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Leap

Sunday, November 26, 2000 - 10:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Want to talk about the book Watermelon? Here is the thread. Discuss away.

Nikkid

Sunday, November 26, 2000 - 11:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Do you like it? It is my favorite book. :)

Soeur

Sunday, November 26, 2000 - 02:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

I am still on the hunt for it but expect to get lucky this week...

Leap

Sunday, November 26, 2000 - 03:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

I just started it. So far, it is funny. I will post more in a few days.

Soeur

Monday, November 27, 2000 - 04:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Leap! I was able to get the book and am going to start reading it tonight....looking forward to this...

Leap

Monday, November 27, 2000 - 07:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Great, I am not that far into it, but it is a riot.

Soeur

Tuesday, November 28, 2000 - 02:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

It's a very funny book. The bit where James visited Claire at the hospital after she gave birth to their baby and told her he was having an affair with the downstairs neighbor and was leaving her...

"Although James seemed to have forgotton one big fact. There is no divorce in Ireland. James and I were married in Ireland. Our marriage was blessed by the Fathers of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour. Althought a fat lot of good it had obvously done us. So long, Succour."

Soeur

Tuesday, November 28, 2000 - 03:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Keyes combines the tragic with the comic so well. It is achingly funny at times. Loving this book.

Nikkid

Tuesday, November 28, 2000 - 05:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

:) Yay!

Leap

Tuesday, November 28, 2000 - 10:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

I read a quote last night that just cracked me up. I will have to go back and look for it and post it here tomorrow. Until then. . .

Soeur

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 03:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP

our heroine - (temporarily) overweight, depressed and unwashed...

"I was most certainly smelly. There was as much chance of me climbing Mount Everest as there was of me washing my hair.

I did have the occasional bath, but only because my mother organised the whole thing."

Fruitbat

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 05:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP

I just went to order the book...Is the author Marian Keyes? Just making sure I got the right one. Thanks.

Adven39

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 05:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Hmmm. I need to hear more before I get this book. Does it have any car crashes, mindless violence or sex scenes thrown in for no apparent reason?

Whatwillidonow

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 06:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP

I need this book...I'm calling Barnes & Noble as soon as it opens and running there (ok, driving)...But, I'm getting it today :)

Whatwillidonow

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 06:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Fruitbat,

Yes.

It was written by Marian Keyes :)

Fruitbat

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 06:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Hey Adven....you, and everyone else for that matter, are supposed to read Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan. My husband loved this, as well....it is for all hormones.

Just ordered Watermellon from amazon.

Soeur

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 07:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP

fruit & willow...you won't be sorreee...it is a gas!

Whatwillidonow

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 08:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Now I have 2 books to go & get.

Thanks :)

Adven39

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 08:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP

I've got Blue Heaven on order, HRH.

Leap

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 10:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP

There are so many good quotes in this book, I just chuckle and chuckle while I read. Soeur, you are picking out some great ones.

I am at a point where the book is starting to get a bit happier. However, I just can't believe what an ass her husband is. I think she is taking her rejection well, considering the circumstances. In the same situation, I might be a bit more drastic.

Fruitbat

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 11:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Good boy, Adven.

After you all have finnished Watermellon (me too)I'm going to push real hard for Blue Heaven....be forwarned.

Soeur

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 02:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

OK Fruit, I'm game for Blue Heaven. Meanwhile...here is another quote from Watermelon (about Adam's effect on women <swooon>):

"Does he always make every woman he comes into contact with blush, I wondered.
Or was it just our family.
Somehow I suspected not.

..."Hi Anna." He smiled at her. "Nice to see you again."

"Er yes," she muttered, blushing even more and knocking over a cup. The insides of her eyelids were probably bright red at this stage.

I sympathised. I probably didn't have one intact blood vessel left in my face after my Adam-induced blush earlier. Every capillary in my cheeks had burst like bubbles coming to the surface of a glass of chapmagne."

Her writing is so fresh and direct. This is a truly delightful book. I did not want my lunchhour to end today. Leap, should we wait before posting more until the other readers get their copies? This is a book I would not mind reading twice.

Fruitbat

Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 03:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Blue Heaven is the only book that I actually put down to laugh out loud. My husband did too and I was able to laugh again with him when he read it. It is rare to LOL while reading a book I have found. I can find somethings very funny, hysterical, actually, without uttering a sound.

Leap

Thursday, November 30, 2000 - 09:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Soeur, I don't want to ruin this for anyone. I am okay with waiting. I am also okay with reading Blue Heaven next.

Willi

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 07:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Where is everybody?

HRH?

Leap?

Soeur?

Adven?

I just started reading Watermelon and what a hoot!!!! A total LOL book! My poor husband was trying to sleep while I read (and laughed). I did find myself glancing in his direction a few times thinking, "He does seem just a tad bit too good to be true...HHHHHHHhhmmmmmmmmmm!"

A terrific read to which I'm getting back to as soon as I wrap some gifts. Mother Nature dumped snow on us so the kids are home from school...There goes my four hour reading marathon.

There's always tomorrow :)

Have the rest of you finished/started Watermelon? I can't wait until we can list our favorite quotes...I have a few already.

Soeur

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 07:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Willi, I've read it and it sits by my computer waiting to be quoted from...(as soon as the coast is clear and everyone has read it)...Enjoy, It keeps getting better.

Willi

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 07:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP

Thanks Soeur!

I can't wait to read more...It's a treat opening that book :)

I ordered "Putting On The Ritz" yesterday.

Fruitbat

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 08:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP

I just started it....I'll let you know when I am done. :)

Ocean_Islands

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 06:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

What is watermelon. let me know.

Nikkid

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 06:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

watermelon is a nick name for the heroines stomach. :)

Leap

Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 11:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

I am here and will post more about the book once others have finished reading it. However, I am swamped with preparing for a big family Xmas party this weekend. Will have more time next week and after Xmas.

Soeur

Wednesday, December 27, 2000 - 07:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP

More about the delicious Adam:
Then Anna arrived home...
"Oh hi Adam," she said breathily, obviously delighted, flushing with pleasure.
Does he always make every woman he comes into contact with blush, I wondered.
Or was it just our family.
Somehow I suspected not.
What hope could there be for a man so young who had such an intense effect on women? He could only grow up to be a complete and total bstard.
Expecting women to weep, faint, scream and fall in love with him as easily as breathing.
He was far too handsome for his own good.
A disfigurement or two wouldn't have gone amiss at all.
Spare the spots and spoil the man.

Missy2

Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 08:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey I loved this book! Actually I have enjoyed all of Keyes' books. Except for Lucy Sullivan (for some reason that depressed me?)