In this irrepressible, can't-put-it-down novel of six friends-each one an unforgettable woman in her late twenties-you'll meet:
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Jan 31, 2009
Anna
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I got to page 125 and finally gave up! This is a rambling mish-mash of way too many characters and points of view trying to do a lot with very little substance. The first chapter alone gave me a headache! I felt like the author chose to write about too many characters. Keeping track of their stories, looks, personalities, and all that was a nightmare and I felt like she could have written a much more engaging novel had she written about three, possibly four, women who were better developed. T
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Jun 19, 2007
stephanie
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i like reading chicklit that's aimed at "other" audiences - just to see what it's like.
this is basically sex & the city meets hispanic new york, and it's just genius. i don't know how to describe it. there's Usnavies - (yes, her mother named her US Navies, but she pronounces it different) - and there are four other fantastic characters. you feel for them all, you love them all, you get the idea of the differences between hispanics - puero rican, dominican, latin american, More...
this is basically sex & the city meets hispanic new york, and it's just genius. i don't know how to describe it. there's Usnavies - (yes, her mother named her US Navies, but she pronounces it different) - and there are four other fantastic characters. you feel for them all, you love them all, you get the idea of the differences between hispanics - puero rican, dominican, latin american, More...
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Mar 28, 2010
Nat
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A lot of people hated this book. But I kind of dug it. I think listening to it on tape when I used to have a long commute actually contributed to my enjoyment of it...and I'll tell you why.
The actress who read this book on tape added a lot to it for me. The story is told from the point-of-view of five different women with extremely varying interests and personalities, and the actress/reader portrayed them all pretty well, with different attitudes and accents.
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The actress who read this book on tape added a lot to it for me. The story is told from the point-of-view of five different women with extremely varying interests and personalities, and the actress/reader portrayed them all pretty well, with different attitudes and accents.
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May 25, 2008
Zulmara
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The Dirty Girls Social Club is a great story about 6 Latina friends that are about as diverse as Latinas can be…they come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and backgrounds. What they do have in common is a shared heritage of being Latina in America, highly educated, not living in poverty, and sharing a common bond of friendship that cannot be shaken, no matter what trials and tribulations life brings them.
Alisa uses a very unique style for telling us the story that is sure to charm some More...
Alisa uses a very unique style for telling us the story that is sure to charm some More...
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Dec 16, 2009
Delfina Paula
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This book was so great to read. It's a book told from about 4 or 5 different points of view, so you really get to know each character indepthly. It's about 4 (I think that's the right no.), that met in college and remained friends. They reunite atleast once a year and have a night all to themeselves. It's girl talk to the max. The great thing is, it's not about petty crap. It's about stuff that everyone goes through at one time or another (for the most part). Anyone, can relate to atleast
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Jun 18, 2011
Rebecca
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A group of diverse Latina women who graduated from BU and meet up twice a year to reminisce. Could have been way worse, but could have been a smidge better. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it could have been a little more real or maybe because if it was more real it would have felt too cliché. I did like their backgrounds a lot and how different but the same they all where at the same time. The smidge of Spanish that was in the book was kind of annoying because either I like so much that
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Sep 13, 2010
Courtney
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Aug 17, 2010
Emily
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I read this book after reading an article by the author about why it will never be turned into a movie--apparently because of racism in Hollywood and that it is unbelievable that Latina women could be successful. (She said attempts were made to make the screen play more sterotypical by having the women ask each other if they would ever date a man in prison.) After reading it, I like the way the book dealt with race (in particular by saying, duh, all Latinas are different) but find it to be unb
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May 15, 2010
Mary
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A vibrant and absorbing novel of six friends--each an unforgettable Latina in her late twenties--and the complications and triumphs in their lives
As soon as it was written, The Dirty Girls Social Club began turning heads. The Chicago Tribune reported that the book "set off a bidding frenzy" among publishers. The Associated Press reported that "even people running the copy machines at major publishing houses just had to read The Dirty Girls Social Club."
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As soon as it was written, The Dirty Girls Social Club began turning heads. The Chicago Tribune reported that the book "set off a bidding frenzy" among publishers. The Associated Press reported that "even people running the copy machines at major publishing houses just had to read The Dirty Girls Social Club."
