Okay, yes, I know, I normally wait a day after I finish a book before I start reviewing it. But I'm going to change that now because I usually have fresher and better stuff on my mind the day I review it. Okay. So, as a woman, especially a black American woman, Waiting to Exhale was one of those ...
Loved it! The movie is among my favorites...among the first movies I ever owned (Dirty Dancing was the first...my all time favorite movie...it was a gift). I have it on VHS and whenever I'm in the mood, AND one of my VCRs is wired correctly, I watch it. It's out on DVD now, so I'll need to hook t...
I almost gave up on this book halfway through, but it picked up again. Winston, Stella's love interest, never felt real to me--he was just a reflection seen through Stella. So while I could see the impact Winston had on Stella, I never felt or believed it myself.A couple of running incidental the...
n the early 1990's, author Terry McMillan gave a voice to young African American women via the antics of the characters in her New York Times bestseller, Waiting to Exhale. Now, nearly 13 years later, she is back with another definite hit, The Interruption of Everything, which focuses on the tria...
This story is about the Price family. We get to meet them, warts and all, chapter by chapter. The first chapter introduces us to Viola, the matriarch of the family. Viola, in the hospital suffering from a massive asthma attack, is wearied and worried by her spouse and her offspring. In her first-...
This is my first time reading a Terry McMillan book, and I'm also aware that this was her first book. Hopefully that little fact makes all the difference in the rest of her books. On to the story, Mama is a good book. I just had high hopes on the book because I'm a fan of Terry McMillan as a pers...
This was a sad little book. I had a bad feeling when I read the author's note at the beginning and Terry McMillian wrote about her Waiting to Exhale characters that "To be honest, all four of them got on my last nerve long after their shelf life." The writing was choppy. The dialogue was sophomor...