Rating: 
Summary: Giving Her Another Chance
Review: The first novel I read by her was "The End Of Alice". I read it about seven years ago or so & swore I wouldn't read her again. (In fact, I couldn't even finish the book before I threw it out, considering to burn it!) But alas, my curiosity took over & here again, I am.
OK, I could get through this. It wasn't draw-dropping shocking to me as "...Alice", but interesting to say the least. My favorite thing about this book was its vast array of flawed characters. Yes, I was grinning & laughing at times at the hilarity of it all. Probably more because of how this story mocked ordinary, american life. I don't think any of us can read this & not be able to relate to it on some level.
I only gave it three stars mostly because of the end. I closed the book feeling down, depressed, & in need of a good scrubbing of my mind.
Then again, I surmise this is exactly what Holmes wants to achieve from this book.
Rating: 
Summary: She's done it again!
Review: Wow, what a clunker. Unimaginative and filled with the cliches of modern life in the cul de sac, where all children all sullen, all housewives lead lives of pill-fueled quiet desperation, and all husbands play hide the pickle with soccer moms.I could forgive the hackneyed themes if the writing itself were masterful but it wheezes along with the grace and wit of an upper-level land grant university literary seminar. The best thing about this book is that its memory won't linger with me for any longer than it takes for me to toss it in the dumpster.
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