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Sep 08, 2009
Ji
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Before I get into my opinions on this book, I will admit it: I’m not a fan of “chick lit.” But, I think of myself as being open minded and willing to read anything (I even read the whole series of Twilight). I understand that not all pieces of fiction are meant to be the next Great Gatsby or Hamlet and I’m perfectly fine with that. Some books are there just for the fun of it and you take it for what it is suppose to be. So when I read a book that all my girl friends love, I except a fun, light
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Sep 06, 2011
Harmonybites
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A blurb from New York claims this reads "like the Hispanic version of Waiting to Exhale." I can see similarities in this tale of close girlfriends, but I hated Waiting to Exhale, while I loved Dirty Girls Social Club. I loved how this book recognized and reveled in the diversity of Hispanics. That they are white--and black--and only sometimes brown. That besides Catholic, "Latinas come in 'Jew'" as well as Born-Again Christian. That "Hispanic" embraces very differen
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Aug 08, 2008
Jessica
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Meh.
What bugged me about this book was that the author was trying so hard to show the diversity of the Latina community that she assembled these characters that were do different that they would never be friends in real life.
I could not find anything that these characters had in common, not one thing that would tie them together as friends, besides the fact that they were all Latina.
This made a story about their "friendship" ring very false.
What bugged me about this book was that the author was trying so hard to show the diversity of the Latina community that she assembled these characters that were do different that they would never be friends in real life.
I could not find anything that these characters had in common, not one thing that would tie them together as friends, besides the fact that they were all Latina.
This made a story about their "friendship" ring very false.
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Dec 06, 2011
Jenny
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I borrowed this from my friend Chris without realizing how Latina this book is! It was fine, except I don't know Spanish, so often some of the phrases' meanings escaped me.
I don't know how I feel about this book. Part of me really liked it and part of me really didn't like the ending. Everything ends up okay. That's not really what happens in life. Also, is it really true that out of the six women in their late 20s, not one of them was living her life well? Couldn't you have 1 battli More...
I don't know how I feel about this book. Part of me really liked it and part of me really didn't like the ending. Everything ends up okay. That's not really what happens in life. Also, is it really true that out of the six women in their late 20s, not one of them was living her life well? Couldn't you have 1 battli More...
Sep 10, 2010
Kristen
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The writing style is great because you can definitely "hear" the author's voice. She throws "Spanglish" in throughout. There are 6 main characters and the story is told from all of their points of view...each chapter it switches. The girls call each other "sucias" (which means dirty girl in Spanish) lovingly. Each character is different. They all went to Boston University and they are all Latina. They still meet twice a year to catch up. There is Sarah, who is a ful
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May 03, 2010
Ally
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I bought this book a long time ago and tried to read it and I didnt get very far. I'll be honest that the cover sold me and is the main reason that I bought this book (guess you cant judge a book by its cover right ;)... Finally, I decided to try to read this again and got through the book. It was ok, nothing really special...I thought that it was a little to short of a book to jump through all of the characters and see where they all were coming from. Also, all of the characters were hispan
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Feb 20, 2011
Kelly
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I absolutely adored this book! The story of these girlfriends is a story that almost any woman can relate to. It's about the close bonds of "sisterhood" but also about the secrets that we keep from even our closest friends. It takes you through a wide range of emotions, from happy to sad, from excited to angry, it makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you want to grab the characters and say "What the hell are you doing?". Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez did such an amazing job w
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Apr 05, 2010
Katherine
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"The Dirty Girls Social Club" is about six spanish women from different ethnic backgrounds who come together every year to recap their lives and support one another. We take each story chapter by chapter- Lauren, Usnavys, Rebecca, Sara, Elizabeth, Amber. Each woman gets her story told in a chapter, then they switch off and we see through another woman's eyes. We learn about being a career woman in her 20s, being powerful as a spanish woman, love as a spanish woman, drugs and therapy- i
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Apr 06, 2011
Rana
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Awful. I'm marking this as read in my collection simply so I can be reminded in the future not to attempt it again. I'm not one to give up on a book once I've started it. But I quit this one after page 15. It could be argued that I didn't give it enough of a chance, but how many times do I have to read "girl" and "ya'll" at the end of a sentence when it doesn't really belong there. These are things that can add a little emphasis when used sparingly. Same with the italics. I a
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Apr 19, 2010
Stephanie
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The Dirty Girls Social Club reminded me of a Latina version of Sex and the City, but not nearly as engaging or the writing as clever (the television show, not the horrible books). Knowing Spanish helped, since there was a lot of it thrown around in the text. If anyone other than a Latina had attempted a friendship dramedy of the Hispanic culture like what I just finished, they would have surely been sued up and down for stereotyping.
