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Summary: Not so smart women
Review: I gave this book four stars because it is a good read. The kind of book you can sit and read on the beach or a plane ride and not get bored. But, I must say the title "Smart Women" is not appropriate at all! I spent the whole book marveling at how dumb these women really are. The only females in the book who were smart were Margo's daughter and her boyfriends daughter. The adults are truly lacking. I could not believe that a woman in her 40's would have a boyfriend of two months move in with her and her teenage children simply because his lease was up. The other women in the book are just as desperate and live their lives in accordance to men just as Margo does, sleeping with whoever came their way. The teenage characters are truly the most interesting in the book. The story is flawed but Judy Blume is as ususal able to keep me engrossed.
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Summary: Fantastic all perspective views of situations
Review: I grew up on Blume books like "Superfudge" and "Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing". As a woman, I continue to grow when I read her adult books. She says what people always think but are too afraid to say. This gives you the opportunity to see what might happen if you did say exactly how you felt. (Gives you a little incentive, too!)Thumbs up on her approach of showing each key character's point of view on the same situations. It really helps you think about how other people percieve things differently than you do.
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Summary: Great Writer, Bad Story
Review: I have been huge fan of Judy Blume ever since the second grade (that makes it about 21 years). However, this is not one of her better books. Blume is an excellent writer, but there's really no story to tell here. I almost got the impression that she was making this up as she went along. This book does not do justice to Blume's true talents.
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Summary: Blume never stops surprising me!
Review: I loved this book just as much as Summer Sisters, which I finished in one day. Smart Women took me three days, but it was well worth it. The style is much different than Summer Sisters, but just as good. I hope Blume continues to write for older readers as well as younger ones!
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Summary: Smart Women
Review: I never really read and when I do I take my time to find a book I would enjoy to read. I had to find a book to read for an assiment and I choose this one by Judy Blume, I've read many of her books and so far this is one of her best. I didn't want to put it down. It made me think about a lot of things in life. I would tell many of my girl friends to read this book.
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Summary: Another good Judy Blume book.
Review: I recently finished "Smart Women", and I thought that it was a good book. However, I couldn't finish it as quickly as I did "Summer Sisters" and "Wifey"; the writing just didn't move as quickly. The book deals with the lives of two divorced acquaintances, named B.B. and Margo, who have relocated to Colorado after their divorces. Both women are trying to get on with their romantic lives, while raising their children. When B.B.'s ex-husband, Andrew, moves to town, and becomes interested in Margo, both women's lives become further intertwined. All the characters must now accept the new changes in their lives. I read the 1983 hardcover version of this book. Judy Blume's "Forever..." will be my next read.
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Summary: Another good Judy Blume book.
Review: I recently finished "Smart Women", and I thought that it was a good book. However, I couldn't finish it as quickly as I did "Summer Sisters" and "Wifey"; the writing just didn't move as quickly. The book deals with the lives of two divorced acquaintances, named B.B. and Margo, who have relocated to Colorado after their divorces. Both women are trying to get on with their romantic lives, while raising their children. When B.B.'s ex-husband, Andrew, moves to town, and becomes interested in Margo, both women's lives become further intertwined. All the characters must now accept the new changes in their lives. I read the 1983 hardcover version of this book. Judy Blume's "Forever..." will be my next read.
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Summary: Great read.
Review: I recommend this book to anyone. It really is a great web of stories of women that are all connected in some way or another in Boulder. They tell their stories compassionately and in an interesting way. It's hard to put this one down as are many of Judy Blume's books.
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Summary: Easily up to her very high standards!
Review: I suppose Judy Blume is mostly thought of as a "young people's author" and a "woman's novelist," but I've always liked her stuff and I've read a large part of it. Her narrative style is simple and straightforward; no fancy vocabulary, no scintillating imagery, just excellent storytelling. And she has a marvelous knack for characterization.
This one is about two quite different women who have fled bad marriages for quite different reasons and ended up with new lives in Boulder, Colorado. Margo is the generally sensible one, the mother of two teenagers. B.B. (as Francine is known in her new home) is the brittle one, the perfectionist, mother of an adolescent daughter -- and also of a son who was killed in an auto accident at the age of ten, . . . which none of her friends in Boulder know about. And then Andrew, Francine's ex, comes to town to try to spend more time with his daughter, and Francine sees his arrival as a plot to disturb her carefully managed life. And then Andrew meets Margo, and things begin to get *really* complicated. Margo is a very likeable character, and so are her two kids, and so is Sara, the uneasy and very vulnerable daughter whom B.B. so dominates. And so is Andrew, for all his occasional blue-sky daydreaming, which sets Margo's teeth on edge. B.B., a real piece of work who has pretended about everything all her life, is much less easy to sympathize with, even when she has a breakdown -- which Blume describes in a completely convincing series of scenes. This book would make a terrific film!
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Summary: Easily up to her very high standards!
Review: I suppose Judy Blume is mostly thought of as a "young people's author" and a "woman's novelist," but I've always liked her stuff and I've read a large part of it. Her narrative style is simple and straightforward; no fancy vocabulary, no scintillating imagery, just excellent storytelling. And she has a marvelous knack for characterization.
This one is about two quite different women who have fled bad marriages for quite different reasons and ended up with new lives in Boulder, Colorado. Margo is the generally sensible one, the mother of two teenagers. B.B. (as Francine is known in her new home) is the brittle one, the perfectionist, mother of an adolescent daughter -- and also of a son who was killed in an auto accident at the age of ten, . . . which none of her friends in Boulder know about. And then Andrew, Francine's ex, comes to town to try to spend more time with his daughter, and Francine sees his arrival as a plot to disturb her carefully managed life. And then Andrew meets Margo, and things begin to get *really* complicated. Margo is a very likeable character, and so are her two kids, and so is Sara, the uneasy and very vulnerable daughter whom B.B. so dominates. And so is Andrew, for all his occasional blue-sky daydreaming, which sets Margo's teeth on edge. B.B., a real piece of work who has pretended about everything all her life, is much less easy to sympathize with, even when she has a breakdown -- which Blume describes in a completely convincing series of scenes. This book would make a terrific film!
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