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Title: Terrible. Awful.
Review: Bushnell parenthetically inserts herself three times in this book to explain various trite phrases this way: "It was a cliche, but it was true." This whole book is a cliche. And it might be true. But by the time it's over, you won't care. You'll just be glad to be free of these half-inch-deep characters.Sure, there's the average writing. And the unbelievably obtrusively contrived "twists". And the way that you can look across the book to see the ending the way you can look across Texas to the horizon. But mostly I was overcome with feeling very sorry for Bushnell, if "Trading Up" and this book represent the way she views people. And I felt horrified for her husband, to whom the book is dedicated, because there's only one male (man or boy) in the book who isn't a cuckold and/or a complete jerk, and that one is a cardboard cutout.That was the last book of hers that I'll ever read.
