Rating: 
Summary: "SINGING IN THE" key of life.
Review: SINGING IN THE COMEBACK CHOIR is a novel that is based on one thing: how willing are we to forgive others who have wronged us and ourselves for holding on to those discretions. Maxine is handling a pressure cooker job on 'The Ted Graham Show', amist rumors of cancellation and putting up with the star's temper tantrums, yet she cannot find it within her heart to forgive her husband for his past infidelity. Ted Graham has the status to walk around like a king and use his celebrity status to attract the ladies, but cannot close the emotional canyon dug between him and his mother. Last, Lindy Walker, Maxine's Grandmother and former blues singer, has had to deal with racism, crooked management, and now, her failing health, but can't seem to conquer the guilt in her heart that surfaced after Maxine's mother died. In the end, all three come to realize that to hold on to the past can stagnate, but to forgive and move on can be very divine.
Rating: 
Summary: Singing in the Comeback Choir
Review: The development of Ms. Moore's characters is like a well written song. The depth of the characters is displayed consistently throughout this wonderful book; the emotions of the main characters are complex, and the hope for the future of the same characters leaves me longing for a sequel. I was able to revisit my grandmother and felt like I personally knew your characters. Write on Bebe, I loved your book. It reminds me of the YaYa Sisterhood, I want Moore, Moore, Moore!
Rating: 
Summary: Flat & predictable, can this be the same Campbell?
Review: The story is about Maxine, a black woman executive producer of a TV talk show who has a great life on the surface but is dealing with problems on several fronts. Her show is in danger of being cancelled. The grandmother who raised her, a famous singer from an earlier generation, has lost hope after she had a stroke. And she's still trying to forgive her otherwise wonderful husband Satchel for cheating on her. This book disappointed me. When I read Campbell's "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine," I became a fan of her ability to bring to life many and varied characters, drawing out their different points of view. I was especially impressed with the way she helped you to understand the most unsympathetic of characters. In this book, and to a lesser degree her last one, "Brothers and Sisters," the characters seem one-dimensional and flat. The story is fairly predictable and, when everything works out just grand in the end, formulaic and unbelievable. The dialog is stiff, even telegraphic, especially the phone calls between Maxine and Satchel when Maxine is visiting her grandmother. The book was easy to breeze through, but in the end, it wasn't very satisfying.
Rating: 
Summary: Wrong main character
Review: The story line is about Lindy not Maxine- hint the title of the book
Rating:
Summary: Singing In The Comeback Choir
Review: The writing was beautifully simple, the plot realistic and unique. Here's to intelligent Black fiction!
Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: This book is a must for all...for women who are going through situations and for men who are determined to keep their significant other...It shows how we must all bend, work together, and love unconditionally.
Rating: 
Summary: Waste
Review: This book is a waste of time and money. This book is predictable and unimaginative. Campbell is a talented writer, but this book was major disappointment. The book was so terrible, I couldn't finish it.
Rating:
Summary: Waste
Review: This book is a waste of time and money. This book is predictable and unimaginative. Campbell is a talented writer, but this book was major disappointment. The book was so terrible, I couldn't finish it.
Rating:
Summary: Heart for music shines
Review: This is the first novel I've read from Bebe Campbell and, once I read the first page, I never put it down. The undercurrent throughout the entire book that kept me connected was the love of, and transforming power of, music. Admittedly simplistic, I do believe the power of music can heal everything from a broken heart to a broken neighborhood.
Rating:
Summary: A True Come Back
Review: This is the second book I have heard on tape by Bebe Campbell Moore and I thought it was wonderful. She showed a true devotion to her career and her family. This book is a definite portrayal of how women struggle to balance their career as well as their personal life. I truly admire and respect how Maxine managed to juggle her career with the Ted Graham Show, overlook and stay with her once cheating husband, and take care of her long distant aging grandmother Lindy, all while being pregnant. I really loved how Lindy, as stubborn as she was, finally realized it is never too late to Come Back and be loved. Let's not forget how the once beautiful neighborhood, turn drug infested, managed to come together and clean up its act. Singing in the Come Back Choir is rich in character and in content. I just bought the book, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, by this author and can't wait to read it!
|
