I loved this book! It is set in the 1930's along the ocean in Rhode Island and tells of the love story of Lily Dane and Nick Greenwald. The story flips between 1932 when they first met to 1938 when they meet again. This book sort of reminded me of an old movie...a little sappy, a little dramatic but very tender and loving. It is a perfect summer beach read!

Lots of people are calling this a good " beach " or " summer read" and I agree. Set in the 1930's on the Rhode Island coast, it is a romance with lots of twists and turns and a glimpse of high society at a time when everything seemed to be a scandal. I liked the main characters Nick, Lily , and even Budgie (who gets to be the one we're not supposed to like) . It was an interesting time period , and I kept thinking of my grandmother who was part of this generation when women's lives were so diffe...

4.5 stars!Another great historical fiction by Beatriz Williams. Though set in some of the same time period as Along the Infinite Sea ( my first novel by her that I read a couple of weeks ago ) it covers a completely different place and a different occurrence in history. This covered the great New England hurricane of 1938, set in the fictional oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island.Summer 1938 : Lily Dane has just returned to Seaview with her family expecting another placid summer season

I picked up Beatriz Williams' A Hundred Summers with a lot of expectations, owing to all the things I read about it. Maybe I should have not heeded to the word going around after all.Seriously the first thought that came to me after I had finished the hideousness that is this book was what the hell are people raving about? It was a task in itself not to be tempted to throw my kindle while I was reading this book. The book oscillates between 1931/2 and 1938 told from the POV of Lily Dane the book...

Buddy read with AlexaThis book has been on my shelf for years and I'm so thankful that I finally picked it up because it was such a pleasure! While we were reading, Alexa pointed out that it's basically Gossip Girl but set in the 1940's and I couldn't agree more. I loved the setting which was part Rhode Island beach town and part New York City. I also enjoyed the dual timelines which I'm learning seems to be a thing in historical fiction. The story spans over a bunch of summers and recounts Lily...

I love books dated back in the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s etc and this one really made me feel like I was back in the 30’s. Loved this from beginning to end. Highly recommend!!

A good read for hot summer days. Family secrets, inter-family entanglements, first love and the inevitable heartbreak that follows, make up this romance set in the 1930s. The wealthy with old money summering at the beach, their hypocrisies and prejudices in full view, makes an interesting subplot. Even with Mother Nature lending a hand, the ending was predictable. Overall a solid four stars.

A Hundred SummersByBeatriz WilliamsMy"in a nutshell" summary...An oceanfront community, a scandal, secrets and the scorching summer sun...OMG...this has the ingredients for an amazing summer book!My thoughts after reading this book...It certainly does not take long to totally fall in love with this book. I loved Lily from the start and was totally suspicious of Budgie immediately. A book is always fun when there is a sort of obnoxious bad girl who is overpowering the more quiet lovely girl...no

I've spent a lot of time lately going through Beatriz Williams books. Luckily did I have a lot of them available as audiobooks. Like this one. It's a pure joy listening to Williams books. In A Hundred Summers are we introduced to Lily Dane who has returned to the summerhouse at Seaview, Rhode Island. However, her peaceful summer is interrupted when Nick and Budgie Greenwald arrives. The couple has just married and they are there to restore Budgie's family's old house. Lily and Budgie used to

Terrible. Bad. Awful. Resist your urge to identify this book as your 2013 beach read and just walk away. Terrible, impatient character development. You can't even begin to figure out why the two, main female characters - Lily and Budgie - ever became friends, much less had a conversation. Contrived plot developments. I read "Tigers in Red Weather" last summer and was looking for something similar for August - this ain't it. I left this book on the shelf at a vacation house we rented - and felt b...

Well, this is another book that I wanted to like and it just did not work for me. It started off fine, alternating chapters between “the present” (1938) and “the past” (1931), telling the story of Lily Dane and Nick Greenwald’s ill-fated love affair in 1931 and Lily’s present day (1938) heartache when she learns that Nick and his wife, Lily’s former childhood best friend Budgie, are summering in the same resort town as Lily. As a fluff-tastic beach read, I suppose this novel is fine, but there w...

Really loved this book. It is admittedly a little sappy, schmaltzy, and a little contrived, but it is also a fantastic beach read for those of us who love the 1930's. It felt like my favorite old black and white movies, and I would love to see this made into a movie. Great read.

The cover of A Hundred Summers immediately reminded me of Tigers in Red Weather, a book that both made me cringe and feverishly read to the end. The descriptions sounded relatively similar too, and so I was in no particular hurry to get started on this one. After having it in my purse for a few days, I finally picked it up on the subway ride home and was transfixed. For the first time, in a long time, I was savouring the taste of the words on my tongue rather than racing to the finish line. Ther...

I don't know about you, but I rarely have truly visceral reactions to books. I obviously love reading and get really excited about them sometimes, but I can't remember the last time that I was so thrown by a plot twist that I've reared back in my chair, shouted creative expletives, and slapped something. I got to a certain point in A Hundred Summers, though, and that's exactly what happened. I had to slap something. (view spoiler)[Graham gettin' it on with the teenage neighbor? (hide spoiler)]

This was a really hard one to rate. On the one hand, I was really entertained the whole time and couldn’t put the book down. I tend to love fiction set in the 1920s-30s, and I couldn’t get enough of the glitz, fashion, etc. On the other, the characters weren’t believable, and neither were their motivations or actions, and the obstacles and resolutions/twists were...obvious but yet completely ridiculous? And zero character growth. The story alternates between 1931-1932 when Lily and her best frie...