Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige [Paperback]

Kathleen Gilles Seidel (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (May 13, 2008)
• ASIN: B001AQBXFE
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrifically smart and funny read, May 28, 2008

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Eclectic Reader (Maryland USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige (Hardcover)

WONDERFUL book! I'm tempted to reread it immediately because I like Seidel's voice so much. The narrator, Darcy, is an ICU nurse with two sons and a fairly recent, fairly amiable divorce. Then her older son, who is graduating from college and going on to med school and his similarly directed girlfriend decide to get married--and life changes. <g>

The future daughter-in-law, Cami Zander-Brown, is really nice even though her parents have this 12 bedroom beach house in the Hamptons and tons of money. But the Zander-Browns are good people, and the family includes a medically fragile youngest child and some complicated relationships.

Darcy, as mother of the groom, finds that her ex's new girlfriend, a Martha Stewartish blogging queen, wants to take over the wedding and edit out anything that isn't in Perfect Taste, and that includes Darcy.

But that's just the basic set-up. Seidel is an absolute master of insightful relationships, and all the many characters are beautifully delineated. This is women's fiction at its best--as entertaining as it is thoughtful. Highly recommended.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Realistic characters in real-life situations, June 28, 2008

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Betsey Shapiro "CruiseAuthor" (Foster City, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige (Hardcover)

Although this book started off slowly, and seemed to sit on my nightstand forever before I picked it up, once I did, I couldn't put it down. The characters are vivid and real, and the modern-day dilemmas and situtations are astonishingly real.

Betsey Shpiro, Author "Queen's Hostess"

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bit too beige for me..., June 3, 2008

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This review is from: Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige (Hardcover)

I've loved KGS for a long time and have read every book she's written. She used to write category romances, moved on to longer more complex romances and her past 2 books haven't had any romance per se in them at all. I miss the romance. I love the characters she creates, who feel so real, like friends next door. I like her dramas and dilemmas are all real world and pertinent. But I miss the romance.

So I bought this hard cover and it has a few shining moments, but I would have liked a bit more passion in it.