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Title: Ladies with Options

Author: Cynthia Hartwick

Narrator: Barbara McCulloh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Larksdale ladies meet over coffee cake and crafts every Saturday morning. But one day, when they take a long, hard look at their finances, they realize they will be very poor in their old age. So they decide to become an investment club and earn enough for a more comfortable retirement. Their rise from modest investors to millionaires is an adventure that exceeds their wildest expectations. As the intrepid Larksdale ladies venture into the financial world, you'll be cheering them on with each surprising transaction.

Members Reviews:

Delightful and charming

Mix together a group of timid housewives and librarians, middle-aged and older, who live in a town in Minnesota that barely makes it on to the map, add some serious concern about their financial futures and see where the story leads. If you're lucky, you'll end up with LADIES WITH OPTIONS, one of the most charming books in decades.

When one of the librarians, rather belatedly, realizes that her pension barely will be enough for her to survive on, the other members of her "Mostly Methodist" club decide that they all must take action to secure their financial futures.

Though they're babes in the investment woods, they rally quite nicely with their first small investment. One thing leads to another and...well, read the book.

In the course of their marvelous adventures, the reader learns, almost as asides, the details of the characters' private lives and personalities. The reader also learns about the fine morality and strong values that make the Midwest the heart of the American nation.

Cynthia Hartwick has authored an endearing book which is touching and funny as well. All in all, LADIES WITH OPTIONS is a wonderful read.

Five Stars

Enjoyed the book.

Funny and Fast, but There's More

"Ladies with Options" breezes by with laughs on every page. Every character is an individual, and most are much like someone you've known, but the humor is never at their expense. Many of the laughs are in the way Sophia, the narrator, tells the story -- she's smart (a lot smarter than she lets on, in fact) and a little amazed at the unlikely success of the Larksdale Ladies Investment Club, for which she is the attorney. In some ways she's just along for the ride, but because her mother is a member of the club, she has more than just an attorney's view of the goings-on. She sees a group of rather conventional women growing into their new roles as stock market winners, and she sees how old ways of thinking begin to bend and break under the pressure of new ways of conducting their lives. The humor is not condescending, however. It is as if these ordinary people have had extraordinary abilities waiting to be released by new circumstances. The new circumstances are not an unmixed blessing, though, and marriages, friendships, and careers have to be adjusted. We see how even changes for the better can have unexpected consequences -- sometimes hilarious, but sometimes not entirely pleasant. Although you're never far from a quip or falling-down funny turn of events, you're also seeing real people cope with their own self-discovery. "Ladies with Options" is a funny book that reads in a whirlwind of good humor, but you'll also remember it for its lessons about the fast-changing world we all live in.

This was a FUN read

There are two of these books, Ladies with Prospects and Ladies with Options.