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5.0
Life here was weighted with the vague feeling that if anything was happening, it was happening wherever one wasn’t. Maybe that accounted for all the driving…Eleven million people scurrying around, trying to find the exclusive exciting event that would make them feel at the center of something big.
Mimi Fitzhenry is the type of living-in-Hollywood character who chooses to host book club because she had her apartment cleaned rather than pick up her sister, whom she hasn’t seen in seven years and who is flying 21 hours from Nairobi. Mouse, the sister, is only returning because Mimi’s phone call to her was so garbled that she thinks their mother is dying after being hit on the head by a ceiling fan. Mimi’s take-away from the conversation is that Mouse is getting married, which is she is not. These are just two small pieces of the foundation for Karen Karbo’s witty delight, The Diamond Lane.
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thebookchubi's review
4.0
This was a surprisingly charming story that is surprising difficult to describe. You have a sister who has been in Africa away from her family finally returning home to L.A. where her sister has been stuck trying to succeed in a city that seems increasingly void of it. The characters defy their own stories by trying to take control of how it is told to others all while appearing to forget how to live their life in the first place. Like I said, hard to describe. It is a light and enjoyable book.
enidsorko's review
1.0
I quit on page 60. This book seemed to be trying too hard- the author wanted it to be maniacally funny, but it just came off as maniacal. It seemed like a rip-off of Get Shorty to me. Blah.
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