I’m in the middle of sorting out some of my bookcases and have found some books that I haven’t registered so I’m registering them now. This one is now on my TBR pile and I hope to read it very soon.

Synopsis from Amazon


Dinner for Two, the fourth novel from Mike Gayle, is, like its predecessors, a "blokes can be sensitive too" gander at the complicated lives of late twenty/thirtysomething Londoners. Dave Harding is a "serious music" journalist for Louder magazine, a publication "staffed by pro-faced boys who think that the more obscure the band is the cooler they are". When Louder folds Dave finds himself penning articles for Femme, a women's glossy edited by his beloved wife, Izzy, and then lands a job as the agony uncle of Teen Scene, a boy-band saturated magazine for adolescent girls. (Gayle was himself a jobbing journalist and agony uncle and in the interest of realism (or economy) re-purposes some of his own pieces for Cosmo etc. here.)

"Love Doctor" Dave finds, to his immense surprise, he rather enjoys his new career, soon he's dispensing romantic advice to correspondents, friends and colleagues with gay abandon. Since Izzy's recent miscarriage however, Dave has been obsessed with one thing: babies. At 31, he wants, more than anything else, to become a father, that is until he receives an astonishing letter from Nicola, a 13-year-old Teen Scene reader. Nicola claims that Dave is her Dad. After a few clandestine meetings in McDonalds and Burger Kings he's convinced but should he tell Izzy anything? True to his gender he dithers with predictably catastrophic, well, to be completely honest, mildly (and only briefly) unfortunate results.

I've just finished reading this book and thought I'd journal it straight away. I read the bulk of this book in one sitting today, once I got into it I didn't want to put it down. I'm not well at the moment and it was a perfect book for relaxing with. It's always nice to get a happy ending too.

I'm setting this book as AVL and plan to release it very soon.

RELEASE NOTES:

I'll be releasing this book today in either Marks and Spencer's, Argos or on Parliament Street somewhere...

I was browsing in the Scope charity shop in Colliergate and came accross this. I wonder how long it has been there? Could not resist buying it (£1.50), as it is the first book I have found in the wild. Will probably do a themed release when hinself and myself go out to eat, or possibly at M&S when they have a dine in for two for £10.00 offer on. Reserving this as there are obviously possibilities.....

I have now read this. Like Sunflowergirl I just about got through it in one sitting. Very light reading, but quite fun. Chick lit I suppose but written by a bloke so a different take on it. Still fancying a themed release on this so I'm leaving as reserved, rather than taking it to Meetup.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing this at the 'Food' themed Meetup. Hope it finds a new reader.

not picked up at the meet...

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

left on the shelf (literally!)...