cook_memorial_public_library's review against another edition
4.0
Recommended by Haley.
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juliaem's review against another edition
2.0
A beach read, for sure. I'm normally a big fan of chick lit, but [spoiler alert...although it wouldn't totally ruin a reading] the protagonist's anorexia is handled a little sloppily for my taste. Maxted has the symptoms of anorexia down to a tee, which is exactly my problem. I think the fewer "how to" manuals we give young women about disordered eating (someone with a problem could gloss over Natalie's protein-deficiency-induced hair loss and start imitating her workout regimen), the better. I'd be curious to see if other books by her were better, because that was my only (albeit major) problem.
sharonfalduto's review against another edition
Kind of...chick lit...I guess. From England, written 2001 (so it doesn't have the post-911 ennui that everything else seems to). Somewhat unreliable narrator; it's not until 100 pages in that we discover, from other characters, that she may be anorexic. I'm not sure I felt this book totally resolved, which I guess is okay, things don't always resolve in real life, either, but...I didn't get out of it what I was looking for, whatever that was.
bethanharcourt's review against another edition
2.0
I find it very hard to enjoy a book when I dislike the main character. I understand the journey of this book is her self development, but that didn't start until far too late for me. There's a thin line between it being funny because she's so classically English and repressed and look at all the mistakes she makes, and it just being pathetic and frustrating.
lauren_salsa's review against another edition
3.0
A good amount of humor and nice bursts of drama. A twenty-something girl battles with her best friend's marriage and her own budding anorexia. I liked that Maxted created a first person narration that still managed to hide some surprises about her character. However, sometimes I got lost in the writing, as the narrator had what were almost stream-of-consciousness moments and some of the British slang made for some, "Wait, what are they talking about?" moments.
angelinee's review against another edition
2.0
I thought this book would be right up my alley and hoped it would give me funny insight into what my girlfriends went through when I was the first of our group of best friends to get married. What i got was another chick lit book where the main character is an unemployed publicist/journalist and an emotional mess and yet men fight over her like idiots (but she sleeps with all of them) and ends up with her finding the right job/career and right man, who was there all along (with her parents' mid-life crisis/marriage killer thrown into the mix as well). Swap the names, make the main character a little rounder, and flip flop the parental crisis and you've got Bridget Jone all over again. I rushed through this book just to get it over with.
The only things that kept is from being a one star was that the writing itself wasn't bad, I think the topic of anorexia was treated with appropriate gravity, and I think the relationship between Natalie and her mother was interesting and not fluffy.
The only things that kept is from being a one star was that the writing itself wasn't bad, I think the topic of anorexia was treated with appropriate gravity, and I think the relationship between Natalie and her mother was interesting and not fluffy.
bookzoo's review against another edition
3.0
I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
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