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Title: "Shallow Reflections"
Review: What a life! Golfing with the Annenbergs! Lunching with Cardinals! Lots of fancy dinners and ribbon cuttings! But none of these are new revelations, all have been published as news items or in society columns. Whereas Mrs. Bush's first book was introspective, candidly revealing a bout with depression, her rocky relationship with her mother, and the difficulties associated with frequent moves due to her husband's career, this book is no more than a calendar log of her travels and daily activities. The deepest comment? "Wonderful" used frequently to describe grandchildren and friends.If literacy is such an important cause to her, why doesn't she take her son to task for taking steps to end funding of Head Start programs? What about her feelings concerning her granddaughter Noelle's well publicized drug problems? Her son Neil's messy divorce? Perhaps the editors removed her more pithy observations, but I was greatly disapointed by this shallow and unsatisfying book.
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