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Summary: Incredible
Review: This was the best book I have ever read. The dialect and truth make it so real and easy to understand. Once I started reading it I couldn't wait until the next opportunity I'd get to continue reading it. This book is so touching and well written. I'd reccomend it to anyone.
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Summary: HELP, I CAN'T PUT THIS BOOK DOWN, WONDERFUL
Review: This is the type of book that makes you happy you can read. You can not put this book down, intense, happy, sad, a natural high. The plot thickens, HIV, death, love, life, happiness, a chance at a "future". What else can anyone ask for. This makes you think that yes there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The characters are life like, emotional and caring examples of what makes a book a book. Take a chance, pick this up and read it, you'll say I do believe there are more miracles.!!!!!
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Summary: I loved this book.
Review: Here is a world I had never visited before. If someone would have asked me, I wouldn't have been able to give a reason to visit it. How unenlightened I have been! It is a short journey and everyone should get a chance to take it. I was spell bound by the people and the emotions. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Great Book! Great for any woman!
Review: Pearl Cleage's "What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day" is a fine book written with thought and detail. The profanity was completely necessary and let the reader know how Ava Johnson really felt at every moment. The language was humorous and easy to relate to. It also opened up the readers eyes by taking a look at a life completely different from their own.
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Summary: LOVE IT - LOVE IT - LOVE IT.
Review: Pearl Cleage creates an atmosphere that will surround you with an odd sense of peacfulness and serenity while reading "What seems like crazy on an ordinary day". When reading this book I was there with Ava, Joyce, Wild Eddie and the Sewing Circus. You'll care about each and every one of these characters. It's one of those reads that you'll wonder what their doing when your not able to actually pick up the book and hate for your phone to ring or your stop to come if your reading it in the bus. Thanks Ms. Cleage for this wonderful story of family, community, challenge, love, and above all hope. P.S. If Wild Eddie is based on a real character, tell him I fell in love with him.
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Summary: A Wonderful Story with a Fabulous Finish
Review: How many times have you read a book that you thought was great going through it only to come to the end and be disappointed by the "finish". This book has a fabulous finish. A thoroughly enjoyable story.
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Summary: Great bubble bath book.
Review: Crazy ... was a "one-nite, can't put it down, crumbs on the pages, calgon take me away, truly enjoyable place to visit for a while." And I'll take one Eddie to go, please.
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Summary: Loved this book!
Review: In the 22 years I have been alive I have spent at least half of my life being aware of HIV. I know every way it is contracted, the ways to protect myself, and the drugs available to help HIV positive people live longer. What I didn't have any idea about was how someone lives with HIV. Once you find out you still live for a long time HIV. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is a book about Ava Johnson living with HIV. You won't find much information about the disease in this book. There are not long descriptions of what doctors told her or the medication she is suppose to take. It is simply about one person trying to maintain a life while being HIV positive. I loved this book. Pearl Cleage's writing is amazing. She completely transported me into this woman's and her family's lives. The characters were rich and whole characters. I felt like I could know any one of the them. I didn't realize that even smaller country communities are full of the same problems that cities have as far as drugs and violence. The advantage to the smaller community, however, is that you have a much better chance of reaching people and trying to change the way of life. Joyce, Ava sister, was a wonderful character. Her loving heart and drive to make a change was inspiring. These young women wanted to make a good life for themselves and their children. Joyce was an excellent person to show them love and educate them. I loved her and Ava's list of 10 things every free woman should know. And last let me mention Eddie. Wow... if I could find a man like Eddie. This was an excellent love story. This man had a very bad history. He had made bad choices but he learned and changed himself around into the person he always knew he could be. Ava thinks that she no longer deserves to be loved in a sexual way because of HIV. She learns a lot from Eddie about love and her sexuality. One of my favorite lines from this book is when Ava is learning mediation from Eddie. "One of the good things about meditating is that it helps you spot your own bullshit much faster. The bad this is, sometimes a little harmless bullshit is quite a pleasant diversion from what are invariably the much harsher realities of a bullshit-free existence."
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Summary: Increadible...Touching and Funny
Review: This book was wonderful! Ada is very real. Disillusioned, yet hopeful, humorous yet sad, her conflicting nature is intriging. I loved this book and look forward to reading more from the author. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: It should be a made for t.v. movie.
Review: This is the first work I've read by Cleage. I especially like her candid way of presenting issues of race, gender, sexuality, poverty, and the need for us to learn how to live together despite our differences. Sista, is an honest writer. Bakari
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