A Meeting in the Ladies Room

by Anita Doreen Diggs

Book Overview

It's not easy being black in an overwhelmingly white industry, but even when the going gets tough, Jackie keeps her eye on the big prize - promotion to executive editor. Besides that, her biggest problem is her unrequited love for Victor Bell, a member of her weekly professional group. This is her most pressing concern until the morning her boss is suddenly murdered. It seems that Jackie was the last person to see her alive, and the circumstances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0758202342
• ISBN13: 9780758202345
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Dafina Books
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Read

I read this book in a day. I really enjoyed it. A definite must read. Although I am a little confused at to what the title has to do with the book...

A GREAT READ!

Jackie blue is a black executive in publishing world and gets accused of murdering her boss. The author kept the story moving, I can't say that there was a slow part in the whole book. The author didn't give an overkill of background information; everything was just as it should. This was a fun and satisfying book. BUY IT YOU WILL LOVE IT!

All I can say is ?oh my?

Anita Diggs, Meeting In The Ladies Room was the best read I?ve had in a long time. Jacqueline Blue?s brush with the law had me in stitches. Yes, I know it was a serious situation, however, Ms. Diggs satirical use of dialog and language kept me chuckling throughout the entire book. The main character?s obsession for Victor was enough to carry the book, so yes; adding in all the rest made it ?the read of the year? for me. I can tell Ms. Diggs had fun writing this book and it showed. I look forward to her next fictional effort.

WONDERFUL!

This book took hold of me from the first sentence and wouldn't let me go. Instead of a ghetto drama, this story has a lot of intelligence, great research and a great plot. The story is set in New York City and is about Jacqueline Blue, a woman who has a fabulous career, supportive mother and a great friend named Paul Dodson. Does she appreciate these blessings? No. She'd rather spend her time dreaming about having sex with a man named Victor who would rather eat dirt than sleep with her. Then Jacqueline's boss is killed and she sees what a great life she had before the cell doors slammed in her face. The ending is a shock and Paul is the world's biggest fool. BUY IT. READ IT. It's one hell of a story!

JACKIE OH!

I was introduced to Anita Doreen Diggs through the dark and captivating A MIGHTY LOVE. I loved her writing and particularly her dialogue which is the way real black folks talk. Because A MIGHTY LOVE was so moving, I decided to read A MEETING IN THE LADIES ROOM. Her second novel gets off to a slow start but if you hang with it past the first two chapters, you won't be able to put it down. If you like murder mysteries, tales of suspense, tales of lust and sexual obsession and tales of unrequited love, its all here in one compact little story. I have learned a whole lot about the dark side of book publishing and a lot of other things from A Meeting In The Ladies Room. But it wasn't totally bleak. The author is quite funny. Her hilarious description of THE BLACK PACK which is a group of African Americans who work in the book publishing industry is worth the price of the book itself. The heroine of the book is Jacqueline Blue, a book editor, who is accused of murdering her white boss. Although Jackie does work hard to extricate herself out of this frightening position, she spends a whole lot of time obsessing and fantasizing about Victor Bell - the man of her dreams. A man who isn't feeling her at all. Sometimes I wanted to shake Jackie until her neck rattled for giving so much energy to the Victor chase. But the truly tragic figure in the book is Paul....a man who loves Jackie with all his heart and who is willing to settle for half a woman instead of walking away.To put it simply, A MEETING IN THE LADIES ROOM is an expertly written, highly entertaining and amusing work of suspense by an author who is clearly on her way up. Do yourself a favor and read this book. Do it for a look at the way the book publishing industry works; do it for a look at the crap African Americans who work in that industry have to take; do it because you've once chased a guy who didn't want you; do it because you've once let a good man down and you now regret it. Just read it!