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May 17th 2005
by Wheeler Publishing
(first published 2005)
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Hardcover, 215 pages
isbn
1587249707
(isbn13: 9781587249709)
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Here is a thoroughly irresistible and slyly intelligent debut novel about a discontented woman (married, with a teenage son, and fast approaching midd…more
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Read in August, 2007
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Loved, loved, loved this book. It is my style--that slice of life story that is more rooted in actual life. She writes in such an awesome flip way about these really dark and awful things that ALL of us have to face. I loved it and have tried to pass it along to everyone I have ever met.
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Read in May, 2008
I heard about this book when it came out a couple of years ago, but never got around to picking it up. I loved it. Laughed my head off for the first 160-ish pages and then sobbed. It’s wonderful. About a woman who is dissatisfied with her husband and still longing for her college love and ends up sleeping with him and getting pregnant. Of course, the guy is a jerk – her husband isn’t that fantastic. Father could be either one.
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Read in May, 2006
Julia goes to a wedding and has a tryst with her college boyfriend. She becomes pregnant and doesn’t know if it was from the “never able to commit” old boyfriend or her distant husband. The author writes the thoughts that really do come out of people’s heads.
It has been fun lately to read books that have no educational or historic value, just pure fun. If I would have tried to underline the clever banter in this book, the whole thing would have been marked up. If was fast and fun. ...more
It has been fun lately to read books that have no educational or historic value, just pure fun. If I would have tried to underline the clever banter in this book, the whole thing would have been marked up. If was fast and fun. ...more
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I don't really do chick lit, but I loved this. Mostly I loved laying in bed all day and reading the whole thing cover to cover. That is what chick lit is for and it deserves to exist for that reason alone.
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Read in November, 2007
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hmmm...don't really know how explain this one! This was reviewed as "laugh out loud funny" - I spent the whole book waiting for a laugh (suppressed or otherwise!) While I didn't find it a painful read, I certainly didn't find it enjoyable. I would recommend this book to those women who have cheated on their husbands, find themselves pregnant and are uncertain as to which man may be responsible for paternity. Or perhaps other readers of questionable moral values may find this a "...more
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Read in August, 2007
I really enjoyed this book, even though it was pretty much cookie-cutter chick lit.
We are all Fine Here follows a woman who becomes pregnant from a one-night encounter with an ex boyfriend. The problem here is that she's already married and has a teenage son. Theren lies the problem.
The only issue I really had was that it was too short. I felt like, even though the story ended at a good point in the woman's life, the author really could have taken it another hundred pages or so.
We are all Fine Here follows a woman who becomes pregnant from a one-night encounter with an ex boyfriend. The problem here is that she's already married and has a teenage son. Theren lies the problem.
The only issue I really had was that it was too short. I felt like, even though the story ended at a good point in the woman's life, the author really could have taken it another hundred pages or so.
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Read in February, 2009
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Mediocre chick lit--witty in many ways and a very fast read.
To like the book you have to find humor (or maybe identify with) a suburban mother who is pregnant, possibly by an old boyfriend she has never gotten over, while her husband is possibly having an affair at the office, while her teenage son is stealing joints out of her purse, which doesn't seem to upset her much, nor does it upset her to find the teenage son's girlfriend emerging naked from his bedroom.
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To like the book you have to find humor (or maybe identify with) a suburban mother who is pregnant, possibly by an old boyfriend she has never gotten over, while her husband is possibly having an affair at the office, while her teenage son is stealing joints out of her purse, which doesn't seem to upset her much, nor does it upset her to find the teenage son's girlfriend emerging naked from his bedroom.
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Read in May, 2009
I did not enjoy this book as much as I hoped I would. I expected some funny dialog, some interesting insight into this woman's life and family and what I found was a whiny "adult" who couldn't give up her old boyfriend, couldn't give up her life when she was with her old boyfriend and in general a book that made me feel as though I was listening to a teenage girl talk about her life. I must admit the book did have some redeeming qualities at the end of the book when she and her family ...more
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Read in November, 2007
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This book is one of the best I have read in a long time. Funny, sarcastic, and yet it hits on many of life's sad ironic truths.
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Read in November, 2007
recommends it for:
women
Quick read...hilarious!
Totally could relate. Oh the days of Scuba Steve.
Totally could relate. Oh the days of Scuba Steve.
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Read in May, 2009
This book made me cringe a litle; I don't agree with some of her politics, but can completely sympathize with a few of her circumstances. Fickle friends, fickle and strange family encounters, her struggling relationship, a husband with a crush on a co-worker. I found myself laughing outloud at the candor in which she describes life's circumstances, and at the wit she emplores while stating the obvious. A good pick if you're looking for a light read and your moral compass sways to the left.
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Read in March, 2009
I liked the authors writing style and the frank and straight-forward communication style she gave the main character. But at times the melodrama that other reviews mentioned did seem a bit adolescent..perhaps if the same character was in a book or story with a different story arc I would have given 4 or more stars..
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Read in January, 2003
Ok, I read this book several years ago and really liked it.
I've been waiting for her next book. Is there one?
I've been waiting for her next book. Is there one?
Read in June, 2009
I really liked this book. It was funny in that sarcastic kind of "isn't it funny how life works out" way.
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Read in January, 2007
Thoroughly forgettable. In fact, I forgot I had read it except that it's on my bookclub list.
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Funny--like David Sedaris funny. Hard to say it was light, but it was summer reading at it's best.
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God awful. It's like listening to a seventh grader talking about the boy they like (Does he like me back? He looked at me in 3rd period so that could mean that he likes me but when I passed him in the hall I moved to brush past him and he moved so we didn't actually touch and he wasn't looking at me and what do you think that means? etc.) The main character has confused cynicism with humor. She has nothing to offer those around her but can't understand why they aren't all falling over to wors...more
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Read in August, 2008
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I am having a very difficult time getting past the main character. The book is written in the first person and I find that person very unlikable.
She lacks character. From her marital infidelity to her absolute lack of work ethic she irritates me.
I did not enjoy listening to the thoughts and excuses of this miserable self-absorbed character.
The book deserves two stars because it is well written. However it is not at all funny as the book jacket quotes promis...more
She lacks character. From her marital infidelity to her absolute lack of work ethic she irritates me.
I did not enjoy listening to the thoughts and excuses of this miserable self-absorbed character.
The book deserves two stars because it is well written. However it is not at all funny as the book jacket quotes promis...more
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Read in August, 2009
Very wry and funny. Really enjoying this as a light read.
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