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Title: A Round-Heeled Woman : My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance by Jane Juska ISBN: 1-4000-6011-7 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (32 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Very Sad
Comment: Despite her feminist/liberal bleatings, Juska ends up sounding like a 14 year old girl pining away for true love. I ultimately found this book very sad. Her journey starts out interesting and beguiling, but midway through I found her pretentious, shallow, and horribly co-dependant. That she hadn't changed a bit by the end left me feeling cheated and irritated.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting, but surprisingly passionless
Comment: I'll agree with other reviewers that Jane Juska's brave both in her life and writing. Before writing her now-famous ad and embarking on a later life quest for nooky, she braved single parenthood and teamed up with the ACLU to file a suit against her school district. In her book she's open about her dark places: the crush on her analyst, her drinking, her childhood sexual abuse. I admire her, and the book was a pleasant read.
And yet...I felt that I only got glimpses of this vibrant woman. Juska's good at setting up her romantic disappointments -- the book overflows with sentences like "I didn't know then the sadness that would come." But when the crushing moments did come, they fell flat and left me unmoved. I wanted to feel her pain, her struggle, her joy -- but Juska's love of books got in the way. (This is coming from an avid reader and lit major -- I share her love.) She spends so much of the book stuck in her head and building a wall with her words that by the end I felt I really didn't know her at all.
I also finished the book feeling that there was something dark lurking underneath the surface of it all -- something that Juska, despite her talent for self-examination and disclosure, was unwilling to look at or reveal. Her son's troubles, the father fixation, the drinking...there's more going on here that she's not telling or doesn't know.
Rating: 4
Summary: Jerry Springer for English Majors
Comment: How does a person write a revealing memoir like this and still have the guts to go out in public? A Round-Heeled Woman reads like a personal diary. So I have to hand it to Juska, it took courage to write this book.
I was expecting a light-hearted memoir of adventures and misadventures in dating, with the twist being that the heroine is 67 years old. This memoir is occasionally light-hearted, but more often depressing, when Juska reminisces about her lonely childhood, or her even lonelier marriage. And when she starts dating again, after placing the personal ad, well, sometimes, I just wanted to shake her. She goes out with a series of men who are unsuitable in one way or another. Married, bonkers, or just plain cads. But she gives every one a chance and then some.
A Round-Heeled Woman is like watching Jerry Springer (but with an English degree), and I have no one to blame for reading it all the way through except myself. I just couldn't look away.
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Title: The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction by J. H. Blair ISBN: 0425172252 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 07 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Older Couples: New Romances: Finding & Keeping Love in Later Life by Edith Ankersmit, L.C.S.W. Kemp, Jerrold E., Ed.D. Kemp ISBN: 1587611562 Publisher: Celestial Arts Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Wife: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer ISBN: 0684869403 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet, Adriana Hunter ISBN: 0802139868 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Hot Spots: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction by J. H. Blair ISBN: 0425178374 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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