Journal Entry 1 by nillabreen from Stoneham, Massachusetts USA on Sunday, March 23, 2003

Mirabelle took heavy student loans to pay for a degree in Art and now works in the glove department of Neiman Marcus in Los Angeles, where she has moved from Vermont for the sole purpose of being in Los Angeles. She takes up with a wealthy older man (Ray), and they both behave childishly for a while and then break up. Mirabelle is devastated for a short while, but then she meets up with Jeremy who she had a fling with before Ray. Jeremy has embarked on an extensive program of self-improvement, and has become a much more together person. Jeremy and Mirabelle resume their interrupted relationship. There is also a character called Lisa, who wants to sleep with Ray, but she doesn't have any effect on the other characters as far as I could tell.

The other members of the book club for which I read this thought that the characters' lack of emotional response to each other was a literary comment on the shallowness of Southern California, rather than just bad writing. But I'm not sure....  

Journal Entry 2 by GirlieGoalie from Dallas, Georgia USA on Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Picked this up at a Meetup in Boston.  

Journal Entry 3 by GirlieGoalie from Dallas, Georgia USA on Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Thankfully this was a quick read. I have to agree with nillabreen on this book. It is very flat. The story could have been cute but instead it is more a stream of conscisiousness. It bounces from time to time with too much information in some and nearly none in others. There is a lot of time spent on nothing.
 

Journal Entry 4 by GirlieGoalie from Dallas, Georgia USA on Friday, May 09, 2003

The list below is the bookray mailing order:

1) CONSTANT-READER(GA)
2) LENNONCHICK78(MO)
3) SEJENT(KY)
4) PGSAHM(VIRGINIA)
5) GRACE327 (PA) <----With
6) LEAPINGLIZZARDS(FL)
7) LINNEFAULK(FL)
8) READING-DAD(MI)
9) RISUBVET(RI)
10) TRBRSN (SC)
11) SISSYRUN(CA)
12) AMBERLEE17 (CA)
13) LEANNE345(ENGLAND)
14) ELINA(FINLAND)
15) NIKEL27 (GERMANY)
16) CRESTFALLEN (PORTUGAL)
17) MOOGYTEE (CA)
18) RATMAMMY (CA)

If you wish to join, please PM JPandJo to be added. 

Journal Entry 5 by GirlieGoalie from Dallas, Georgia USA on Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Mailed to CONSTANT-READER today. 

Journal Entry 6 by Constant-Reader from Lawrenceville, Georgia USA on Thursday, May 29, 2003

Received yesterday as part of a bookray. Will read quickly and send to the next person. 

Journal Entry 7 by Constant-Reader from Lawrenceville, Georgia USA on Friday, May 30, 2003

First of all, thanks to JPandJo for making this book available to us all. I would like to say good things about it, but I found it very difficult to get interested in this book and quit about one-third of the way through. Hopefully, the next person will love it. It was just not my cuppa! 

Journal Entry 8 by Constant-Reader at postal release to BCer amberlee17 in St. Louis, Missouri USA on Friday, May 30, 2003

Release planned for Saturday, May 31, 2003 at postal release to BCer lennonchick78 in St. Louis, Missouri USA. 

Journal Entry 9 by lennonchick78 from St. Louis, Missouri USA on Tuesday, June 03, 2003

I just recieved this as part of a bookring...I have one other book(from a bookring)to read before this...and I will come back and journal again once I've read it. 

Journal Entry 10 by lennonchick78 from St. Louis, Missouri USA on Sunday, June 08, 2003

This book was so-so...At first I didn't think I would like Mirabelle...My opinon of her changed once I read that she had two cats...and that one lived under the sofa...something about that made me like her...I was extremely happy to see her old love mature...I thought the move from L.A. to San Francisco was the best thing for her...I don't know if I'd recommend this book to others necessarily...but the book wasn't too bad... 

Journal Entry 11 by lennonchick78 at Mailed to fellow BCer sejent as part of bookring in Louisville, Kentucky USA on Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Released on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 at Mailed to fellow BCer sejent as part of bookring in Louisville, Kentucky USA.

Mailed to sejent today 

Journal Entry 12 by sejent from Louisville, Kentucky USA on Monday, June 16, 2003

Received in today's mail...will start reading today and will journal again when I have finished. 

Journal Entry 13 by sejent from Louisville, Kentucky USA on Monday, July 21, 2003

An ok book...it didn't inspire me, but it didn't totally turn me off.

Sending to pgsahm in Disputanta, VA. 

Journal Entry 14 by pgsahm from Disputanta, Virginia USA on Tuesday, July 29, 2003

I'm back from vacation and found the book waiting on me. I will add it to my TBR Bookray pile and it'll be on it's way as soon as I'm done! Thanks! 

Journal Entry 15 by pgsahm from Disputanta, Virginia USA on Monday, August 18, 2003

This was a book that I really wanted to like. But as hard as I tried I just couldn't like it. I love Steve Martin's comedic style in movies, but his talent just didn't come across in the book for me. The book is terribly wordy, and I'm not one for extra nonsense words in novels. I read about 55 pages of the book and could not go any further because I was bored out of my mind!

I will be passing this on to the next in line for the bookray. Thanks for starting the ray! 

Journal Entry 16 by GRACE327 from Glenside, Pennsylvania USA on Saturday, August 30, 2003

I just got this today and I am looking forward to reading this and sending it along 

Journal Entry 17 by lostbookisland on Tuesday, March 13, 2007