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Live a Little

Kim Green

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Hachette Book Group USA

Pub. Date: August, 2008

ISBN-13: 9780345501103

384pp

 

 

 

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When I first cracked open Live a Little by Kim Green, I mistakenly thought the premise would was about a woman who gets a breast cancer diagnosis, changes her life for the better, and then later finds out she is healthy - Kind of like the movie Last Holiday with Queen Latifah.  But I was wrong.  The main character Raquel Rose, is a California housewife with a husband and two teenagers living an ordinary life, when she gets a diagnosis of breast cancer.  A week or so later, she finds out it was a misdiagnosis and instead of telling her family, she uses the cancer as an excuse to change her life.  The reason she does such a drastic thing is because her kids and husband start treating her better and she gets the chance to tell her story on a television talk show. She believes she is doing good because she is helping raise a lot of money for breast cancer from the television show.

 

As I started reading more into Live a Little by Kim Green, I could not wrap my mind around this premise and reading the rest of the book didn’t change my struggles.  The author, Kim Green, has a witty sense of humor with her writing, but I could not relate to this character or to the fact that she would deceive people with the fact that she had breast cancer.  Kim Green is a talented writer with genuinely funny moments, including some of my favorites, which were about the trials of motherhood and being a housewife.  I just wish she would have stuck to that subject. It actual story just didn’t catch on with me.  But let me encourage you to judge Live a Little for yourself.  I would still read other books by Kim Green.

 

Book Room Grade

C-

 

Review Posted:  August 13, 2008

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