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| Author's note: I was sent this blog right when JJISOBS come out, so I was super-stoked to see how lovely it was! I went and checked Athena's Bookshelf, and it has great reviews of a wide variety of books. The author is very discerning, doesn't love everything and isn't afraid to tell it like it is! |
May 3, 2009
Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Single
First line: “This is a mistake. I’m not really here.”
I don’t care what you call it: the American version of Bridget
Jones’ Diary, funniest damn book of the year, prescription for
what ails America, JJiSoBS is one helluva great read. When is the
last time you chuckled on nearly every page of a full-length
novel? Yeah. I did. And I read it over a week’s time period, too,
so it wasn’t a one-sit phenomenon where I just happened to be
in a ticklish mood.
Jennifer Johnson is the quintessential smart, size 12 girl who
works as a copywriter in the marketing department of Keller’s
Department store. Yes, she has the gay best friend and the not-
so-cute but great guy friend and the mean sis who is getting
married and the bitchy boss Ashley, BUT… and this is a big but,
author Heather Mcelhatton gives us such great characterization
and punchy dialogue that we don’t care that the set-up is
familiar territory for us. Nothing is really weighty in the novel,
but we don’t mind. We don’t need a friend with cancer or
existential pondering to make JJ sing. We like that she is kitchy
and flawed and eats hot dogs on her first date with handsome
Brad Keller, the hero. We wince right alongside her as she falls
for the handsome son of the president of the company.
No, not everything is entirely plausible, especially in the last
third of the novel, but we’re having such a hoot we don’t care
about that, either. She does a nice job of tying the loose ends at
the end and leave us wanting to jump forward six months to see
what Miss Jen is up to now. (Author note: I want to write
JJISOBMarried next!) I will never look at a Cinnabon, or, ick, a
used tampon, the same way again. (Sorry)
Do yourself a favor and buy this book. If you’re single, fine, but I’
ve been married 15 years and I still loved it.
For: Laughing your hiney off. A MUST HAVE for your beach
bag this summer! - Malena Lott
Get it at Amazon.
Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Single
First line: “This is a mistake. I’m not really here.”
I don’t care what you call it: the American version of Bridget
Jones’ Diary, funniest damn book of the year, prescription for
what ails America, JJiSoBS is one helluva great read. When is the
last time you chuckled on nearly every page of a full-length
novel? Yeah. I did. And I read it over a week’s time period, too,
so it wasn’t a one-sit phenomenon where I just happened to be
in a ticklish mood.
Jennifer Johnson is the quintessential smart, size 12 girl who
works as a copywriter in the marketing department of Keller’s
Department store. Yes, she has the gay best friend and the not-
so-cute but great guy friend and the mean sis who is getting
married and the bitchy boss Ashley, BUT… and this is a big but,
author Heather Mcelhatton gives us such great characterization
and punchy dialogue that we don’t care that the set-up is
familiar territory for us. Nothing is really weighty in the novel,
but we don’t mind. We don’t need a friend with cancer or
existential pondering to make JJ sing. We like that she is kitchy
and flawed and eats hot dogs on her first date with handsome
Brad Keller, the hero. We wince right alongside her as she falls
for the handsome son of the president of the company.
No, not everything is entirely plausible, especially in the last
third of the novel, but we’re having such a hoot we don’t care
about that, either. She does a nice job of tying the loose ends at
the end and leave us wanting to jump forward six months to see
what Miss Jen is up to now. (Author note: I want to write
JJISOBMarried next!) I will never look at a Cinnabon, or, ick, a
used tampon, the same way again. (Sorry)
Do yourself a favor and buy this book. If you’re single, fine, but I’
ve been married 15 years and I still loved it.
For: Laughing your hiney off. A MUST HAVE for your beach
bag this summer! - Malena Lott
Get it at Amazon.
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by Malena Lott
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by Malena Lott
www.athenasbookshelf.com