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Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice
Coffee Will Make You Black, Sinclair's bestselling debut novel, introduced Stevie, a tough-talking, irresistible African-American girl growing up on Chicago's South Side during the time of the civil rights movement. Now Stevie returns, just graduated from college and ready to explore her new turf--San Francisco in 1971.
Paperback, 324 pages
Published
February 28th 1997
by HarperCollins Publishers
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Jan 05, 2011
Jeremy Preacher
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I almost didn't read this because I disliked its predecessor so much, but it was the last book in my library stack and it's not about twelve-year-olds. It was a substantial improvement, anyway, although many of the fundamental flaws are still there.
The characters are still pretty much one-dimensional, although they're not quite as cardboard-cutout as in the previous book. (And make no mistake, this is a sequel - it's just the next five years of the same character's life.) Since it's set in San F...more
The characters are still pretty much one-dimensional, although they're not quite as cardboard-cutout as in the previous book. (And make no mistake, this is a sequel - it's just the next five years of the same character's life.) Since it's set in San F...more
Jul 18, 2011
J
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(FROM JACKET)Jean "Stevie" Stevenson is somewhat older and wiser, with some experience and a college degree-diving headfirst into the hot tub, free love, yoga, and vegetarian lifestyle of 1970s San Francisco. In this liberating new world of raised conciousness, mind expansion, and disco dancing, a soul sister with passion and daring has room to experiment with life and love to find out who she "really" is.
The title of this book made me smile because it reminds of somethng I would hear my mom say while she was chatting with her girlfriends back in the day. As the sequel to Coffee Will Make You Black, I expected more from this book. It was okay, nothing spectacular. It just left me wanting more.
I'd give this book 3 1/2 stars if I could!! Not as great as the first book "Coffee Will Make You Black" though I thought it was still a good book. Though this book is written in the same style, tone, and even has the same main character, it is definitely a completely different book. While the first book is a coming of age story in 1960s Chicago, this one is more of a coming out story in 1970's SF... While I thought it was a little too graphic at the time while reading it (I definitely was not ex...more
this book was a sequel to coffee will make you black (which was great). this was so so.
im still reading it but so far i learned to just accept being yourself.
Not my type of genre.
what i Learned so far is, to accept yourself for who you are and if you can't then have someone show you how to except you for you.
i relly enjoy reading this book so far Steive the main cahracter in this book goes to coolege and meets new people who she bfreinds quicly mostly black and she has one white friend from paris who juat had an abortion they meat when they were about to fight each other and they ended up being goood friens tune in next tin=me......
A very interesting glimpse into the life of a young woman's journey of self-discovery.
Stevie is a character I really like. Roots in "Chicago" moved to San Fran, time in college and then time in "the lifestyle." A good story with a crew of good characters and situations.
sequel to Coffee will make you black--hilarious and touching.
I finshed reading this book I thought it waas really good!
This was a good read also.
This one, too, i loved.
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