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Yesitsme
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08-24-2004
| Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 7:45 am
Just finished the Botox Diaries. Two women, best friends, early forties, one married, one divorced. The married one is a tv producer who begins an affair with her host. The divorced one is put in the middle of it all, covering for her friend yet feeling great guilt because the husband is also her friend. Yet the divorced one also has a few romance possibilities of her own...her French ex-husband who comes back into her life, the hunky model that she wins a date with because her daughter enters a contest in Cosmo Girl, and even her best friend's husband after he finds out about the affair. I enjoyed it. Lightweight, but still true-to-life and fun.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 7:54 am
I want to read that one! I am back to finishing up the Nicholas Sparks' book True Believer. I like it. I had to stop midbook because I had to read the Harry Potter book.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 3:02 pm
Finished the Sparks book and got One For the Money by Janet Evanovich today so I am starting that. Thank you, Yes!
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 1:07 pm
Just finished Something Blue today. I thought it was great! I had reservations due to her character in Something borrowed, but I really liked it. Griffin is good at changing your feelings towards her character, although the plots were pretty parallel in both books. I would still recommend it!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 1:12 pm
Loved One For The Money! I intend to read them all. I just started Sandwiched by Jennifer Archer. It's a new series from Harlequin. Chick lit for women around 40. I'm loving it so far.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 9:42 am
I am just starting The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella and I am so excited! I love her writing so much. I really enjoyed The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble. I liked how everything came to a conclusion at the end. Very satisfying conclusions, at that.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 9:58 am
I didn't know the new Sophie Kinsella book was out! Thanks, Mamie, I know that I definitely want to read that one. I loved her other books.
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 7:21 pm
Oooh! I didn't know that either. My library has it and I'm only #3 on the wait list. I've enjoyed the Jaine Austen mysteries. If you wanted to combine chick lit with a Hollywood/Beverly Hills whodunit, these are a good choice. I loved the heroine, she's a ghostwriter with a cat named Prozac, has a neighbor that hears everything though the walls, and no will power on diets.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 10:38 pm
The Undomestic Goddess is a must-read! I really think you all will love it. I am starting Bachelor Boys and I can't for the life of me think of the author's name at this moment but I have read lots of good reviews on it.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 12:27 pm
Read Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin. I can see why some had problems with it due to affair, but I still enjoyed it. I thought it was an interesting point of view piece....it showed the thought process a person sometimes goes through in that situation (such as seeing the faults of the best friend clearer as if to justify her behavior.) I liked all of the characters, in spite of their flaws. They were very realistic, I thought. My library doesn't have Something Blue, darn it. Read the Amazon description and was thrilled that it is from Darcy's point of view. Funnily enough, I wanted to know her side of the story so it is like the author read my mind! I just may have to break down and buy it.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 8:32 am
I'm taking most of next week off (need to go into the office Monday morning for a couple of meetings), so I bought about 8 books on Friday to read during a week of doing nothing. Four of them were three Shopoholic books and The Undomestic Goddess. I finished the three Shopoholic books Friday night and Saturday, and I'm now well into The Undomestic Goddess. Looks like I need to make a B&N stop on my way home from work Monday...
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 1:59 pm
I loved Pink Slip Party by Cara Lockwood. Terrific chick lit, I kept laughing out loud. Also, I read the second in the series of the Bottom Dollar Girls. The first one was Bet Your Bottom Dollar and this one was A Dollar Short. Great, funny, Southern stuff. I also read Gods in Alabama. Although not Chick Lit, it was a very good read. Just when I thought I'd figured out what had happened, more things would change.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, August 09, 2005 - 7:56 am
I finished Bachelor Boys which was a very sweet book. I really enjoyed it. I am going to begin reading Over Her Dead Body by Kate White. I have read her other 3 Bailey Weggins books and it's a fun mystery. I ordered the Bottom Dollar books so I am looking forward to those!
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 10:04 am
I am at the beach so I am reading like crazy! Loved "The Town That Came a'Courtin" by Ronda Rich. Very funny romantic story. Read Roccoco by Adriana Trigiani - soso. If you are really into interior decorating then it may interest you. But I found myself skimming the paragraphs because the excessive detail she went about fabrics, wallpapers, etc. in the storyline.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 9:12 pm
Finished Over Her Dead Body. Very fun mystery read. I didn't suspect the actual killer at all. I am going to read Lakeside Cottage by Susan Wiggs next.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, August 15, 2005 - 7:44 am
You guys are reading too fast....I'll never get all of these recommended ones read! But I will die trying.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, August 19, 2005 - 6:45 am
Just finished Fat Chance by Deborah Blumenthal. An anti-diet/fat acceptance columnist gets hired as a consultant to a hunky actor preparing for a movie and gets herself into shape in her preparation. Typical chick lit in a lot of ways, but it is written by a nutritionist and actually contains a lot of kinda interesting nutrition stuff that I figure is true (I am a bit of a geek about nutrition....I read cookbooks like novels.) I enjoyed it.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 12:31 pm
Just finished Janet Evanovich's latest Eleven on Top. I enjoyed it. I get pessimistic when you get so many books in a series, but she manages to remain true to the characters and reveal something interesting about each of them. I love Ranger. I like Morelli, but Ranger is the one that I want to find out more about. Oh, that bad boy mystery! Always attracts me, though in real life I do know enough to stay away from those relationships.
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Bearware
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 3:24 pm
Ranger has my entire faculty of women having hot flashes! We have the best arguments over who should play him in the movies. He's our fave!
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Friday, August 26, 2005 - 4:06 pm
Ranger scares me. I'd like to watch him from afar...but not too far. Of course, I'd never get away with it, because Ranger has eyes everywhere. I have a couple suggestions for who could play the part: Goran Visnjic, or Kaysar. I'm glad to hear Eleven on Top is good, too.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 6:07 am
Ranger makes my thighs quiver. Whoooooo! <fans self> Kaysar would make a GREAT Ranger, could call, Mak!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 8:17 am
I can never decide who should play him in a movie, either. The best I can come up with is someone with a Benjamin Bratt basic look, but a bit taller, slightly more Cuban, more muscular (with a catlike sleekness) and with great, but very subtle, facial expression. I think it would be difficult to cast...but probably the most important casting of the movie, so not to insult my fantasy Ranger!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 10:01 am
I finished Mad Girls In Love and it was really a good book. It went through the years that Nixon was president up until Clinton. You know this because one of the main characters is in a mental hospital and she writes to the first ladies. All except Hilary, she writes to Tipper instead! The characters really come alive and are very Southern. Loved it. I am starting to read American Girls About Town. Short stories by a lot of chick lit writers.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 5:42 pm
I just finished reading "Savannah Blues", "Itty Bitty Lies", and "Hissy Fit" by Mary Kay Andrews based on Mamie's recommendation and Mamie you never fail me!! Great books and good laugh out loud moments. I am going to start "Crazy Ladies" by Michael Lee West.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 5:59 pm
Crazy Ladies was the first book before Mad Girls In Love, Beachcomber. Of course, I read the second one first!
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