Coffee & Kung Fu
Registered by alrescate of Strafford, Missouri USA on 10/31/2003
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
8 journalers for this copy...
This is the story of a 26 year old woman living in Boston who loves kung fu movies and works as a copy editor at a graphic design company.
When I first started reading this I thought, great, another lame "chick" book. I kept reading and discovered this story had a bit more depth to it than most of the typical chick lit books that seem to be all the rage. It isn't great literature and the plot is somewhat predictable but it is a nice light read.
When I first started reading this I thought, great, another lame "chick" book. I kept reading and discovered this story had a bit more depth to it than most of the typical chick lit books that seem to be all the rage. It isn't great literature and the plot is somewhat predictable but it is a nice light read.
More fluff to help me recover from this semester. :-) Thanks, alrescate!
1/21/04: I've lost this one in a bet with Eriko1908, so I'm bumping it up in the TBR list.
1/21/04: I've lost this one in a bet with Eriko1908, so I'm bumping it up in the TBR list.
A while back I heard somebody complaining that this book had too much graphic sex in it, and I'm not a big fan of that sort of thing, so I was half expecting not to finish this book. Yeah, I did some skimming, but considering the context of Nicci's last encounter with Rob, and the complete lack of real meaning in their relationship, I think it is important for some of those scenes to be just about the sex.
Mainly I think I liked this book because I indentify so well with Nicci. Forget Bridget Jones, this is the perfect chick lit read for the Gen X underachiever.
Tomorrow I'll mail this out to Erica.
Mainly I think I liked this book because I indentify so well with Nicci. Forget Bridget Jones, this is the perfect chick lit read for the Gen X underachiever.
Tomorrow I'll mail this out to Erica.
This one arrived in my mailbox today!! Thanks stinalyn!! (I'd forgotten that it was headed in my direction...I LOVE SURPRISES!!)
Thank-you also for the Box-Tops!! My son sooooooo enjoys bringing these in for his class...every little one helps!! :o)
Thank-you also for the Box-Tops!! My son sooooooo enjoys bringing these in for his class...every little one helps!! :o)
I really enjoyed this one…I, too, was bothered by the sex between Nicci & Rob at one point…but then I also realized that this is the way it had to be…I found myself very jealous of Nicci at the end of this one…I wanted to be able to make the choices she made…I want to be able to take a big step in my life…maybe someday I will find courage…maybe someday somebody will speak to me the way her grandpa spoke to her…and hopefully I will be listening!! I wish her all the luck in the world!! :o)
As is my habit, I like to share passages from a book when I really can relate to them…this one had a number of them:
This is an outright lie, of course. Everyone is always interested in hooking up with someone. Sure, we like to pretend that we aren’t really looking, but we’re all looking just the same. We’re not exempt from evolution. And evolution tends to produce animals whose main goal is perpetuation of the species. So, yeah, we’re all looking. It’s just whether or not the looking should turn into the hassle of mating and trying to get along with another human being for the rest of your life. ~ page 3
”I was lonely,” he said.
Lonely. No one is ever lonely. They’re bored. They’re sad. They’re depressed. They’re horny. But never, ever lonely. Being lonely means no one likes you. Being lonely means you don’t have any friends. Being lonely means you’re…alone. ~ page 23
The moment isn’t a piece of time, it’s a question. A realization. A trauma. The moment comes when you look up andyou’re your life stretching out for seventy more years. And there, in front of you, like a giant roadblock, is the question: Is this the life good enough for the next seventy years? But maybe that’s the easy question. The next logical question--Can I live like this?--is the killer. Because it isn’t a yes or no kind of question. It’s a do or die kind of question. ~ page 107
From the moment the doctor (or nurse) slapped me on the ass and forced me to take that first breath, I’ve been making decisions. And each decision pulls up a new set of variables and starts me down the path to more decisions, which in turn create additional new variables requiring even more decisions… ~ page 180-181
Okay…I’ll stop there…and yes I did leave a little bit of the book left for future readers to enjoy themselves…I just couldn’t resist sharing!!
I’m holding this one to drop into a chick-lit box that should be coming my way soon. Hope everybody enjoys!! :o)
Journal Entry 6 by rem_ZWU-580656 at Chick Lit Perpetual Bookbox in -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Release planned for Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at Chick lit Perpetual Bookbox in Bookbox, postal release USA.
Sending on it's way in Booknose's direction. :o)
Sending on it's way in Booknose's direction. :o)
Pulled from the chicklit bookbox yesterday. Adding to TBR for now.
Received this in the mail today. Thank you so much, ramson!
Journal Entry 9 by CandyDarling at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Gave to another bookcrosser at the Helsinki meet-up.
Looked very tempting so I took it. Thanks!
I absolutely loved this! I didn't care for Rob at all and some Nicci's action made me go mad but hey, it's chicklit. In the back reads like this: Made me want to run out and rent a Kung Fu movie. I couldn't agree more:D I'm thrilled that I picked this up from the meetup, I was pondering against it awhile.
Annimannille Hep-ketjusta.
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Received with thanks!
I've grown pretty tired of chick lit but this was quite enjoyable. The kung fu stuff seemed a bit superfluous, but otherwise a good read. Thanks for sharing!
Journal Entry 15 by Annimanni at Voipaalan taidekeskus, Sääksmäki in Valkeakoski, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland on Thursday, June 25, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (7/25/2015 UTC) at Voipaalan taidekeskus, Sääksmäki in Valkeakoski, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
To be released at the Finnish Summer UnCon book buffet!
Journal Entry 16 by 
pippis
at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Sunday, July 26, 2015
pippis at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Sunday, July 26, 2015
Took the book from UnCon table to take it along to UK hols!
Journal Entry 17 by pippis at Leake Street Tunnel in Waterloo, Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, August 7, 2015
pippis at Leake Street Tunnel in Waterloo, Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, August 7, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (8/7/2015 UTC) at Leake Street Tunnel in Waterloo, Greater London United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Book was left to my fav free art exhibition! Happy reading!This is a Tourist Spot release for summer 2015 (more on Finnish forum)! Not too many tourists even dare to enter the Leake St tunnel, but it's a definite go to!
