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Summary: I laughed my head off!
Review: If you're looking for a creative and outrageously funny lesbo book, look no further. I've been searching high and low for a fun lesbian read and also for picturebooks with strong girl characters for my little niece. I found this book and "Drum, Chavi, Drum! Toca, Chavi, Toca!" an adorable bilingual picture-book that all lesbians/dykes/bi's/women/and girls who love feisty latino girl characters will adore. It's set in Little Havana's Calle Ocho festival. The main character wants to play Congas (not drums) in the festival but no one in her Cuban family or male teacher will allow her because in her culture/community, drumming is for boys! Both of these books are a must (even if you're not a child, "Drum, Chavi, Drum," will appeal to all strong-minded women/lesbians/dykes/girls; the kid is my heroine!)Anyhow, the above are the two books I recommend if you truly love FUN books. I applaud Michelle Sawyer for her cool/racy writing and recommend this book to anyone looking for a fun read.
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Summary: buy this book!
Review: it is seldom that i feel strongly enough about a book to write an online review. even rarer is the urge to send "fan mail" to the author. this book has me doing both. the plot is improbable, the characters broadly drawn, and the chronology hazy. yet somehow, it works. macy, the main character, is a driven, cigarette-smoking, bed-hopping manhattan lesbian. faith is the beguiling, honest, fresh-faced twenty-something who steals her heart. their courtship (if one may call it that) speeds between hilarity and pathos. i don't want to give away any of the wonderful specifics ... but these characters are so real, so full of life, that i feel i know them. even better, i want to spend more time with them. (sequel, please?) buy the book -- hang out with them for a long afternoon, and see if you don't agree. my only quibble is with the proofreader. while i didn't feel compelled to read with my red pencil in hand, the typos were annoying and detracted from a wonderful read.
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Summary: buy this book!
Review: it is seldom that i feel strongly enough about a book to write an online review. even rarer is the urge to send "fan mail" to the author. this book has me doing both. the plot is improbable, the characters broadly drawn, and the chronology hazy. yet somehow, it works. macy, the main character, is a driven, cigarette-smoking, bed-hopping manhattan lesbian. faith is the beguiling, honest, fresh-faced twenty-something who steals her heart. their courtship (if one may call it that) speeds between hilarity and pathos. i don't want to give away any of the wonderful specifics ... but these characters are so real, so full of life, that i feel i know them. even better, i want to spend more time with them. (sequel, please?) buy the book -- hang out with them for a long afternoon, and see if you don't agree. my only quibble is with the proofreader. while i didn't feel compelled to read with my red pencil in hand, the typos were annoying and detracted from a wonderful read.
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Summary: Sassy and original
Review: Michelle Sawyer is a new writer to watch. This book is sassy and original, nothing ho-hum about it. Michelle's writing is straightforward and her way with a plot is... well, it's just a lot of fun. If you're looking for a bracing read, try this one.
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Summary: Pleasant Surprise
Review: Picked up on whim and couldn't put it down. Fun quick read with snappy dialogue. The lead character is funny, smart, and flawed. Michelle keeps it all in balance and creates a character you still want to root for.
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Summary: This book is a scream!
Review: Reading this book, I couldn't stop myself from laughing out loud. It's the funniest, most poignant book I've read in years. I hope this isn't the last we've heard of these characters.
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Summary: Hilarious!!
Review: This book was SO funny!! I loved Macy's quick wit. Her sarcastic humor has me rolling on the floor laughing!! This book was the perfect combination of happy, sad, humor & love. My only complaint is that the book ended too soon!!
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Summary: Over-the-Top but Fun!
Review: This is definitely a fun, witty book with an over-the-top utterly unbelievable heroine who is as cheeky and dysfunctional as the women on Sex in the City. Sawyer is equally scathing of the foibles of life in Manhattan as she is of life in Ohio. If anything that is where the book has a problem. Macy is endearing underneath all her harsh wit, and yet she's so intent on the zinger, on the blase, bored statement about all of life that I wasn't 100% sure she had a heart. She tries...but I found myself thinking sometimes "run for the hills, Faith, because Macy's not gonna change." Like the Sex in the City gals, Macy isn't the settling down type. This isn't a romance in that sense at all. It's a romp, and very fun. Even given the way it ends, I don't believe there'll be a happy ending for Macy and Faith.
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Summary: A New Favorite
Review: This is the best book I've read since David Sedaris' "Holidays On Ice". I read nightly and I'm a tough critic, but this is simply an incredible book. It's funny, it's chic, it's sad, it's hot. All this and you'll read it in a day. Bravo!
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Summary: Oh, lighten up!
Review: This isn't Jane Austen, people, but it's funny and quirky and just a good time. If you're expecting a testament to A.A. or any other thoroughly serious matters (zzzzzzzz), forget it. What you get is bawdy fun with occasional pathos and characters who are somehow likeable despite their flaws. This book is what "The L Word" wishes it was. It works.
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