case, I found I hoped I never met some of them.The story line was predictable and with few surprises. It reminded me of the old soap operas on radio. This one will not remain on my book shelf.

Although I received this selection from Amazon a couple of weeks ago, I haven't read it through yet. It was recommended to me by a very good friend and member of our Red Hat PIPS Chapter Reading Group, of which I am co-hostess. Wednesday's letters will be our January selection and we are all looking forward to reading it. I've given it a cursory glance and can see that it's my type of book. Happy reading!

Highly recommend. It was a great read - and it had one of the best endings EVER.

The Wednesday Letters tells the story of Inn owners Jack and Laurel Cooper through letters that Jack wrote to Laurel every Wednesday through the years of their marriage.

When Jack and Laurel die in each others arms, the children are called home to make arrangements and while clearing out old boxes in the basement, they come across these letters. The lives of their parents are revealed to them and they discover one really big secret that will forever affect them all.

I started out liking this book but I felt that the ending was a little over the top. The reveal was too baffling to really believe. I like to read about happy endings as well, but I just couldn't relate to this one. I am all for being able to forgive someone, but this was too far fetched to be believed.

The letter idea however is a wonderful way to bring people closer. Every woman would love her significant other to do such a thing.

I cannot believe all the hype over this cheesy book. I have read plenty of books and this one was just so corny it made me want to wretch. I think a high school student could have written a better book. I understand this made the New York Times list, they have really lowered the bar. I was hoping the book would get better as I went along, no such luck. I also think that this story was a veiled attempt to promote
pro-life beliefs. Stupid and juvenille, it was like reading a Harlequin book.. A sheer waste of my time and money.

BOught this book while traveling. Was instantly captivated and hooked by the first 2 pages. However, I will say that I was disappointed in the last third of the book. I felt the plot line was just dropped - seemed as if the author had tired of it. The premise was so beautiful and poignant and every facet was coming along so beautifully, but it just went sour for me at the end. It also just got a little too "preach-y" for me with the religious faith stuff.

With all the sap promoting this book on its cover, one would think they're getting into a Tuesdays With Morrie type of book and I was enthusiastic about buying and reading a novel of this type. Well, after a few chapters into the book, I was gaining disappointment and boredom.

The story begins with the old couple dying in each others arms, the children have to come back to care for the funeral arrangements and of course there is the good child, the bad child and the caretaker child. The bad child has a long lost love in the picture too - more predictable drama.

The premise of the book, the letters, has a wide appeal. However, the children don't have time in the book's timeframe to read all of the letters, nor does the reader ever get a sense of the vast amount of letters there are stashed by their father. They start out reading some letters and then skip around to obtain some answers in the letters to questions recently raised.

I didn't care for the book overall. As I said - in my opinion it was a simple read, too predictable and uninspiring. It didn't make me want to start writing letters to my husband or vice versa. In the story, the letters did raise questions and then answer them however would it have been better to let "sleeping dogs lie"? If the parents were so upstanding and wanted the child to know his history, why hope it will be discovered through over 40 years of personal letters?

I wouldn't recommend the book. Too much like bubblegum.

A couple, married to each other for 39 years, having survived situations that would have been fatal to most relationships, die in each others arms. Their three children and an amazing assortment of family, friends and acquaintances whose lives they have touched gather together for their funeral. A cache of letters is found by their children and amazing revelations pour forth.

Not a bad premise for a book, sort of The Notebook meets Bridges of Madison County in the Shenandoah Valley. Some of the characters however, did not serve the story well. There seemed to be too many contrite, repentant, loving, accepting, and downright angelic people living in this town and they all loved and admired the deceased characters, a couple who lived their lives in a matter that could only be described as saintly. Malcolm and Nathan were probably the only exceptions and Malcolm came across as a man still behaving like a petulant teen-ager; while Nathan was the "get what you want no matter what the cost" villain of the piece.

This is not the best Christian lit book you will ever read, but it is certainly not the worst. The resolution of the story was a little too "and they all lived happily ever after" but then again the author was attempting to convey an inspirational tale of love and forgiveness.......and I, for one, have always been a sucker for fairy tales.

Wednesday Letters is a very interesting Christian based book. I really enjoyed reading this book. Good people with sound morals, making their way through this immoral world. Toward the end of the book, a specific event was just a touch too much, a bit unbelievable. The good news is, it does not take away from it's value as a well written, enjoyable read.

I read The Wednesday Letters in one day. I was grabbed by the end of the first page. I thought the character development was good, not great. And there was an ending. The author did an excellent job of not leaving the reader dangling with a lot of 'but what happened to...?'

Without getting into and giving away plot points, I guessed the main plot point within 2 chapters (small chapters) of the reveal. The reason to keep reading was to answer the question of how did the character get from there to here.

While I liked all the story lines being addressed and resolved, the ending was a little too clean for my taste, thus the 4 star rating instead of 5.

Comparisons to The Bridges of Madison County are fair, but the book greatly differs in the morality department. As much as I drank in Madison County, it never left my mind that adultery was at the core. This book allows the same insights but within the confines of a true and life sustaining marriage. A rare gem in this jaded world.

This started out as a great love story. Like many of you I was dreaming of getting my own Wednesday Letters. But there were too many holes in the story. What was the point of Nathan and there was no depth to the love story of Malcolm and Rain. The end turned too preachy with everyone being saved by the love of Jack and Laurel. I couldn't wait to get to the epilogue, a letter in an envelope neatly tucked on the back cover. It was not the warm and fuzzy feeling I was hoping for.
Linda C Wright
One Clown Short

Without a doubt, The Wednesday Letters is one of the most heart-warming novels I have read. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will keep you up all night until you get to the final page! The surprise epilogue is like the dessert at the end of a fine gourmet meal. I am a Jason Wright fan forever and am eagerly awaiting his next novel.

It was interesting mostly because I am from VA and found references a great remembrance...but even if not from VA it was well written and interesting. A little backwards from the normal books but clean...bring tissues!!