Barbara McQueen

Bittersweet

Revisado: 10-12-22

High drama and very evil bad guys served with a bit too much syrup about how lovable all the good guys are. Raises some interesting questions about whether being able to read minds would be a good thing or a bad thing.

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Struggled Through

Revisado: 08-24-21

I really didn't like Libby, the main character of this novel. She described herself as a calm, unflailing optimist, but throughout the novel, she sobbed and whined and predicted doom. She also over-mothered her diabetic daughter to an obnoxious extent and procrastinated confronting problems in her marriage. It was a struggle to finish the book although I've really enjoyed other books by Camille Pagan.

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Underwhelmed

Revisado: 06-09-20

Read like a daytime soap opera complete with beautiful people, dark secrets, and saccharine love stories.

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Plunged Expectations

Revisado: 06-02-20

I had high expectations for this book given its famous author and the similarities between its proposed story and the current, pompous, racist, self-serving, government of President Trump. The book, however, was an exaggerated parody of the present from a writer in our past, instead of an insightful look at how abominable real governments can be. The lies and conceits of all of the presidential candidates were extreme, and the excesses, oppression, and violence of the victors were non-stop over the top. All of this is appropriate for a parody, but tiring when a real message is so readily at hand.

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An Important Story Ruined

Revisado: 05-30-20

This research and understanding of Cuban culture and history before and during its Castro years was ruined for me by the triteness of the love stories thrown in. So many of the characters are utterly gorgeous people who fell in love at first sight. Why is everyone so gorgeous? Why was it so common to fall in love at first sight? The real world isn't like this, and the syrupy romanticism here made the rest of the novel less believable and less potent.

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Not My Cup of Tea

Revisado: 05-23-20

I liked the exposure to Chinese life during its revolutionary past, and there were some interesting insights about attitudes toward relationships and class, but I had very little sympathy for the heartaches most of the main characters caused themselves and the very vulgar language that regularly popped up.

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Assumption Lessons

Revisado: 05-22-20

Delicious sense of humor woven into a tough tale of a transgender child. Also, shows how difficult it is to be a good parent to any child.

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Wonderful and Necessary

Revisado: 03-05-20

Women need to read this book to confirm that this is happening to all of us, and we need to start shouting, not whispering. I literally do not know any women who have not been sexually harassed. Not one, even though I know thousands of women. Men need to read this book to wake up to how inappropriate they are and to learn that women are more and more willing to fight back.

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Delightful

Revisado: 11-12-19

Lots of horrible circumstances, yet still very funny with a wonderfully snarky narrator. Loved it.

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