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Summary: Extraordinary!!!
Review: This book was definitely her best yet! I could not put it down because I became engrossed with this incredible story about family, hope, acceptance, growth, and each of the exceptionally crafted characters. I could relate to each of the characters because they were people that I knew and had experienced or they were me. I loved Viola!!! She was something else!You go on Ms. McMillan! This was well worth the wait.
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Summary: Enjoyed This One!
Review: A Day Late and a Dollar Short was a fun book to read. McMillan seemed to have a great time creating these various and interesting characters. I would recommend this one to all McMillan fans! From R. Barri Flowers, author of DEADLY SECRETS IN THE MOTOR CITY, WHEN NIGHT FALLS, DAMNING EVIDENCE, and MURDER IN THE ROSE CITY.
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Summary: loved it
Review: This book made me laugh and cry. I feel like I personally know these characters. This has got to be the best book I have read this year.
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Summary: Or better Yet four and a half
Review: All I have to say is she's done better, and she's done worse. This book fell in the middle for me. I laughed, cried, and rushed chapters. I would have liked more focus on Paris (being an eldest child and all)and Janelle trying to fix her situation, basically a little more info on everyone would have been okay. Beyond those points I read the book in two weeks it grabbed me so well.
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Summary: Mama Knows Best
Review: I hate to put a "me too" review here but that's what this amounts too. I too think McMillan's latest novel is quite good and one of her best. A Day Late and Dollar Short takes us through the travails of the Price family and they all, including the matriarch of the family, Viola, have flaws. What's endearing about this book is that Viola knows each of her children, her husband, and herself, so well and McMillan does a fine job at building the characters of each member of the family that by the end of the novel, we feel we know them well too. And Viola proves that she knows herself well too and her coda is truly heart warming and uplifting.
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Summary: Superb! Down to earth in it's approach but deep!
Review: The genius in the simplicity is remarkable. Terry's characters talk to the reader. I must say that I can identify with the family disintegration. It truly happens before you realize it. I hope this book inspires us all to take a close look at how important it is to tell the ones we love how we feel when we have the chance! I highly recommend this work for anyone who is searching for a real, true to life story!
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Summary: A Sister Who Never Stops Speaking the Truth
Review: Once again Terry McMillian goes straight to the gut with "in the your face" writing that she is well-known for. The book tells in "confession" manner of a dysfunctional family trying to deal with problems of the family while still trying to hold on to their personal problems and independence with each chapter. The story did remind me a lot of "Soul Food" when it came to the relationships between the siblings and their mother. But when the point of reality comes that none of us are ever ready for; they deal with it like a true family should. I hope Sister Terry finds a good collaborator if or when she decides to make this into movie. It should be very interesting.
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Summary: The best book I've read in a long time!
Review: What can I say.....this book is goooood. I started reading it in the beauty shop and started laughing and crying under the dryer. If you don't have someone in your family like any of the characters, you aren't of this earth. Terry McMillan has taken us back to the days of Mama, but only better. This is hard saying without giving away the characters and story line, but order this book NOW and ask for next day shipping. I guarantee you will complete it in five days or less.
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Summary: Funny, good but language too rough!
Review: I read this book dealing with a black family from a white point of view and I really did like it. The feelings and emotions they all experienced truly did cross any racial boundaries. My only real objections was the language they all used. I really don't think everybody talks this way. Or at least I hope not! I like the variety of problems that the character were carrying. I did really enjoy it but again I would not recommend due to the Exteme number of obsenities.
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Summary: (((((((((((((right on time))))))))))
Review: what truly an amazing piece of art. i think this is my second reveiw but i wanted to make sure i got it in. i love the dialog. it reminded me so much of my immediate family. i'm the oldest, more financially and emotionally stabled one in my family. i am the one who seems to portray paris. i wish i had started a little earlier though accumulating the things she has in her life. i can also relate to her with her addiction. though mine isn't pills, it's more intense than that. it's dreams, goals and aspiration. i probably won't go to the extreme she went through to reach my dreams, goals and aspiration. but i don't dwell, ponder and dream about them daily. and i can only wish that someday it will all pay off. i can only dream of the day when the time cometh for me to be able to give my mother her hearts desire. all the sister's and brother can relate to someone in my family. it's three girls and one boy as well. but when i got to the end and was reading the letters i was crying so hard (thank God i live alone) i had to lay the book down and come back to it latter in the night. which still did not make a difference. i get so emotionally attached to the charecters when i read until it's unbeleivable. maybe someday i'll be able to put my thoughts on paper and be able to make a difference in someone else's life. i love how it ended. i even told my mother who is the back bone of my family to please read it. we are a close knit family, but my middle sisters (whom have very low self esteem) always trying to act like she don't have and she can't do and we leave her and her children out. it's so amazing. this book will have you relating to so many people and your own family. thanks terry, and please don't be so long with the next one. contact me i got a bunch of stuff you can write about. (LOL)
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