Journal Entry 1 by MaiSpritt from Roanoke, Virginia USA on Monday, January 24, 2005

Erhmn.. just spent a weekend in London and then a weekend in Dublin - and the books are just so cheap that I am now up 32 books or so compared to before I left *G* Frightening!

However, have started reading this one, Always the Bridesmaid, as the second of them all (the first being Jill Mansell: Falling for you), and must say that I really enjoy it so far. Have been observed laughing out loud in the bus already ;o) 

Journal Entry 2 by MaiSpritt from Roanoke, Virginia USA on Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Have now finished this rather entertaining but sometimes too Bridget read-a-like book by Sarah Webb. Truely enjoyed the hassles of Amy - and had to laugh and think of myself behaving quite similarly more than once ;o)

From amazon.com:
It's bad enough when your love life is going nowhere fast -- it's worse when everyone else's is soaring!

That's the personal tragedy that appears to have befallen Amy O'Sullivan, asshe careens toward the "Big Three-O" with what she laughingly refers to as a "career" at a dead end. Amy's little sister has come home with her "Golden Delicious" Australian fiancé in tow. Amy's girlfriend Beth is also planning on tying the knot with her own Mr. Right in the near future. And another "friend" has just slept with the man Amy figured she herself might end up marrying! So what's a perennial bridesmaid to do . . . after she's spent more than enough time and energy lying in bed, wallowing in self-pity?Why, move on, of course! She's needed (sort of) at the bookstore where, as"Story Princess," she's expected to enliven young lives, even as her own sinks deeper in the mire.

Then again, perhaps there are actual Prince Charmings out there in the real world. And a pitiful princess never knows what -- or who -- is going to come walking in the door holding the hand of an eager little girl . . .