Comments on: Introducing: The Crazy Ladies of Oakwood http://www.ggvandagriff.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/ G.G. Vandagriff, Author Mon, 06 May 2013 15:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: La Reyna http://www.ggvandagriff.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-147 La Reyna Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:01:27 +0000 http://ggvandagriffblog.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-147 I fell in love with all four characters of your novel. Please develop them as well as expanding details about Oakwood, not to mention the shoppes and the clubs there. I’m a Dayton resident and I’m so proud that you’re writing about the fine ladies of Oakwood. Can’t wait to read its final script.

La Reyna

]]> By: Krista http://www.ggvandagriff.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-146 Krista Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:34:50 +0000 http://ggvandagriffblog.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-146 McKenzie, Roxie, Sara, Georgia. I already love the possibilities of the interplay of these women!

]]> By: Laurie LC Lewis http://www.ggvandagriff.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-145 Laurie LC Lewis Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:52:27 +0000 http://ggvandagriffblog.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-145 These are exquisitely rich characters with so much complexitiy that each makes the reader want to read on and unravel their lives. But I do think Georgia and McKenzie are the two more readers will find sympathetic, so I would lead and end with them. Mckenzie does have the most compelling opening, but Georgia’s closing lines probably echo most women’s self-doubts. So I’d open with McKenzie, then Sara or Roxie, and close with Georgia.

]]> By: Britt, Book Habitue http://www.ggvandagriff.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-144 Britt, Book Habitue Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:15:13 +0000 http://ggvandagriffblog.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-144 Whatever order the others are in, I think Georgia should be last. Her last sentence about the world already having caved in belongs at the end of those, I think.
I would probably say either McKenzie or Sara first. :D
Can’t wait to read more!!

]]> By: Aubrey Mace http://www.ggvandagriff.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-143 Aubrey Mace Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:59:20 +0000 http://ggvandagriffblog.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-143 McKenzie
Roxie
Georgia
Sara

I’m really excited to read this! I think I liked each woman more than the last, and when I went back and read it a second time, I couldn’t still couldn’t pick a favorite. :)

]]> By: Michele Bell http://www.ggvandagriff.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-142 Michele Bell Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:45:30 +0000 http://ggvandagriffblog.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-142 McKenzie
Roxie
Sara
Georgia
I don’t know why they interested me in that order, they just did. I am going to love this series. These women are fascinating and complicated and wonderful.

]]> By: G.G. http://www.ggvandagriff.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-141 G.G. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:14:54 +0000 http://ggvandagriffblog.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-141 Thanks, Cindy. You will be interested to know you agree with Heather Moore. She wanted McKenzie first as well. And your metaphor of the stew is very apt. I can’t wait to get going on this!

]]> By: C.S. Bezas http://www.ggvandagriff.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-140 C.S. Bezas Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:18:28 +0000 http://ggvandagriffblog.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-140 OK, I didn’t mean “slowly hooking” when I posted above. To the contrary, I think McKenzie’s hook is VERY efficient and immediate.

What I meant to say was that the melding together of the lives of these four women is somewhat like a savory stew…a slow and ever intensifying experience, building to a potent resolution at the end of the “meal”! :0)

]]> By: C.S. Bezas http://www.ggvandagriff.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-139 C.S. Bezas Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:15:30 +0000 http://ggvandagriffblog.com/10/2009/introducing-the-crazy-ladies-of-oakwood/#comment-139 Here’s my pick:

McKenzie
Sara
Georgia
Roxie

I feel that McKenzie’s opening sentence is compelling in its immediacy and familiarity with readers. Its intriguing and something that is relate-able … pulling you in and slowly hooking you into the lives, then, of not only McKenzie, but of all four of the other women!

I also feel McKenzie’s chapter’s second sentence states the premise of the book. It IS a scary, unpredictable world…when a person cannot see meaningful patterns in their existence. Your second sentence in her chapter I feel expresses the underlying premise being explored in the lives of these four women throughout the series. And just as most screenplays have the story question already firmly established by “page three/minute three” in the film, McKenzie’s chapter (with your two very succinct initial sentences) launches this whole book series very very nicely.

Beautiful work, GG!

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