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Joanie
Nov 28, 2008 rated it did not like it
This book was really not good at all. We picked for the Totally Trashy book club thinking it would be a fun, cheesy read but it was pure torture. I guess I can see how it could have been seen as shocking for it's time but in present day it's just pathetic and annoying and not the least bit sexy.

The main character spends most of the book wondering "who am I if I don't have a man? What does my life mean?" How that was supposed to be the example of a liberated woman is beyond me. She goes from bad
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