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Betsy's Wedding Details Date : Published March 31st 1996 by HarperTrophy (first published 1955) ISBN : 9780064405447 Author : Maud Hart Lovelace , Vera Neville (Illustrator) Format : Paperback 260 pages Genre : Classics, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Childrens Download Betsy's Wedding ...pdf Read Online Betsy's Wedding ...pdf Download and Read Free Online Betsy's Wedding Maud Hart Lovelace , Vera Neville (Illustrator) PDF File: Betsy's Wedding... 2 Read and Download Ebook Betsy's Wedding... From Reader Review Betsy's Wedding for online ebook Heidi-Marie says Yay!! Betsy and Joe finally marry and we get to see the first 3 years of their married life. I enjoyed every bit of it. A wonderful book to end a great series. Favorite parts: Joe. :-) Betsy's experience of Aunt Ruth coming. Tacy being a mother! The "reunions" of The Crowd. Betsy learning to be a homemaker. Tib finding a husband. Hmm--I guess that makes it the whole book, huh? 2/17/16-2/20/16 Reread! What a perfect book to re-read, especially when no other books are tempting. I had read a bit about what was Maud's real life, so I enjoyed knowing that as I read through this time. So much love for these characters and their experiences. I enjoyed this even more after recently going through my Goddess weekend--this book fits that perfectly! Kricket says in which betsy comes home from europe and marries jooooooooe!! and they buy a cute little house. and try to set up tib with a new york millionaire. and join a writing group and sell their stories to magazines. and aunt ruth moves in with them. (i love this part. i love how betsy didn't want it to happen but she knew that joe wouldn't be joe unless he took care of his aunt, and it all turned out ok!!) and america goes to war. it is so interesting to me how different the attitude was towards worlds wars I & II compared to wars our country fights today. i'm so sad that the series is done. Jennifer Margulis says Betsy is coming home from her visit around the Great World (her father sent her to Europe in the hopes it would help expand her horizons and train her as a writer). All she can think about is Joe. And there he is, cane in hand, hair so blonde it's almost silver, meeting her at the boat. This Betsy-Tacy novel is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. In many ways Joe is the perfect husband. Adoring, ambitious, kind. But in other ways married life is not easy. Joe gets into dark moods. And when he is feeling blue he almost forgets that Betsy exists. Betsy, as usual, has challenges of her own. She is so self-centered and self-absorbed that she forgets to open her heart to Joe's aunt when she needs her most. A visit to church sets her on the right path and Joe's aunt living with them while she is grieving the loss of her store ends up being one of the best thing that happens to the young couple. PDF File: Betsy's Wedding... 3 Read and Download Ebook Betsy's Wedding... Tacy has a baby and an attentive husband. But Tib. Poor Tib. Diminutive, professional, impatient, gorgeous, Tib is tired of young men thinking she is dumb and easy because she is blonde and petite. She goes through a lot of trials in this book, as Betsy and Tacy hold their breath watching. Highly recommended. Sab says 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 comes home they will continue to write together, and publish, and be the authors they always knew they would be. (And since these stories are autobiographical, and since Maud and Delos Lovelace wrote many things together after the war, we can take comfort in knowing it's true.) Jess says BETSY AND JOE AND BETSY AND JOE AND YES. THIS WAS THE BOOK I WANTED. Maybe I will come back here later and write actual words. Or not. Because that's a pretty accurate reaction, honestly. Beth Bonini says 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 focus on Tib - and her two unsuccessful romances before she meets the 'right' one. The love, mutual respect and devotion of the Betsy-Joe marriage is such a great example to all of us. Somehow this book - indeed, the entire series - manages to be both realistic about life's challenges and sorrows, and yet also so full of human nature at its very best. An example which comes to mind is Betsy's reaction to having Joe's Aunt Ruth come to live with them during their first year of marriage. Her initial resentment and inner resistance gradually gives way, and she has the reward of knowing that she has not only done the right thing - but she has gained from it in ways that she couldn't have imagined. I had to have a good cry after finishing this beloved book. What an absolute delight to read the entire series again after so many years. PDF File: Betsy's Wedding... 4 Read and Download Ebook Betsy's Wedding... Tacykelly says Elizabeth, I agree with you that this a bittersweet book. My buddy Betsy was all grown up and married. It is a sweet story and I love the struggles they face. I also belong to Shelfari and some of us started talking about the B/T books and how we discovered them. Shelley says 8/08: I love this book. It's the little details about the start of their marriage that just ring so true. I also love seeing Margaret all grown up - she became one of my favorite characters in this series. I would have loved to seen Betsy's Bettina written, though - I want more Betsy-Tacy! The "where did they go?" section at the end was awesome and fascinating. Some of the changes Maud made were very interesting - like Bick didn't marry Charley until 1920, which was ten years after high school and three years *after* Maud and Delos and Midge and Charles. Marked contrast to the books, where Tacy got married a handful of years out of high school, several years before Betsy, who was married a few years before Tib. I really need to track down Companions to this series and read more of the real events! Eliza says One of my favorite books EVER. If you haven't read any Betsy-Tacy, I advise you to start now. If you're not up for the "kid lit" that is the first 5 or 6 books, start with Heaven to Betsy and read on to the end. How I love Maud Hart Lovelace and would love to have been friends with her! Her semi-autobiographical character, Betsy, is one of the finest characters I have ever come across--a truly good person, loving, always wanting to be better and to be kind to others. Love Tacy too, of course, and Joe, and pretty much all the characters in all the books (except for Rocky and Phil Brandish of course). Sarah TheAromaofBooks says And here we have it–the long-awaited grand finale to the Betsy-Tacy books! Betsy’s Wedding fulfilled all of my desires for happy endings and brought everything together wonderfully. This book would probably be more appropriately titled Betsy’s Marriage, as the wedding takes place within the first couple of chapters. The only slightly unbelievable part of the entire story is that Betsy and Joe have been estranged for three years, and yet decide to get married within two weeks of being reunited. But still, more power to them! They settle down in Minneapolis, near Betsy’s family, and begin their life together, and it’s adorable and sweet and profound, just like the rest of the books. One that that has been incredibly annoying is that all the forewords of these beautiful new editions are invariably written by a rabid feminist who insists that Lovelace was a rabid feminist as well (apparently because she wrote about girls who were happy and not very good at cooking), so hopefully you will excuse me while I address a few of the issues raised on this topic.
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