chick lit

Released on Thursday, December 23, 2004 at about 1:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at On the Road... in LaughAtlantis's Chick Lit Bookbox, Bookbox Controlled Releases.

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put in the LaughAtlantis Chick Lit Bookbox - will mail via media mail on Thursday, 12/23/04

Pulled this from the bookbox. Looks like a good one!

I didn't care much for this book. I think partly it was because I didn't like the narrator, and partly because I couldn't stand a lot of the writing. Nevertheless, I finished it.

The narrator, Sidney, goes between being a sassy, sexy, confident woman to being a neurotic, insecure whiner, which resulted in doing nothing more than making her very irritating to me. I didn't care what happened to her and didn't care about her romance with a married man her father's age. It's hard to read a book when you don't care what happens to the characters.

But even more annoying than Sidney were the writing styles in the book. Sidney is a poet - and her poems were horrible. After the first two, I skipped the rest. The narration was abrasive at times, too. I don't know why the author of this book did this, but she had the characters speak without using contractions. For example, the characters would talk to each other like this:
"I am sure that I did not call you."
"We are not communicating very well."
"I know that it is a problem when we do not speak to each other for days at a time."
"It is a definite concern ."

Not only does this make the conversation stilted, but both of the characters speak in the same manner; they don't have their own voices! It was VERY irritating to me. I kept re-wording their conversations in my head. Doesn't the author realize that people don't speak in complete sentences and rarely use grammatically correct words???

Anyway, not one of my favorite chick-lits, but they can't all be, can they? :)

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Adding to LGinder's Chick Lit Bookbox

My book box made it home with this one inside, fun! I'm thinking I've read this one ... but will have to read a few pages to find out!

Did a book search on my shelf and I have read this one and passed it along. Will find it a new home now.

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Releasing to xallroyx, enjoy!

received from lginder!! thanks!!!

Book was OK. I haven't read much chick lit lately.