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Wow - What A GREAT Book!, December 23, 2009
This review is from: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: A Novel (Va Va Va Boom Series) (Paperback)
This is the kind of book that just makes you feel GOOD. For me, it's the epitome of what Contemporary Christian Fiction is all about! Great characters, believable plot, fantastic story, and a message about how to live as The Savior would want us to.
I instantly fell in love with Susan,(which happens to be my best friends name - in my real life), she is a hoot, and I felt connected to her from the get-go. Add in Miss Lilly (who is the spit'n image - minus the money- of my "foster mom", Arrine), who is elegant, savvy, professional, smart, richer than rich, and secure in her faith. Then blend in Michael (Susan's husband of 25 years), the Lovely Loretta (Susan's right hand woman at the Disco Diva), and you have a foursome that would be able to handle just about any situation. With the addition of Ryan, Tina, Jackie (at the end), and Susan's online pals, Bottke has written a masterpiece!!!
I'm a mature woman. I'm a mother and grandmother. I might be older, but I'm still kick'n, and it's so wonderful to be able to pick up a book and read about other Baby Boomers. I laughed, I cried, and I laughed some more. I do my best reading soaking in our spa(oh it's so wonderful)tub. I'll get myself some munchies, a big glass of grapefruit juice, and settle in for a nice long session. Usually I'm in the tub for about an hour or an hour and a half. This time, my husband had to drag me out, when I hit over the two hour mark. YES - that's how great this story is.
YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCING, did just that! Bravo...bravo...encore! I so look forward to more from Allison Bottke.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Chick Lit for a different generation, August 30, 2009
This review is from: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: A Novel (Va Va Va Boom Series) (Paperback)
I like a good chick-lit book and Allison Bottke's new book is touted as boomer-lit because it is about the baby boomer generation ladies. This is the first of three books in the series and it should be an entertaining series. In this first book we meet Susan and her husband and friends. Susan is known as the Disco Diva and lives and works in Las Vegas as a hair dresser at her own shop. She lives for the 70's and all things 70's. The more memorablia the better! She loves it all - the fashions, the music, the furniture and the stars and she has the collection to prove it. Her dream has always been to open a Disco Hall of Fame, but that is just a dream right? Now her husband is getting ready to retire, maybe just a little sooner than Susan was prepared for... and just maybe all those years of not telling her husband what exactly happened to her in the 70's is going to catch up with her. Overall this is a good book and for fans of the 70's it is probably fantastic! My biggest complaint is just that Susan has things a little too easy in the money department, that just made it a little "yeah, right" as far as I was concerned. Not everyone has unlimited access to money, and it made me not very sympathetic to her character. Other than that, this is a wonderful addition to the chick-lit category with an emphasis in boomer-lit!
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You Make Me Feel Like Dancing Review, August 19, 2009
This review is from: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: A Novel (Va Va Va Boom Series) (Paperback)
Susan is a woman who appears to have it all - a hip hair salon, Disco Diva, in Las Vagas, decorated with her collection of disco-era memorabilia who loves to dress the part in vintage designer clothing, many of her outfits from famous people. She is also on an online e-mail group called Boomer Babes Rock, where she shares with other ladies, her faith, prayer requests and life. There are many realistic story lines in this book, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: A Novel (Va Va Va Boom Series)book, including, a husband and wife floating apart, a husband's dreams that are not hers, and dreams of what she would like to accomplish, yet fears of sharing with her husband. Just as she thinks she can leap forward with her dream of enlarging her her hair salon, someone comes unexpectedly back into her life that shatters dreams and brings back memories she was hoping to leave behind. It's a story of healing, faith, and giving and taking along with working to make a marriage survive.
I do not read many fiction books, but I found myself understanding this woman who is about the same age as I am along with realities of a difficult past. This 437 paged book seemed to drag on at times and just when I thought I'd give up on it, something would happen that would keep me reading to the end. I think some of it could have been shortened, but overall, it's a fun book for the Baby Boomer era to read! It also includes book discussion questions at the end.
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