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She’s trying her damnedest not to cry, but it’s hard.

Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan

March 27, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the sequel to Waiting to Exhale some fifteen or so years after the end of the first book. The first started in frustration and ended in mostly mixed to positive situations for all four friends in and around 40 years old and in Phoenix AZ. But then, damn, this book is brutal. We are dealing with all four women being hit in the effing face by life in a handful of different ways. Whether it’s embarrassing divorces, menopause, deaths, drug addiction, or other […]

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vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:164 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: getting to happy, Terry McMillan ·
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From the outside, everything looks good

Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

February 13, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I would argue that I am not the target audience for this book. But what’s interesting to me is that I distinctly remember being 10 and 13 respectively when the book and then the movie came out and it being a blockbuster reception for both. So much so, that this happened: …but they told us not to hold our breath. And I don’t remember if this is a movie my very white parents went to go see, but they might have. One time they went […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Terry McMillan, waiting to exhale

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:85 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Terry McMillan, waiting to exhale ·
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It’s hard not to root for Stella

September 20, 2016 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

I’ve never seen the film adaptation of How Stella Got Her Groove Back, but if it’s at all true to the source material, I bet it’s a lot of fun. Stella Payne, a 42 year old divorced mother of an 11 year old boy, decides spontaneously to take a solo trip to Jamaica. She works hard and rarely relaxes, so why not? She buys some cute clothes, packs some books for the beach, and flies out. She does not expect to meet a man — much […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Terry McMillan

badkittyuno's CBR8 Review No:187 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Terry McMillan ·
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