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Summary: a chick lit book with more "lit " and less "chick"
Review: i read a review of this book over a year ago and i'm sorry i didn't read it sooner. this woman is a fantastic writer! her writing is so clear, concise, poetic. her characters, so finely drawn. i know these women...i am these women. andrea, where have you been? i have been to italy and i could see, smell and taste the places and experiences ms. lee was describing. i am also in an interracial relationship, and too, had to endure the looks, the whispering and "set a few island women straight" on trips to the carribbean. i understand that feeling of being everywhere and no where. i have read countless books in the last few years devoted to the female genre, or the "chick lit "market and have been gravely dissappointed to the point where i wanted the author themselves to give me my money back.
ms. lee, my 22.95( canadian) is all yours!
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Summary: Self-indulgent
Review: The author needs to get over herself. In a world full of poverty and suffering, I found the author's insights boring and self-indulgent. I am amazed this book got published and sells. There must a lot of rich, middle class women with a lot time on their hands to buy and read this book.
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Summary: best book i've read in a while
Review: This book is great! The writing is suburb--dense but not too "much" for before bed or vacation reading. Her female characters are so well drawn. They are smart, self aware but never self-indulgent and annoying and the tone is great and the themes--about women relating to women, to men, about class distinctions among blacks, etc--are fantastic. it departs from the Bridget Jones genre, taking more risks, is slightly more literary than the multitude of "female perspective" books out there right now, and more complicated. A total pleasure to read, i'm recommending it to everyone i talk to.
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