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Title: Junk reading to avoid
Review: I like to read good "junk" every now and then, but this one deserves to be thrown away. What's not to hate? Tedious plotting; irrelevant, manipulative scenes; repetitive and ridiculous dialogue; an immature, unsympathetic, seriously irritating main character; unrealistic, one-dimensional minor characters; distracting stupidities (What baby toilet trains herself at 13 months? What parent of a nursing baby doesn't know you never microwave breast milk?). Before you read this book, ask yourself how many times you can stand hearing the name "Julia"? "Julia." "Julia." "Julia." How many times can you bear hearing a character answer the phone with "Julia? Julia?" instead of "hello." (Why doesn't she have caller ID on her cell phone?) How many excruciating descriptions of walking a dog or changing a diaper or arguing with a family member can you tolerate? I spent more time mentally yelling at the author than I did contemplating the plot or characters.
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