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Summary: Smart Women
Review: The book Smart Women by Judy Blume deserves three stars. It deserves three stars for many reasons. This book has a lot of good and bad qualities. One of the good qualities is that it tells you how it is on being divorced. One of the bad qualities is that it starts out to be a little dry and boring. This book is about women who are divorced and have been for many years. They try to regain their lives and to have the social lives that they once had. Clare, B.B., and Margo are struggling to get through life and finish raising their children. These women go through all of life's tragedies that happen to them after they think they have been through it all. The book deserved three stars because it is not a book for everyone. People who have been through a divorce or are going to get a divorce would best read this book. This book may also be read by teens who parents are about to go through a divorce or are going through one. It may help them cope with this situation if they are having trouble.
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Summary: Not So Smart Women
Review: The title "Smart Women" is a falsehood. While the women in the book may have been smart in the business sense, they displayed absolutely no intelligence in the choices they made in their personal lives. I am disheartened to find a book titled "Smart Women" depicting divorced women as dependent and self-absorbed, placing their own needs above responsibilities as role models in the raising of children. The children seemed to have more maturity and insight than the women in the book. This was the first Judy Blume book I have read, and it will be the last. Many women of divorce exhibit much more maturity and intellect than those depicted in this book.
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Summary: Smart Women
Review: The title of this book is all wrong. Rather than make the women in this book appear smart, Judy Blume has done an excellent job of making the women weak and stupid. Why must Margo's self esteem be associated with having a man in her life? And to allow her friend's ex-husband move in with her? Is there no honor among women? Oh, but, she justifies it by saying that "he makes her feel good". B.B. has a nervous breakdown - more like post-traumatic stress disorder, but not before she marries a dude old enough to be her kid's Grandpa. (She can't stand to be alone!) Claire takes back the jerk who left her for a fling with another women. And he still doesn't seem very sincere about being with her. Can't these women see that their children should come first? Second should be their own self-dependence. Take care of the children and then make a stable home life before you start trolling around for a man. These women are not Smart Women, they are just plain S-T-U-P-I-D!
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Summary: Stupid Women!
Review: The title of this book is all wrong. Rather than make the women in this book appear smart, Judy Blume has done an excellent job of making the women weak and stupid. Why must Margo's self esteem be associated with having a man in her life? And to allow her friend's ex-husband move in with her? Is there no honor among women? Oh, but, she justifies it by saying that "he makes her feel good". B.B. has a nervous breakdown - more like post-traumatic stress disorder, but not before she marries a dude old enough to be her kid's Grandpa. (She can't stand to be alone!) Claire takes back the jerk who left her for a fling with another women. And he still doesn't seem very sincere about being with her. Can't these women see that their children should come first? Second should be their own self-dependence. Take care of the children and then make a stable home life before you start trolling around for a man. These women are not Smart Women, they are just plain S-T-U-P-I-D!
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Summary: Grrrrreat!
Review: This book is great and Judy Blume should write adult novels more often. There are scenes in this book which are incredibly steamy and passionate. It's also a book about second chances.
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Summary: Smart Women
Review: This book is so boring. I read Wifey first and just loved it. fast and exciting. So I got Smart Women next. What a waste of money.I had to force myself to finish it.Come on Judy, we want the spicey stuff like "Wifey".
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Summary: Blume Never Disappoints!
Review: This book is very emotionally satisfying. Margo is a very likable person, and you'll find yourself rooting for her and Andrew to find real happiness together -- despite interference from their children and ex-spouses. An excellent book for kids (older kids) to better understand their parents' divorce, as well as for parents to better understand their kids' perception of "the new person in Mom's life." The children are portrayed with sympathy and compassion. Judy Blume is a master at exposing TRUE human emotions. No other writer even comes close.
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Summary: judy's best one yet
Review: this is my second time reading Smart Women. i love this book and i love the characters. i wish judy blume would write more adult novels. i can't wait to read summer sisters.
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Summary: Only if You're Bored
Review: This is not a good book; it's rather boring, actually. Though one is supposed to feel immense sympathy for the protagonists, it is almost impossible to do. The characters are not likeable, at all. B.B. is too cruel, self-centered, and deluded; Margo cannot stand up for herself, even when her happiness could depend on it. That a mother would not lock her 15-year old daughter in the attic to stop her from having an affair with a grown man is laughable at best, morally skewed at worst. Read, "Wifey", Bloom's far superior adult novel. With this: read it only if you're a big fan of Judy Blume, can afford to waste money, and are bored out of your mind with everything else.
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Summary: A great read!
Review: What a wonderful book. I became a fan after Summer Sisters and this book is just as good! I recommended it to all my personal friends and you too!
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