Ninety-Nine and a Half: Just Won't Do (Urban Soul) Review

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(More customer reviews)Kimberly Matthews has done it again. Admittedly I didn't warm up to Genesis Taylor quite as quickly as I did to December Elliott (The Perfect Shoe) but when I did, it was on! (smile)
The reader is drawn into Genesis' humble, ordinary life complete with struggles that were handed down from her family rather than created by her own hands. In an effort to "come up" she relies on quick rather than honorable to create a new reality for herself. Unfortunately she fools even herself and allows it to go to her head somewhat. Just as in life, things come full circle and she ends up having to meet herself and confront her personal prejudices and lifelong opinions in order to get what is best for her.
Along the way we have to deal with Taunya who seriously made me understand why some people dump their friends on the way up. That girl was pure trouble even when she didn't mean to be. Karilyn made me want to leave where I was (at the time of the reading) and walk to Hampton Virginia to knock her slam out! My blood pressure was up reading the last fourth of the novel.
I appreciated the ending (which I will not give away) but I felt that the author wrapped up each part of the storyline in the right manner.
Once again, a very good read.
Oh and Aungie? Now THAT was a trip! LOL


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The pink palace: Behind closed doors at the Beverly Hills Hotel Review

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(More customer reviews)Built by an oil company that struck water, the Beverly Hills catered to wealthy Easterners wintering in Southern California. It's owners have included Irene Dunne, Loretta Young and Hernando Courtright, a flamboyant showman who made the Beverly Hills the most chic place in town.
Gable had his affair with Lombard here. Yves Montand with Marilyn Monroe, John Kennedy with a gagglt of girls - during the Presidential campaign. Evelyn Keyes with Mike Todd, pre-Elizabeth Taylor. Howard Hughes kept four bungalows, but allowed the plumbing to be used in only two of them. Ali McGraw fooled around with Steve McQueen, who wasn't her husband. Joanne Woodward with Paul Newman, who was.
It's said that more movie deals have been made in this dimly-lit cocktail lounge than in all the studio offices in town. Paramount Pictures was sold over drinks to Gulf and Western. Arthur Miller talked Clark Gable into doing The Misfits, the film that killed him. Cary Grant conseled Lance Reventlow on the fine points of divorce during the latter's shedding of Jill Saint John. President Sukarno of Indonesia ogled Marilyn Monroe across the room and then decided to transfer his entourage of two hundred from the Ambassador to the Beveryl Hills. Warren Beatty spotted Leslie Caron among the artificial plants and began his pursuit. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra started a brawl and were officially banned. W.C. Fields requested and received a table for two - for him and his man-eating plant.
This is a look at the people and hapopenings that have made the Beverly Hills one of THE spots to be seen - and not be seen. Here is glamour, gossip, and an absorbing study of how a legend was made.


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