Rating: 2.5 Stars (Rounded down to 2)

This book was for our fourth Women of Washington Oaks (WoWO) Book Club meeting.

We won copies of this book from BookMovement.com, this is a fabulous site for book clubs, it's a great resource and they have lots of great giveaways! So thank you very much to Pauline from for notifying me that I won the books and hosting the giveaway. A big thank you goes to Jennifer Justice at Endicott & Hugh Books for sending the copies for the group to read.

Being that we won the copies of book, the WoWo's were very excited to read the book and discuss it and really wanted to love the book. But sadly several of us (4 to be exact) had trouble getting through the book, and started to skim to the end or completely stopped reading all together.

The story was a nice story but several of us felt that some of the story lines went too far and others didn't go anywhere at all.

Some of the favorite characters were:


Sam
Lena
Martha Jane

The discussion was very light on this book and although Peggy had a lot to say about the book, no one else could really answer the questions posed due to having trouble following the story or not being able to finish. I believe this to be mostly due to not being able to related to the characters and what they were going through. The storyline was not bad, however many of us felt that it was a bit dry at times and it was hard to hold our interest.

As we always try to do, we had something book related at the meeting. Since the book has painting as a major element of the history of the main characters, this time we had a canvas and paints. The WoWO painted a picture, inspired by the love ceiling's front cover with our own WoWO twist (you can see this at http://faithbookluvr.blogspot.com/2010/05/wowo-book-club-meeting-and-love-ceiling.html)

The Love Ceiling was a nice beach read, but it left me feeling disappointed. There was very little escapism in the story; it felt very grounded, and almost mired down in reality. The two main female characters' journeys were predictable and anti-climatic. The story built up the drama, only to have a disappointing resolution. There were however, some touching moments throughout the book and it certainly kept me turning the pages.