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I didn't connect with any of the characters, and f More...
Apr 10, 2009
Amy (amyb2332)
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This is my second book by this author and the one thing that I really like about her books is the different characters. Sometimes I feel like chick lit characters are all the same but that is not true with these books. However, sometimes I don't always like her characters. This book followed the lives of 6 women so it really would be hard to relate to all of them but at times, some of them were so shockingly rude that it was hard to not hold it against them. Usnavys is the specifically the on
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Jan 02, 2010
Amanda
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I think that "beach read" is a negative term. The books I take to the beach (or my equivalent of the beach, since the sun and I don't really go well together) are not deep, complicated pieces of literature that stick with me for weeks and analyze or discuss with friends. No, my beach reads are light, simple, silly, and usually very girly.
And that's where The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodrgiuez comes in. It is the quintessential beach read. Even though I read m More...
And that's where The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodrgiuez comes in. It is the quintessential beach read. Even though I read m More...
Jul 25, 2009
Debbie (Readerbuzz)
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Five Hispanics become friends
in college, forming the sucias,
the dirty girls. I love all the
Hispanic culture, the Spanish
words and phrases, so much that
I can overlook the amazing way
that each of the five is from
a different Spanish subculture,
almost as if they were cho More...
in college, forming the sucias,
the dirty girls. I love all the
Hispanic culture, the Spanish
words and phrases, so much that
I can overlook the amazing way
that each of the five is from
a different Spanish subculture,
almost as if they were cho More...
Feb 07, 2011
Unwisely
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This book was a slog for me. I really *wanted* to like it, but I put it down for over a week (twice!) because I was so very annoyed at the characters. (OK, at Lauren.) Seriously, there are like 6 protagonists, and only one of them is very likable. Also, it's not a terribly intertwined plot, and I spent most of the book wondering why these people were friends, because most of the time they didn't behave much like it.
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I can see how this could be a TV series - each character has plot l More...
Apr 15, 2011
My school has had an adult book club ever since I started working there. I finally decided to take a once a month break from YA and join the club. The first book I had to read for it was The Dirty Girls Social Club. I did not really care for this book, although after HATING the first couple chapters, it did get a little better. Still, it is not a book I would read on my own. It is about a group of Latina women who meet in college and continue on in their friendship, meeting up twice a year
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Aug 31, 2011
yvette
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this book was an entertaining, humorous, easy read. i plan to read more of this author. it was fun trying to pick out some of the spanish thrown into the story. and i'm always intrigued by stories of the less-fortunate young women who strive to reach a comfortable, six figure income, prada wearing, brownstone owning, vacationer in the east of France types who catch prince charming riding on a white horse as she hops from one successful career to another. oh yea,...and then there's a few hot, s
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Jun 21, 2011
Angela
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Jan 25, 2010
Kat
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It's nice to read a book featuring Latina ladies for a change, rather than 4 white women with different-colored hair, haha. I thought this book was pretty funny as chick-lit goes, and definitely a book that fans of Sex in the City would enjoy. My mom actually recommended it to me over the summer as a good "beach read," and that's exactly how I'd categorize it. It's not a book you read to learn anything, but it's a book you read for pure entertainment, and Valdez-Rodriguez brings More...
Dec 11, 2011
Nancy
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I read this book a few months ago, and absolutely loved it. In particular this book it’s about six Latinas friends, each one is an astonishing woman living complications but also accomplishments in their lives. In addition, one of my favorite chapters in this book is when one of the women gets rejected by her fiancée for not being exotic and sufficient. It is also an interesting book because it talks about six very different women’s; it shows how everybody thinks differently and acts differentl
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