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Kindle (2nd Generation) makes book reading fun and much easier. It is overall a very good device and is greatly recommended. The next generation will hopefully have a better refresh rate.
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We love this iPod Touch so much that four people in my family how owns one. Very happy with the product. I only wish the charge would last more than two hours.
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Just think: 91 year old, J. D. will live on in teenage land forever! God Bless him for creating such a marvelous read.
I love this book because I can read it once a decade since I first encountered it in high school so many years
ago and like it just the same. Holden is forever lively, silly, young and engaging–and it still makes me
shake my head when I remind myself that the story takes place in the late 1940’s. Goes to show you things
really do not change–especially, the sporadic emotions of teens. But I need to say while Salinger’s little
novel is engaging, it is limited. I can understand why people are questioning its immense popularity.
Holden’s journey is just a “slice of life” and not a full story that merits classic fiction.

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I enjoy well-written fantasy books, like the Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire series, books 1-7 (let’s forget books 8 -9 happened) and Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series. Those books feature female protagonists who have dimension, character, quirkiness, and occasional flaws. The characters are well-fleshed out and have internal conflicts, as any real person would. They aren’t perfect and they don’t live with perfect people.

Bella Swan, the main character in the Twilight, is a one-dimensional, whiny, sullen, bratty teenager. Her only flaw seems to be that she doesn’t fit in the town and that maybe she’s just too darn pensive and too darn pretty. She’s just too darn perfect. (I’m being facetious….) I won’t divulge much of the plot (little as there is) but during much of this book, Bella is either feeling like she’s too good for Forks (the small town she’s relocated to) or she’s fawning over Edward, the “mysterious” Cullen boy.

The author fails to inject any sense of character into her characters. They come across as flat, predictable and formulaic. Every vampire character is described as beautiful, attractive, alluring, etc. The school kids are stereotypical school kids. No one seems to have any real flaws, physical or otherwise. The “good” vampires are even – gasp – pseudo-VEGETARIANS…! (They feed on animals, but not people.) And of course, everyone knows the joke about the sparkling. If you don’t, I won’t spoil it for you but you can Google or Yahoo it, if you really want to know.

The writing was painful to read. The style read like a teenager’s diary, ironically, it would have made more sense had it been written in that way, ala Bridget Jone’s Diary. I would have more easily forgiven the endless ogling that Bella subjects Edward to. The author tries to write him in a sympathetic Byronesque fashion, but he’s simply bad tempered and chauvinistic. He’s not a tragic hero, Edward is just tragically boring. The supporting characters
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STORY BRIEF:
Eugenia is recently home from college in Jackson, Miss., in 1962. She begins collecting stories from black women who work as nannies and housekeepers for white women. The white women are into Junior League, paying bridge, and the country club. One white woman Hilly, has frightening social power over others. She will punish anyone, black or white, who doesn’t do what she wants. She is selfish, cruel, and racist.

REVIEWER’S OPINION WITH POSSIBLE SPOILER:
What a wonderful story. Never once was I bored or wanted it to be over. Unique characters, surprising, uplifting, and thought provoking – but the ending was bad. I read for escape, for entertainment, and to feel better. The maids’ lives were full of hardship and struggle, but there was hope, anticipation, comfort with others, and love. I was so drawn to the main characters, two black maids and one white writer. I wanted a happy ending for all three of them, but I felt like the author was going for political correctness or a morality lecture by having the maids suffer more setbacks at the end – at the hands of white oppression. It was a punch in the gut. This book was such a rich experience, and I’m glad I bought it, but I am angry at the author for ruining it with negative ending. People I care about are hurting. The entire book encourages compassion, love, and a call to action against racism. Don’t muddy the experience by leaving a bad taste in the reader’s mouth.

I listened to the audiobook version. It was very well done with three different actresses reading for the main characters. I recall another Amazon reviewer having some difficulty reading the black maids’ dialect. Listening to the audiobook might solve that problem. I found it pleasing and easy to listen to.

DATA:
Swearing language: I don’t recall, probably mild. Sexual content: none. Setting: early 1960s Jackson, Mississippi. Copyright: 2009. Genre: women’s fiction, race relations.
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I’m not easily grabbed by books, but this one did it fine fashion. I usually read maybe 20 minutes before I go to bed, but I finished this book in four nights including two nights where I stayed up two hours reading. It was absolutely wonderful from start to finish.
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I was in need of a new iPod, and the Touch was everything I needed.
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We have numerous brushes for the cats and this one is the most effective. The amount of hair it removes is shocking; you’d think the cat would be bald. Whether or not it works for you depends on your cat. One of my cats looooooves the Furminator. I wish the other cat would cooperate but he doesn’t like being brushed no matter what the brush is. Unless you have a small or short-haired cat, this the size to get else you’d be furminating all day.
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