Using What You Got edition by Karen E Quinones Miller Literature Fiction eBooks
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Eighteen-year-old college student Tiara Bynum is as pretty as a princess and just as spoiled. Her castle is the Harlem housing project where she lives with her younger sister Jo-Jo, and her doting father, Reggie. Her fiefdom is the legion of men at her beck and call every time she snaps her perfectly manicured fingers. She has no qualms about flaunting her charms to get what she wants because she’s “got it like that.”
Tiara believes she’s the toast of the world. Her greatest goal is to find a rich, handsome man who will spoil her just as her father does-or maybe even more. Go for the glitter, she urges herself. Who cares if it’s gold? When two suitors arrive on the scene, Tiara prepares to be smitten. But when the one she secretly adores doesn’t like her attitude, Tiara’s trademark confidence frays into embarrassment, shame, and confusion.
Blindly determined to strike out on her own at any cost, Tiara lashes out against those who love her most. Yet the choices she makes, based on the way she’s been raised, threaten to destroy not only Tiara, but her entire family.
Using What You Got edition by Karen E Quinones Miller Literature Fiction eBooks
I really enjoyed this fastpaced read. This is my second book by this author. She has a way of weaving a tale that makes you think you are watching a movie. Tiara was a trip with her "yeah I got it like that". The only thing that was wrong with Tiara was that she was spoiled. I read another review where the reviewer states that if Tiara was all that why was she in the projects still. Hello duhh her father was working very hard I might add to get them out of their situation and also living in the projects does not mean that you have to have low self esteem. Because before I grew up and bought my own house I realized it wasn't where I lived but how I choose to carry myself. I still have friends that are single moms living in the pj's that are doing the Dayuum thing. Anyway........I am anticipating Ida B. GO Karen,Go Karen and by no means listen to the haters.........Peace TopazzzProduct details
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Using What You Got edition by Karen E Quinones Miller Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Reggie Bynum has a long and hard road to toll; he is a single father raising two teenage daughters in Harlem. On top of this, his sister Charlene (Charlie) visits often to cook and offer her own brand of discipline and advice. The novel is prefaced with a brief story of Reggie and Charlie as teenagers and the responsibilities put upon them. We get a glimpse of Reggie and his interactions with women, which sets the stage for his adulthood relationships. Reggie promises himself that he will never leave his family, like his father did, and will always provide what he can for them. Because of this affirmation, Reggie, a former professional gambler, takes a job as a garbage collector; it is honest and steady work. Reggie's wife Sharon and the girls' mother, abandons the family because of this decision.
Nineteen-year-old Tiara Bynum is a beautiful and smart college student and she knows it. She uses her looks to get what she wants; it is all about Tiara and she damns anyone who gets in her way. Sister Josephine (Jo-Jo) is a basketball phenomenon suffering through the growing pains of adolescence. She is typically Tiara's punching bag. Tiara is caught in a dangerous game because she has her eyes set on two young men; one who is interested in her and one who could not care less. Rashad presents a challenge to Tiara because no man has ever resisted her charm. Rashad is a cab driver and film school student. Lionel presents a different challenge to Tiara; he is rich and able to provide her with any tangible item her little heart desires. Lionel has a dark side and the entire family is caught up in his web of deceit.
Using What You Got offers some life lessons that can be enjoyed by both teenagers and adults. Miller has offered a very realistic and engaging look into the trials and tribulations that many families can go through based on poor decision making; the meaning of family first and forgiveness.
Reviewed by Dawn R. Reeves
APOOO BookClub
With her third book firmly under her belt, readers will learn that Karen Quinones Miller is absolutely here to stay! In "Using What You Got," Ms. Miller uses a much gritter style of writing than previously seen in her first two books. But the language and situations ring crystal clear and utterly true for who and where her characters are where they live, how they live, and where they come from.
In this book, we meet the overindulged, self-absorbed Tiara. Girlfriend is smooth as silk and fine as wine. A legion in her own mind. Just when you think this chick doesn't have one redeeming quality, we find that she is nothing short of a brainiac and sporatic bouts of random acts of kindness that has nothing to do with how it is going to benefit her. Like everything else in her life, learning comes as easilty to Tiara as the latest pair of designer jeans or whatever she can conjole out of her father. Men have also been easy for Tiara to acquire, whether she wanted them or not. That is, until she meets the one that doesn't seem to be that impressed with what she has to offer. Should she be satisfied with the man with the money, the car, the clothes and the style to give her the lifestyle she wants or will she throw it all away to get the one that got away? Also, while it seems that Tiara and her younger sister, Jo-Jo, who loves sports almost as much as irritating Tiara, have nothing in common, we learn that when push comes to shove, Tiara is more than ready to throw down to defend and protect her baby sister.
Next, we also meet the handsome and very responsible Reggie, Jo-Jo and Tiara's father who has raised them almost entirely by himself when their mother runs off shortly after Jo-Jo's birth. Reggie is the kind of man any woman would love to get her hands on. He's an ex-boxer who is still fine and sexy as all get out. He is assisted by his seemingly forever cranky sister, Charlene, whom everyone calls Charlie. Charlie has her own substory and probably could carry her own book. There is a lot of unspoken, undealt with pain over an accident from when she was a teenager that forever changes how Charlie sees herself, and has clouded how she lives her life. However, through her own changes and disappointments in life, Charlie is right there to help Reggie with raising his beloved daughters.
Using What You Got is about what it means to be a sibling, a family, a friend and a lover. Its about learning to love your family, even when you don't always necessarily like them, finding out who your true friends are as well as learning to be a friend, and everything that glitters is not gold. Quinones Miller covers all the bases with this one, and she covers them well!
I've read much better by this author.
Favorite book!! This is literally my third time reading it. This author has a great ability to keep your interest throughout the storyline with her relatable topics
I did not like this book, I thought it was rather drawn out. I was almost at the end of the book when it got somewhat interesting! It was way to much time spend on Tiara, and she was not even a well develop character. It took me almost 3 weeks to finish this book. I just kept hoping that it was going to get better. But it was not a good read. I do not recommend this book. I have to agree with some of the other people, Mrs. Karen E. Quinones Miller. " YOU DO NOT HAVE IT LIKE THAT".
I really enjoyed this fastpaced read. This is my second book by this author. She has a way of weaving a tale that makes you think you are watching a movie. Tiara was a trip with her "yeah I got it like that". The only thing that was wrong with Tiara was that she was spoiled. I read another review where the reviewer states that if Tiara was all that why was she in the projects still. Hello duhh her father was working very hard I might add to get them out of their situation and also living in the projects does not mean that you have to have low self esteem. Because before I grew up and bought my own house I realized it wasn't where I lived but how I choose to carry myself. I still have friends that are single moms living in the pj's that are doing the Dayuum thing. Anyway........I am anticipating Ida B. GO Karen,Go Karen and by no means listen to the haters.........Peace Topazzz
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