Everything You Need to Know About Being a Woman Can Be Learned in the Garden
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Plot Summary of Everything You Need to Know About Being a Woman Can Be Learned in the Garden

"Ms. Fish, a resident of Pasadena, Maryland, uses her unique sense of humor to introduce us to the Hillery Beach Garden Club. This group of middle-aged, suburban woman has had it with all the female advice gurus and self-help books. They believe that only women with considerable experience should be dispensing such advice. With their combined wisdom of 1,070 years, they are sure that they know it all and begin to compose the ultimate self-help book. The Hillery Beach Garden Club begins each thoughtful chapter with a story/vignette from their own ecogarden that, according to them, illustrates the chapter subject. Then they present the highlights of their chapter discussions for the reader to digest and to become ,so the women assume, a more enlightened female. The women wrap up each chapter with their conclusions, which do not, to the surprise of the reader, quite align with the chapter subject.

As the reader delves into the stories of dogs, cats, flowers, squirrels, birds, and humans, she will also become immersed in the interesting little dramas and personalities of the Hillery Beach Garden Club itself. The reader
will be most amused as the women attempt to bring their book to fruition, against all odds. While the stories of the ecogarden prove heartwarming and most enlightening, it is the funny and insightful discussions of the women
which provide an even greater wisdom.
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Patricia Fish, Resident Scholar

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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Animal story Yes
Kind of animal: - dog - bird - cat
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - homemaker
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - society

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 4 (a fair amount)
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - impregnation/reproduction
Unusual Style: - No single main character? - written like a journal/diary/letters
Is this an e-book? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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