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Summary: Interesting book showing morals
Review: this was a good book to read with nice dialouge and events that happened, bu sometimes i thought that it was a bit detailed. i liked how she incorporated a white woman into a black beauty parlor that did not feel the same way about children. i especially like the part where she's in bed with a guy and his toenails were so jagged that they sractched her and made her bleed. that was quite hilarious.
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Summary: What a Blessing!
Review: Blessings will make you laugh...cry...and shout for joy! I read this book in two days and enjoyed it from start to finish. I'll never look at the beauty shop the same. It's definitely true that the vein to what's going on in any small town, runs through the beauty shop. If you get your hair done on a regular basis...you can easily keep track of your neighbors! The ending was wonderful, I'm so glad everything turned out for the best!
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Summary: Shaneska's best work!
Review: I absolutly loved Blessing! I loved some of the characters, hated others, and pitied a few. Everyone was so real and dealt with everyday issues like the rest of the world. I recommend this book to everyone: it is a great read!
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Summary: A great Story
Review: Blessings is the best book I have read in years. I am reading it now for the third time. I love the context of the book and how it focuses on each woman and there parental problems. I love it and I know I will read it again.
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Summary: ... 1 Review of Blessings by Sheneska Jackson
Review: Blessing by Sheneska Jackson was a book we read recently in our book club. The book was about four women who worked in a hair salon. Zuma, a fabulous hairdresser who is an energetic, loud and brassy sister who has developed a 5 year plan to have a family by the time she is 30 with or without a man. Pat, the owner of Blessings has everything a woman could want; a wonderful husband, successful business and good friends; but there is one thing missing from her life, a child. Faye, the hair braider/weave expert is a single mother of two children, a teenage daughter (who is giving her much grief) and young son. Sandy, who happens to be the only white woman in the bunch; is the ex "dancer" now manicurist that Pat hires. Sandy lives with her boyfriend and two children and let's just say Sandy is no Mrs. Brady.Although each of these women has different goals, backgrounds and cultures, there is one thing that is apparent throughout this entire book, and that is children. In additon to the theme of children being blessings, we also uncovered various themes such as stereotyping, interracial dating, spousal abuse and the neglect of children. The book gave a picture view of each of these women lives and what it is they chose to do to make their family real. Although some of us found the book not too well researched (in terms of the characters), predictable and typical; other members felt like they knew and understood their drama and pain. Overall the book was well written, and a good read. Sheneska Jackson did a pretty good job in showing each of these women turmoil and trouble and how they all came together to help each other out. The group on a whole rated it "fair" giving it a 7 out of 10 rating.
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Summary: This was a good read...
Review: This book started off kinda slow, but it ended up being a GREAT READ. The characters were well developed which in my opinion is what brought the book out. The white girl in this book had alot of drama going on didn't she? I would recommend this book and I will be reading more of this author's novels!
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Summary: True Blessings
Review: Blessings is a story of four women whose common ground comes together at Blessings Salon. Each of these women shares an obsession with children, in one form or another. Pat, the owner of Blessing Salon desperately wants a child, after failed attempts to conceive and adopt she is on the verge of losing her marriage as a result of her despair over being childless. Zuma, who has it all under control or at least thinks she does, has a master plan, to have a child on her own, through artificial insemination. Having been pregnant before and aborted, she believes she can make up for her error by conceiving once again, the right way, on her own terms. Faye, a single mother of two and widow, holds on to the memory of her murdered husband through her son and relives her guild daily through harsh treatment and rebelliousness from her daughter. Finally, there's Sandy, "the white girl" and former stripper who is "burdened" by her two children, that she gave birth to only to please her man. If it were left up to her she would have no children and her every action shows how little she cares for them. Each of these women learn hard lessons about how their own selfishness can have adverse affects on their family and on themselves. Yet in the end they realize, what children really are, blessings from God.
The story was very engaging and takes the reader into a bevy of emotions. The characters are well developed so the reader gets to know them well enough to either love them or hate them. Kudos to Sheneska Jackson for providing the reader with such an enjoyable and easy to read novel.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This was a very interesting book about 4 women who were very different, but all had one thing in common: Gaining Happiness. A great book, the ending had me in tears, and it takes a lot to make the reader feel.
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Summary: A Great Book! A Real Page Turner!
Review: This was the 1st of Ms. Jackson's books that I read and I could hardly put it down! It's really good to have a wonderful young black female author who really knows how to put it down and represent black women as we really are: smart, savvy, full of attitude and spirit. You go, girl!
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Summary: Slow Start, but worth it!!
Review: A Well written book, a great starter book if it's your first time reading her work (like it was for me). Reading about the different stages of life these women were in and finding out how they got where they are makes sticking with this book worth getting past the first couple of slightly dragging discreptive chapters. The End Will Shock You and make you cry.
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