Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom
16 journalers for this copy...
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Description from the publisher's Web site:
"Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs from one loser to another, searching for love. As for Violet, she gets angry in ways that are by turns infuriating, shocking, and hilarious.
When her mother takes up with the unfortunately named Dudley Wiener, Violet and her friend Phoebe decide that they need to take control. If Violet's mom can't pick a decent man herself, they will help her snag George Clooney."
Description from the publisher's Web site:
"Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs from one loser to another, searching for love. As for Violet, she gets angry in ways that are by turns infuriating, shocking, and hilarious.
When her mother takes up with the unfortunately named Dudley Wiener, Violet and her friend Phoebe decide that they need to take control. If Violet's mom can't pick a decent man herself, they will help her snag George Clooney."
Susin Nielsen's first book, Word Nerd, is among my favourite YA books, and I enjoyed this one almost as much. I love Nielsen's quirky, memorable characters and the hilarious situations they find themselves in.
I've reserved this book for the Cross-Canada Bookbox.
I've reserved this book for the Cross-Canada Bookbox.
Added to the Cross-Canada Bookbox.
I could not pass this one up - I loved Word Nerd and am looking forward to reading this :)
This was such a fun book to read! It covers the difficult topic of divorce and how kids handle it, but the humor was so wonderful. And a nice small cameo by my favorite character from Word Nerd, Ambrose. This book was compulsively readable. Susin Nielsen knocks it out of the park everytime!
This was such a fun book to read! It covers the difficult topic of divorce and how kids handle it, but the humor was so wonderful. And a nice small cameo by my favorite character from Word Nerd, Ambrose. This book was compulsively readable. Susin Nielsen knocks it out of the park everytime!
I am taking this awesome book to the Calgary Bookcrossing meeting at Cravings to find a new reader.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Caught this book at the September meet up at Cravings. I loved Word Nerd, so am sure I will like this one!
Perfect book to pick up when I am struggling with one that is a tough topic. I loved the way she was portrayed, warts and all. The growing up issues, split family issues, friendship issues - all made it a great read! Thanks mathgirl40!
Bringing it to the April meet up of the Calgary BookCrossing group.
Picked up at the April meeting.
Taking to the May "Journeys" meeting, which it fits very well! Another great book by Susin Nielsen, author of Word Nerd with a lovely cameo of those main characters too in this book!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!
Picked this up at the May meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers at Cravings Market Restaurant.
Totally loved this book, just as I did "The Word Nerd". Thank you so much for sharing. Now it's time to get it moving to the next reader!
Taken to the July meet-up of Calgary BookCrossers, held at Cravings Market Restaurant.
I really enjoyed Word Nerd, am looking forward to reading another book by the same author.
Really enjoyed this book and nice to see a small connection to Word Nerd.
Taking this to the October BookCrossing meeting to be enjoyed by the next reader.
Picked up this book at the Calgary BookCrossing October meet-up. Loved Word Nerd and I bet this book will be just as good.
I love Susin Nielsen. Her books are so good. The adolescent characters feel like real people with real problems and not just cardboard cutouts. Nothing out of the ordinary happens to Violet, aside from meeting George Clooney, but the book is never boring. And I totally didn't realize that Cosmo here is the same Cosmo from Word Nerd. And Ambrose makes an appearance, too, at the end. That's so cool that there's a little connection between the two books.
Passing on this book to the next reader at the Calgary BookCrossing November meet-up.
Passing this to a book crossing member today
Loved word nerdby the same author so interested in this book with a peculiar title!
Great book! Loved the tie in to word nerd. I will have to go out of my way to find Susan Nielsen books because they are that good! Thanks mathgirl40 for sending to our group!
Oh...hope this isn't a spoiler.......so glad GC came through in the end!
Oh...hope this isn't a spoiler.......so glad GC came through in the end!
I am taking this book to our monthly bookcrossers meet up at Cravings - the second Saturday of every month- to pass on to the next reader.
Picked this up at March's meeting. Another great meeting with 9 people in attendance including two newbies. Adding this to my to be read shelf.
This was a great book, I really enjoyed it!!!!!
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Taking this to our bonus meeting this month. It will go home with another reader.
Taking this to our bonus meeting this month. It will go home with another reader.
Picked up at April's bonus meeting. Sorry for the late journal entry.
I loved word nerd!! Looking forward to this read a lot!
I loved word nerd!! Looking forward to this read a lot!
I devoured this book in an afternoon. Parts of it were so cringe worthy but it's such a sweet story, I loved it. Violet is such a strange and quirky girl. I do think that 8-ball is haunted though.
It took me the longest time to figure out who Cosmo was. Loved the crossover.
I didn't finish this book in time for the latest book shipment to the Calgary Bookcrossing group so it'll have to wait a couple months until I go back home.
It took me the longest time to figure out who Cosmo was. Loved the crossover.
I didn't finish this book in time for the latest book shipment to the Calgary Bookcrossing group so it'll have to wait a couple months until I go back home.
Picked book up at Calgary Meeting at Cravings on Sept 17
Will Release at Calgary Craves monthly meeting
Picked up this book at the Calgary bookcrossing meeting at Cravings Market on Feb 11/17
This was an easy and enjoyable read. Has a bit of teen angst, but not too much.
Will be releasing this book at the monthly Calgary book crossing meeting at Cravings Market Restaurant.
picked this up at the November meeting
Susan Nielsen certainly has a flair for quirky characters.
Glad to see a bit more of Cosmo's story.
Glad to see a bit more of Cosmo's story.
Picked this up at the Calgary June BookCrossing meetup.
Really enjoyed Word Nerd, so I'm looking forward to this one.
Really enjoyed Word Nerd, so I'm looking forward to this one.
