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MY WORKS: The Cookie Quartet"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
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A review by the Serendipity Book Club(Hanover, Germany)
The Wackiest Christmas Season Ever!!! Six women who live around the New York Metropolitan area are facing another Christmas...STILL SINGLE!!! One, the famous talk show host Aletha Brown is so frustrated with her relationship that she ends up shooting her boyfriend just two weeks before Crhistmas. In the meantime, her producer, Veronica McPhereson has just had a baby, and is fired by the jealous Aletha. There is a writer who writes a book she is not qualified to write and is on a book tour while her son is seaching (behind her back) for the father he never knew. Aletha's sister and her husband, the Simon's are so sick of being surrounded by out of control sistahs and brothas that they are planning to flee the country. The piece de rsisitance, though is the outrageouly funny Christmas party in the Connecticut mansion of Desiree and Aletha's parents house. This book has to be about the funniest book I have read in ages...perhaps ever! It is a brilliant satire using BLACK WOMEN to illustrate what you can call an abuse of power! Clever!!!! Amazon.com Reviewer: A reader TO THE RESCUE!!! I've decided to comment because I found the book to be thought provoking and a personal challenge to me. I have been primarily attracted to and committed to Black men. However, their lack of reciprocal commitment to Black women has always baffled me. I admit that African-American men and women are going to have to work very hard at building positive relationships and if this book helps us get any closer to that goal then I applaude the author. I admit the author sort of goes a "little" over-board with her depiction of the female characters and their neuroses, problems and prejudices but after all it is FICTION. I commend the author for her effort and courage to challenge sisters to re-think our struggle (for power/control) with our men. (And if this shoe doesn't fit you, then ....) This book also made me question other girlfriends and some of my male friends, literally, engaging them in conversations about what is wrong and what do they desire from their relationships. This is the first romance novel that made me search myself for why my "tall, dark and handsome" is still in paperback and not in my bed. |