Funny, Touching, Easy to Read, Great Book | The Dirty Girls Social Club: A Novel

Latina Waiting to Exhale | The Dirty Girls Social Club: A Novel | Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

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	• The Dirty Girls Social Club: A Novel Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 160 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Loved it!

This book is like a delicious dessert - so quick & easy to read, yet also captivating and thoughtful. It's also such a pleasure to read about successful, intelligent Latina women. I highly recommend this.

Funny, Touching, Easy to Read, Great Book

Now and then, I enjoy reading something fun and different, way out of my normal genre. I found this book to be very easy to read, filled with a lot of great insights to life and love, friendship and relationships. I like the idea that friendships formed in high school and college can last a lifetime. Here are some of my random comments about the book.

1. The author is a pro at writing in the first person and giving us a sometimes hilarious stream of consciousness as each of the six girls tells us what is going on in their lives at a given moment. We receive these extremely private thoughts and private reactions to what is being said about them that makes us understand and enjoy each of the characters. For me, this is the main core of the enjoyment of the book. It is surprisingly well done and intimate and as we move from first person of one of the characters to the next, and hear her side of the equation, we understand and more fully understand the relationship.

2. Each of the individual stories is fun and interesting if not a bit exaggerated. But this is what makes a fun story. Something very significant happens over the course of a year to each of the girls as their very unique and successful lives morph primarily through their choice of relationships with men. Each of the girls have this Latina girl baggage of growing up that affects their choices and make them do sometimes foolish things.

3. An additional genius of the book is to show how important these friendships really are and how each of the girl's lives is enhanced and aided by the other five girls and their opinions and the strength they offer to each other through some very difficult and trying times. It's clear that on their own, they may have faltered and could have made bad decisions. It reminds me somewhat of the friendships in "Sex and the City" series.

4. Each of the girls are from "Latina", yet totally different backgrounds and I think there was a lot of good information about how difficult it can be for people from different backgrounds to be approved of and successful in the American culture.

I think you'll find this to be a pretty fun and easy read full of mischief and fun, while still a pretty strong and insightful group of stories that fit very well together.

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Latina Waiting to Exhale

First, let me say I do not usually read these kinds of books. So to me, it was a little on the slow side. I really got it cause it was written by a Spanish author about spanish women...which I am. Good drama, with a lot of human...at least from what I read. Unfortunately, i did not finish the book.

Meet the six unforgettable women who make up

The Dirty Girls Social Club

Lauren, the ?caliente? columnist for the local Boston paper whose love life is making headlines? Sara, the perfect wife and mother who?s got it all but pays a high price? Elizabeth, the stunning black Latina whose TV anchor job conflicts with her intensely private personal life? Amber, the Valley girl who doesn?t speak Spanish but is fast becoming a huge rock star en Espanol? Rebecca, hyper-in-command in her glossy magazine world but clueless when it comes to men?and Usnavys, fabulous, larger than life, and at risk of falling head over five-inch Manolos in love?.

No matter what happens to each of them, the Girls dish, dine, whine, and compare notes as they try to sort out the bumpy course of life and love. And what a wild ride it is!

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