Shy Girl vs Popular Boy (Forever Love #3)
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A second-place sister. A first-rate jock. Can the light of love shine through the darkest pain? ...
Young Adult Contemporary Romance Family Saga
Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated Better Than I Know Myself in Books
Apr 3, 2019
The story progresses through their meeting in New York at Barnard and continues through their graduation. Regina and Jewel were already roommates when they met Carmen at the university library. They all got stuck in an elevator together and as they say, "The rest is history." They lived together through the early 80's as they grew into women and started to become independent.
The book covers twenty years of friendship and sisterhood and all the trials and tribulations that entails.
This book made me laugh out loud and brought a tear or two to my eyes. It also made me want to get together with my closest girlfriends. This is a book that you have to read until the end.
I listened to this book through the iPod and Overdrive. The audio was read by Lisa Renee Pitts.
Edwards basically writes some (I believe) far fetched memoir but mingles it with self help bullshit that has been regurgitated from other peoples ideas. I am confused by the author's objectives. Whilst I appreciate any woman who is a good and opinionated feminist, I feel that Edward's 'Sisterhood' is cringey. The writer comes across as middle class and perhaps would have benefited from excluding her middle class status to seem less arrogant to working class readers.
I learned of a technique for essay writing in college (PEE) Point, Evidence and Evaluation. This is a formula that Edwards uses throughout her book and it makes the flow very artificial instead of conversational.
On the plus side, it was her first novel, and she managed to write it and publish it. It just wasn't for me.
The Feast Goes on
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"It's always about the food." A generous, warm-hearted book, The Feast Goes On features the...
We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere
Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel
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Imagine a sisterhood - across all creeds and cultures. An unspoken agreement that we, as women, will...
Butterfly Islands (Chronicles of the Twenty-One Butterflies Book 1)
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Casey is only fifteen years old when her stepfather tries to marry her to a perverted and brutal man...
YA Young Adult Action Adventure Pirates Treasure
We Fly Beneath the Stars [Audiobook]
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1942, Europe: Based on the true story of a female-only bomber battalion, this is a totally...
Queen B
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The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL...
Historical fiction
Alison Pink (7 KP) rated Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5) in Books
Jan 15, 2018
I have to say it didn't really matter that I knew nothing about the series prior to this book. It was able to stand on its own. There was back story, but not knowing it didn't seem to effect my enjoyment of this book. It was a bit difficult to get into at first, but once I was in, I was in & invested in Lena, Carmen, TIbby, & Bee.
The book seems to be a final installment in the series. It opens with the 4 friends hardly speaking to each other as life has gotten in the way. 3 of them recieve letters from Tibby who is currently living in Australia. They contain requests to meet her in Greece & also the plane tickets to allow them to do so. The 3 head off, meet up in JFK airport, & fly off to Greece to get there. They mysetery begins when they arrive & Tibby is not there waiting for them as she said she would be.
This is a sad read, but it is also very real. The characters jump off the page & the writing plunges you deep into their lives. I love that in a book.
Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity
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This is the first analysis of periodicals' key role in U.S. feminism's formation as a collective...