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Summary: Found and lost and found again.
Review: This was a very enduring novel, filled with suspense and true motivation of what makes friendship work and last. Patricia Reid, bookish and plain, meets Gayle Saunders, pretty and popular, and from there, a bond is formed which will be strengthen and broken more than they know. This book contains each joy and pain with realism, from Gayle's sudden pregnancy and marriage to Patricia's rise to the top of the advertising game and her true feelings for Gayle's former boyfriend, Marcus. There is so much to experience with these two girls-to-women, it's not hard to take it all in and it stays interesting with each page. This is a story about growth and being stronger than even you expected. It's also about how much you can accomplish with the love and support from the person you are proud to call a real friend. An excellent novel, ladies!
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Summary: Couldn't Stop Reading
Review: I just couldn't put this book down. The words and storyline flowed very well. A bad past can surely turn out to a good future. I know this all so well! I related to both women. Please Read!
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Summary: Sisters as Friends, Friends as Sisters
Review: A wonderful book about best friends living the basics of life: love, tragedy, dreams, reality, growing far apart, growing close together, humor, sensitivity, probing. The kind of book to give friends of all ages who face life full force and grow. These two wonderful African American women, whose lives were strongly shaped by their race and their gender, but with a story that transcends all isms. "For the first time the past they shared met the women they had become, and once again their dreams forthe future included each other." Honest, clear. Great read.
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Summary: Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made
Review: We had a book swap club at my last job, and this was the book that I was given in trade. I left the job before even starting it, and the book sat in my house for almost two years while I was "getting around to taking it back". So I picked it up to finally read it, and I was sorry I did not read it earlier. This is a very good book! I really enjoyed it. The only reason I gave it only four stars though was because I felt that the emphasis on race was too constant. The story would have been just as effective without the readers constantly having to be reminded that the characters are black. I would reccommend this book, especially to women, as they will best understand the delicate nature of female friendship. It is loyal and intense, but when a girlfriend lets you down it is the worst feeling ever! Hope you all enjoy this story as much as I did!
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Summary: Impressive!
Review: Everytime I want to read a fiction book, it's the same old topic--middle-aged woman complaining. I like those books, they're cool. But it's always nice to read about someone a little closer to your age and in this book, I got to watch two little girls and one little boy grow up. I like the omniscency that the two authors put on the characters so you could tell what they're all thinking. Job well done!
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Summary: A Story of Eternal, Childhood Friendship
Review: Remember when you were 13ish and you told your best friend... 'we're gonna grow up and get an apartment together when we're 21'? I certainly do, and this book brought those memories flooding back to me. Pat and Gayle were unlikely friends as children; Gayle the pampered, beautiful one... Pat the smart, but not-so-attractive orphan. Regardless of their differences, they bonded tightly as sisters, especially after Gayle's parent's took Pat in as foster child when they were about 10. Gayle and Pat grow into very different women. Gayle, looks for a 'perfect' life with a husband who will take care of her and for whom she can be 'perfect' for; Pat looks to education as an escape from relying on people who've lovingly, but grudgingly, cared for her. The story follows their lives for the next twenty or so years, interspersing with another childhood friend, Marcus who is living his life in the shadow of his brother, Freddy. Freddy was accidentally shot by Marcus when the kids were in grade school and all of them are affected by this tramatic event throughout their lives. Their stories diverge and then converge with the heart warming and stark realization that everything in life happens for a reason. Wonderful book!!
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Summary: SOUL SISTAS
Review: These two women really have a handle on the ideas, thoughts, and feeling of the characters portrayed in this novel. Each person just comes to life right off the page because they are so real. A woman could easily relate to one of the two main characters or both. I highly recommend this book for any woman trying to find out who she really is through her strengths and weaknesses.
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Summary: Soo good I suggested my 14yr old read it
Review: I totally loved this book. I was sorry it ended thats how good it is. The ending was perfect and left enough to the imagination to make you come up with each of the characters future. From rags to riches from abandoned to successfull and loved. The book is written so well that it was like I was actually watching a movie-I could see and feel the characters and the scene's. My 14 yr. old daughter like to read and I gave it to her to read and felt that however deep the stroy line it appropriate for her because there are not any very described sex scenes. GREAT BOOK!
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Summary: Awesome, Indeed!
Review: This book was absolutely fantastic! I could not put it down!! The characters were filled with emotion; I could feel their pain, just as I rejoiced in their joy. It just goes to show you really don't know people, most especially the people that you live with. Many of us wear different hats and put on heirs for those closest to us but, eventually, what's done in the dark will come to the light. This is a must read!
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Summary: Slow, but good
Review: This was a really nice book. It started off slow, and was kind of hard to get into. But once I did, it was a really good one. If you are intending to read this, do not give up on it.
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