Smart Women
by Judy Blume
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Author: Judy BlumeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-04
ISBN: 0425206556
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Berkley Trade
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Book Review: Great book that applies to today
Summary: 5 Stars
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This was a very funny and interesting book to read, and as Judy Bloom said herself, the situations are still the same today, regardless of online dating ads (as opposed to newspaper ads back then) relationships are still relationships. Some charactors were not likable (because of trageties they had to face) but you learned to understand them; you love most of the woman; the men might be a little harder to understand and need a bit of standing up to. I liked when Margo finally stood up to her boyfriend. He was kind of taking her for granted when he stoped acting like her boyfriend and started acting distant with her after bringing his child there to live with her and imposing his problems on her. Although understandable, he kind of needed a talking to. I found it so funny when the daughter was in the hot tub with her mother's 20 something year old ex and her mother caught her; she felt so awkward all she could say was next time please ask before using the hot-tup. I supposed any woman could empathise with Margo, even if the only thing you have in common is that you dated men.
Margo was divored but fincanially stable, as she made a good living and was married to a dentist. She was happy with the life she lived, financially and did not care about meeting somebody with money. She was going to be on her own soon, her children soon in college. She was glad that was was going to have her freedom soon and not have anybody to look after, but she wanted somebody to share a life with, somebody who did not have young children. She dated a lot and was intimate with men, but it seemed she was ready to leave the exciting dating world for something more comfortable and serious. Unfortunately,her boyfriend had a daughter who lived with him. I think she started to really love the daughter even if the daughter did not believe it, but that was open for interpretation. Margo's boyfriend was not poor or a deadbeat in anyway, but he did give up a well paid job to write books, which understandably I think his ex did not approve of.
Bloom also gets into what happened before the woman were divorced, which helped you understand them. Margo married young and it seemed she was living the life that most woman want, but with a man she did not love, or she was not ready for the comfortable secure married life. Unhappy right from the begining, she cheated on her husband on her honeymoon. Her bitter unhappily married sister tried to talk her out of it, while her mother (who seemed to have a very happy marriage even later in the book) kept telling her she was doing the right thing and that she was marrying the right man. It was interesting to see the two persective.
BB, who was half Jewish, was told as a child by her mother that she should marry a Jewish man, because her mother was unhappy in her marriage to somebody who was not Jewish, which she does but divorces him (later Margo's boyfriend) after their son died in a car addident with her husband was driving. However, Margo's charactor did not seem that likable, even before she lost her son, there was nothing in the begining that convinced you to love her charactor. Bloom did not develop her charactor in a way that would make you fall in love with her, which is fine, but you feel like you have to sympathise. She just did not give me a good vive; I feel like if Margo had BB's peronality later, after being depressed, you would have known that was not her.
I love the 80s (even though I was a child myself then). It Reminds me of the 80s music and movies, and even Judy Blooms children's books. You could kind of picture 80s music in the background if you remember to keep in mind that it is the 80s.
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Margo and B.B. are each divorced, and each is trying to reinvent her life in Colorado-while their respective teenage daughters look on with a mixture of humor and horror. But even smart women sometimes have a lot to learn-and they will, when B.B.'s ex-husband moves in next door to Margo...United States Books
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