Emma's review
The Dirty Girls Social Club: A Novel
by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (Goodreads author!)
Emma's review
The Dirty Girls Social Club: A Novel by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (Goodreads author!)
Emma's review
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didn-t-finish
Meh...started reading it, made it in about 50 pages and decided to stop. Ok, it wasn't even 40. I thought I'd like it, because I love Valdes-Rodriguez's blog and her resignation letter at the LA Times, which was 3,000 words or something ridiculous but pretty entertaining. I figured if a writer could really exploit the possibilities in the resignation letter genre, chick lit would be no problem.
But this was like a weak, novelized version of her rant against the Times. The narrator is a weak, novelized version of herself. If you know her backstory, you can see the shades of her own story in all the characters and that seemed to ruin it for me. And her writing just wasn't as good. It seems like she dumbed things down for the chick lit crowd, which would be super-uncool.
She always has something intriguing to say about race and politics and art and writing and it's a lot easier to appreciate what she says without a heavy-handed narrative.
Check out one of her blogs:
http://alisavaldesrodriguez.bl...
Oh,...more
But this was like a weak, novelized version of her rant against the Times. The narrator is a weak, novelized version of herself. If you know her backstory, you can see the shades of her own story in all the characters and that seemed to ruin it for me. And her writing just wasn't as good. It seems like she dumbed things down for the chick lit crowd, which would be super-uncool.
She always has something intriguing to say about race and politics and art and writing and it's a lot easier to appreciate what she says without a heavy-handed narrative.
Check out one of her blogs:
http://alisavaldesrodriguez.bl...
Oh,...more
