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hopeful soul
Member since Nov-23-05
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Aug-30-10, 04:17 PM (CST) |
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14. "Fiona Walker "Snap Happy""
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I’m still reading Fiona Walker’s “Snap Happy” and cannot put this book down! Even though I’ve peeked a million times at the end, read all the bits and pieces that I’m curious about, I’m still caught by surprise at how she can twist and turn the plot around. Honestly, those who like Kristin Higgins, Helen Fielding’s “Bridget Jones”, or Sophia Kinsella’s “Can You Keep a Secret?” will love Fiona Walker. She’s a lot more edgier, but it makes her characters that much more real. I’m so glad I finally decided to give this book a chance after 15 years. I’m going to my new library system later this week to pick up her back list! Totally loving it!! (hint: highly recommend her to those who are looking for new contemp romance. Note, though in third person, we don’t get the hero’s POV, but it adds to the drama of all the heroine’s emotions. Also it’s very British by nature. All the humour and references, there’s no room for any kind of Americanization in this book, unlike Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, or even Bend It Like Beckham that all had to be re-written (or re-dubbed) for American audiences, but IMHO, it makes the story that much more authentic, especially since Snap Happy is about an American Photographer and an English Woman. Synopsis reads as: Juno is voluptuous, hedonistic, funny and terminally untidy. The last thing she needs is an uptight, teetotal flatmate. But that's what she gets when her brother sends his American photographer pal to use his London apartment. However, this recipe for disaster turns into an unlikely romance.)
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halibev
Member since Jun-27-07
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Aug-30-10, 10:57 PM (CST) |
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19. "RE: Linda Howard"
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Since I'm waiting to read the newest LH I decided to do a re-read of Drop Dead Gorgeous and To Die For. I love Blair and Wyatt. The dialogue between the 2 is so terrific. I have high hopes for Veil of Night so I can't wait until this weekend to start that. Hali Queens(1 of the 5 Borough's of New York City) |
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katenz
Member since Oct-11-08
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Sep-01-10, 02:07 AM (CST) |
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22. "Just Breathe Susan Wiggs. JAK Eclipse Bay series and S"
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Crazily reading three books. Don't usually do that. Paperback of Just Breathe, took me a minute or two to get into that but loving it now. Have read Eclipse Bay and about to listen to Dawn in EB on my ipod. And have Infamous by Suze Brockmann on my ereader Kobo. All serve different times of getting to read. My ereader comes in handy when I took my class to gym and we play in the park while we wait for the other class to finish and we bus back to school. So while the kids play I read!!
I actually bought a Kindle too, just because I could, and purchased a book to try it out. But there is only so much one can read at any one time!!! Kate
New Zealand http://mistea.edublogs.org/ |
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ShirleyTemple
Member since Dec-14-09
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Sep-02-10, 01:31 PM (CST) |
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29. "RE: WAYR Week of Aug 28 to Sep 4"
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same here. but I have two more books on my nightstand I haven't touched, Isabel Allende: "Paula" (Isabel's daughter falls in coma and they know if she'll ever awake, so Isobel tells her the story about the history of their family so that when Paula awakes she know who she is and where she came from)
and Indu Sundaresan: "The Twentieth Wife" ( The year is 1577. As a winter storm rages in the remote outpost of Qandahar, a baby girl named Mehrunnisa is born in a nomad tent. Her parents, penniless and in exile from their home in Persia, decide to give up the child. They already have three children, and are on their way to the Mughal court in India. Thirty-four years later, this child of the storm comes to Emperor Jahangir's harem as his twentieth wife, and becomes Empress Nur Jahan.Brought up around the Mughal court, Mehrunnisa sees Jahangir at his first wedding. She decides with the precocity of an eight-year-old, that one day, she will be his wife.In the years before this becomes an actuality, Mehrunnisa will be married to another man despite her inclinations. She sees her husband slaughtered by the imperial army—court gossips will have it on Jahangir's orders. There are powerful courtiers determined not to let the marriage take place. One of Jahangir's wives, Mehrunnisa's biggest rival in the imperial harem, tries to turn the Emperor against her.Through all these years, Mehrunnisa and Jahangir's love for each other endures until 1611, when she comes into his harem as his twentieth—and last—wife. At this time he gives her the title of Nur Jahan, by which she is known to posterity.)
they both sound very very interesting. Iva, Zagreb The anatomy of kisses and a teacher who tries. |
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