Nika Beamon’s new release, I Didn’t Work This Hard Just To Get Married, is an ambitious collection of personal stories from a carefully selected group of professional women who discuss what it means to be successful, black, single, and happy. I enjoyed this book because it is practical and easy to read. Yet, no book is perfect and Beamon’s book is no exception to the rule. From the book’s suggestive title to the particularly interesting socio-economic class from which Beamon chose her subjects, this book perhaps sheds light on an even deeper matter percolating within this selective group of bachelorettes than they may realize..…..(click here to continue)
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It’s interesting how different people can read the same book, yet see a dramatically different messages.
I’ve read “I didn’t work this hard just to get married” and I didn’t find that the characters were putting “… all of the blame for the single-black-successful-sista syndrome is placed squarely on the backs of black men.”
Instead, it seemed that most of the women have found what a lot of people lack…a love of themselves and were not afraid of being with themselves.
Maybe I just read the good parts of the book….
i suppose that women will ‘read’ this book differently than men. white readers will view it differently than hispanics; white women differently than black ones, etc. Maybe thats “how different people can read the same book, yet see a dramatically different messages”
I think that is true for many things, especially books. It is like several people witnessing an event and everyone sees something different. Some things about the event may be shared among the viewers, but in the end, it is all left to interpretation.