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| View Larger Image | Reconstructing Natalie
by Laura Jensen Walker
| | List Price: | $7.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 229252 | | Studio: | Thomas Nelson | | | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 368 | | Publication Date: | March 11, 2008 | | Publisher: | Thomas Nelson |
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Product Description
Natalie Moore is about to lose what little cleavage she has. She'll shave her head, leave her church, fall for a man in scrubs, learn to tap, and flash a roomful of women. Natalie needs to know with or without her breasts that she is more than the sum of her parts. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 35 reviews)
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It was almost a perfect 5. 
I almost gave this book a perfect 5. It really could have been a wonderful book. It was full of insight into breast cancer and it's survivors. It had great friends and an absolutely beautiful romance but I got hung up on one thing that really colored the rest of the book for me. The main character and her girlfriends were avid fans of (in my opinion) a very raunchy, long running sitcom. After learning that and afterwards, the references to the sitcom, the book just kind of lost steam for me...
September 02, 2008 | |
Did I read the same book as everyone else 
This book was just awful. There was not one character that I had sympathy for. Natalie was a brat and then she learned about the cancer and became even a bigger one. All the chracters were either one dimensional or stereotypical, and you saw what was coming with them a mile away. The token black woman in the book, I cannot believe the dialogue that was coming out of her mouth, and this woman was to be a lawyer. The only one of the trio of girlfriend that knew of any real work or independence was Merritt and she was the only one that and person can relate to. I guess when you are from an affluent, religious upper middle class family that is how you are suppose to act. This book deserved no stars at all.
January 31, 2008 | |
Wishing for the days when you used to stuff your bra 
Natalie has never really paid much attention to boobs before until she finds out that she may lose her own. Only 27 years old, she hears the dreaded words from her doctor that she has breast cancer. Determined to not let this get the best of her, Natalie prepares for what will be a life changing journey. Along with the support of her friends and family, she goes through the process of having to adapt to a world where survival means everything.
I have been extremely fortunate that I have not lost anyone close to me to breast cancer. However I know that there are thousands of people in the world who are affected by this and are suffering. This book perfectly balances the seriousness of the issue with lightheartedness to not make the story a downer. The writing is fun with lots of pop trivia sprinkled in, and is written in a chick lit tone of voice. I loved Natalie as a character. I admired her strength and her courage to be able to handle her situation with such grace and dignity. Some people would have seen how this affected her at such a young age as a death wish and given up hope for survival. She however, with her friends, is able to take everything one day at a time and enjoy life to the fullest. I loved the party her friends gave her before the surgery, especially the boob-cake. I was thinking this may be the one and only time I've read a Christian book that used the words boobs and breasts on every other page! I think it might also be one of the very few books where the main character gets topless of her own free will! This book showed how breast cancer affects not just the person with the cancer but everyone around them as well. I learned a lot from reading this book. I enjoyed the support group that Natalie attended especially the "show" she got from her first meeting! I was glad to read the information that men are also candidates for breast cancer as many people are unaware of this. This book is a book I would recommend every women to read. Not only is it informative but the story is engaging as well. This could happen to anyone and it's best to be aware and be knowledgeable in case the unthinkable happens.
November 16, 2007 | |
Reconstruction doesn't always mean physical
I love the way Ms. Walker intertwined Natalie's physical reconstruction with her emotional and spiritual reconstruction. It was a fabulous story. I loved the ending where . . . What! Did you think I was going to ruin it for you? Nah, I wouldn't do that to you. If you've read any of Ms. Walker's other novels you'll like "Reconstructing Natalie"
November 07, 2007 | |
Surprisingly AWESOME!!!
I am not obsessed with breasts. Well, I have a pair, you know. Have for almost 39 years, though they have changed over the years. From small, to perky, to, let's just say, larger, to sagging to my knees after 4 pregnancies, 48 months of breast feeding (12 per child ONLY...), and let's just call a spade a spade - a few too many pounds added on here and there.
On the up side, I have not named them, my breasts that is, I have indeed named my kids. And I do not ever refer to them in the third person, again, my breasts.
I have also been blessed not to have ever been diagnosed with breast cancer. At least not yet, though none of us ever know what path lies ahead of us.
So I wasn't sure what I was going to think of Laura Jensen Walker's latest fiction book Reconstructing Natalie since it was about a main character, Natalie, who is diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoes a mastectomy.
Let me just say outright that THIS IS TRULY ONE OF THE MOST UPLIFTING, HUMOROUS, AND ROMANTIC STPRIES I HAVE READ.
Reconstructing Natalie is full of humor and honesty, friendship and faith, and yes, even romance.
This pink book packs a punch of joy - and you should get your hands on Reconstructing Natalie and see for yourself what Cherries boobilee!
Trish Berg
Author, Book Reviewer, Mother, and most days, Sanity Seeker!
www.trishberg.com
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