Journal Entry 1 by darkpunkangel from Barrie, Ontario Canada on Monday, January 05, 2009

From Publishers Weekly

The team behind The Nanny Diaries and Citizen Girl returns with another breezy chick lit portrayal of a woman wronged and, eventually, empowered. When Kate Hollis's childhood chum Laura calls from their Vermont hometown and announces the arrival of Jake Sharpe, a mega rock star and Kate's high school sweetheart, Kate jumps on a plane from Charleston, S.C. (where she's a sustainable development consultant) and makes for idyllic Croton Falls. Through it's been 13 years, Kate still has a primal need to confront not only the boy who abandoned her before the senior prom, but the musical pirate who used her personal life as fodder for his most celebrated songs and cheated his high school bandmates out of deserved recognition and royalties. Chapters switch back and forth between the present and the pivotal middle and high school years where Kate (then Katie) and Jake did the first-love thing: readers get to see Jake's growing he's-just-not-that-into-you-ness and how (surprise!) their Zima-fueled love (it was the '90s) was idealized. While one spends much of the book wanting to shout at Kate to give it up, go back to Charleston and get on with it, McLaughlin and Kraus do get the nagging need for closure in even the shallowest relationships comically right.

Placed in the Everybook VBB on Bookobsessed and taken out by Ramson 

Journal Entry 2 by darkpunkangel at Every Book VBB, Virtual Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (6/17/2009 UTC) at Every Book VBB, Virtual Bookbox -- Controlled Releases

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Sent today, hope you enjoy the book! 

Journal Entry 3 by ramson from New Orleans, Louisiana USA on Tuesday, July 07, 2009

This arrived a few weeks ago - I was just very bad about journaling it. Thanks for sharing, DPA! 

Journal Entry 4 by ramson at A Controlled Release, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (3/2/2010 UTC) at A Controlled Release, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases

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Mailed off to a BC friend in the UK. 

Journal Entry 5 by purple-pixie from Nuneaton, Warwickshire United Kingdom on Thursday, March 11, 2010

Arrived safely, thank you, ramson. 

Journal Entry 6 by purple-pixie from Nuneaton, Warwickshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, May 11, 2010

I enjoyed this book, I foun dit to be a bonus that I couldn't tell that it had two authors. A cautionary tale for those still holding on to the past! 

Journal Entry 7 by purple-pixie at Wilkinsons in Nuneaton, Warwickshire United Kingdom on Monday, October 18, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (10/18/2010 UTC) at Wilkinsons in Nuneaton, Warwickshire United Kingdom

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Left on the charity book stall inside Wilkinsons, Nuneaton. The stall is in aid of The Anthony Nolan Trust, a very worthwhile charity and all books are priced at 50p each - please supprt this if you are in the area.