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Playing with Boys
Playing with Boys
Author: Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
ISBN-13: 9780312332358
ISBN-10: 0312332351
Publication Date: 7/1/2005
Pages: 368
Rating:
  • Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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2.9 stars, based on 55 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2
This book was great. It was very well written, very funny and entertaining. Great for any Chick Lit fan!
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This book was fantastic!!!
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Another great book by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.
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Helpful Score: 1
Very enjoyable story by a wonderful story-teller!
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Helpful Score: 1
Great read following the three lives of three very different latina women and how then come to be friends.
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Helpful Score: 1
I just couldn't seem to get into this one, it took me forever to read but the ending was good.
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Playing wiht Boys is a testament to the power of women wrapped up in a pretty Cinderella story times three!!
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I FOUND THIS BOOK AT THE DOLLAR STORE...AND I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN... GAVE ME A NEW GENRE OF BOOKS AND AUTHORS TO READ.
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I love all of her books..fun chic lit, with cultural interest
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I liked her first book better, but still a great read. This author just goes places with pop fiction that are smarter, riskier, and more real than her contemporaries. Time magazine named her "the Godmother of Chica lit" in their list of most influential Hispanic Americans.
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funny chick book with lots of hispanic interpretation!
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Cute book..much like her first one..enjoyed!
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OK read. Helps pass the time.
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This is a book about family, friendship, and overcoming adversity. Story of 3 Latina women in LA and their friendship and lives. I really liked this book!
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Not so good. I could have done without this one.
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If you thought the women in Alisa Valdes-Rodriguezs first novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, had attitude, wait until you read her newly published Playing with Boys.Dallas Morning News Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez broke onto the scene with The Dirty Girls Social Club, a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and one of the top debut novels of 2003. Even more amazing was the response to Dirty Girls in trade paperback. Already in its 9th printing and with over 250,000 copies in print, the Dirty Girls paperback has been reaching an eager audience of young American women whose Hispanic side had been overlooked by commercial novels. In Playing with Boys, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguezs delicious new novel, three Latinas in their late twenties take Los Angeles by storm. Marcella, Olivia and Alexis have bonded not only over men but about how tough it is to make life work in L.A. Marcella is a hot young television actress, hardly able to enjoy the life shes bought for herself and certainly not enjoying her body, which is never quite perfect enough. Olivias boy is her toddler sonand shes tethered to him and to her suburban mommy track so tightly the other girls sometimes cringe. Alexis has a smart mouth and an ample body; shes a beautiful musicians manager with loads of style but about enough self-esteem to fill a Prada card case. Her complicated love affair with the casually sexy Cuban rapper Goyo is a deeply satisfying romance that will delight readers almost as much as the emotional richness and girly fun of the heroines friendship.
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good easy to read book likeher previous, the dirty girls social club
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This is great chick lit. You'll love it.
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This actually as a hardcopy version of the book...