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Title: Taming It Down by Kim McLarin ISBN: 0-446-67574-1 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a rarely told, but very real story
Comment: such a great novel! and so very real for black women who get caught up and dragged around emotionally by predominatly white, upper-middle class environments. i read it quickly and eagerly, hoping that Hope had the answers that many of us do not. how many stories are written about straddling the fence between racial worlds? this is a book i plan to share with my mother, who often wonders (silently) what my world is like.
Rating: 4
Summary: I Love This Author!!!!!
Comment: I first read Ms McLarin's sophomore novel "Meeting of the Waters" and was so impressed that I ordered this novel. Once again she has shown what an undeniable gift for story-telling she has. I found myself alternately nodding my head in assent then shaking it in disbelief. At times I laughed so hard that tears streamed down my face. Other times I just wanted to reach into the pages of the book and shake some common sense into Hope. Though McLarin does show some growth as a writer in Meeting of the Waters in the sense that it was a little more structured with better defined secondary characters, it seemed to be missing some of the humor and whimsy in this novel. All in all, I love both novel and anxiously await her next.
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful, thought-provoking story!
Comment: I read McLarin's second book ("Meeting of the Waters") first and was so impressed, I couldn't wait to read "Taming it Down." McLarin's Hope is a woman on the verge, forced to be the voice of her people when she is just an individual. The book flowed so smoothly and honestly, I wondered if it was a memoir disguised as a novel.
If I have one criticism, it is that the obit incident where Hope incorrectly attributed the wrong medal to a deceased war veteran and was reamed by the widow was duplicated in both books (?).
It is obvious many of the "reviewers"--and I use that term loosely--are haters! Sign your names, cowards, and stand behind your words! These are the same people McLarin writes about in the voice of her character, Hope. They are the people who "just don't get it" and go through life without any real worries in the world, never thinking about race because THEY are the problem. Of course, Hope is the extreme case, but "Taming it Down" is a fictionalized version of what happens in the workplace--and the rest of society--when a certain people are left out of the equation. Had the U.S. constitution included ALL people when it was first written, we wouldn't have the problems we are having now.
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Title: Meeting of the Waters : A Novel by Kim McLarin ISBN: 0060505877 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lovers' Choice: Stories by Becky Birtha ISBN: 1878067419 Publisher: Seal Press (WA) Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Color of Love by Sandra Kitt ISBN: 0451184270 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Known World by Edward P. Jones ISBN: 0060557540 Publisher: Amistad Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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