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441st out of 779 books
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582 voters
The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club
28-year-old Cassie Moore has always played it safe, living
life according to a meticulously organized Master
Plan. But when she loses her Perfect Job and finds her
fiancé in bed with his ex on the same day, it's clear that
The Plan has failed her. She awakens the next day from
a drunken stupor to discover that she's booked herself
on a six-month trip to Buenos Aires. She speaks...more
life according to a meticulously organized Master
Plan. But when she loses her Perfect Job and finds her
fiancé in bed with his ex on the same day, it's clear that
The Plan has failed her. She awakens the next day from
a drunken stupor to discover that she's booked herself
on a six-month trip to Buenos Aires. She speaks...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
May 29th 2007
by 5 Spot
(first published May 26th 2003)
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After her whole world seemingly crashes down around her, Cassie does the logical thing and gets blistering drunk! When she comes to again, she realizes that, in her drunken stupor, she has made travel arrangements for a six month trip to Buenos Airies. Being somewhat OCD in nature, Cassie does nothing without consideration, including mapping out her entire life plan. Realizing that her plan has failed her, Cassie embarks on what turns out to be a life-changing extended vacation, without a single...more
I don't know why I had such a hard time with this book. It's chick-lit! It takes place in an international setting (albit, one I haven't been to for a change)! I think the thing I had a hard time with in this book is that that author spent way to much time with internal dialogue and description rather then actual dialogue. This book was a little bit like my last favorite chick-lit book I read a few months ago from Harmel and actual a mix of another book of hers as well. The protag looses her job...more
I bought this because I love the spanish culture and my husband happens to be hispanic as well. I knew the love interest in this book would be oozing with that latin sex appeal and I was hoping to learn more about Argentina as it sounds like a wonderfully exotic place I would love to visit! I too love how cassie just ups and decides after getting dumped by her fiancee that she is just going to hop on a plane and spend months recuperating in a foreign country (even if she was drunk when she booke...more
I enjoyed this book because it helps the reader realize that although certain life events may make you feel like your life is over there is usually a happy ending ahead that you have yet to discover. The best part is that it gives this message in the sweetest way! I loved the descriptions of Buenos Aires and I find myself longing to visit... (I wonder if the exchange rate is really that strongly in the benefit of the US Dollar).. and find my own adventures. The main character felt like someone I...more
What an enjoyable piece of light-hearted, happy ever after romance! I cannot even rank it on the fluff-o-meter, it was truly cute.
I can live without Ms. Morrison's travel tips, but the story is lovely and the underlying message important for everyone. The past influences you, your family impacts all your relationships and you need to be aware of these things in order to transcend the issues that cause angst.
Cassie's issue of planning and expectations aside, being prepared to explore a path that...more
I can live without Ms. Morrison's travel tips, but the story is lovely and the underlying message important for everyone. The past influences you, your family impacts all your relationships and you need to be aware of these things in order to transcend the issues that cause angst.
Cassie's issue of planning and expectations aside, being prepared to explore a path that...more
This wasn't a great book. The main character was really self absorbed. At the beginning of the book, she lost her job and her fiance in the same week, and you as a reader actually feel sorry for her and hope she makes some decisions to turn her life around. She sells her engagement ring and decides to go to Buenbos Aires for several months. Unfortunately, the decision she makes is to treat people in Buenos Aires the way she was treated in America. She is so popular, and attracts so many good loo...more
I haven't read a book just for the fun of it in what seems like ages. One day, a few weeks ago, Dave and I were heading out to the pool and I figured I should take something to read so as not to get bored. I grabbed this one from my nightstand, and I'm so glad I did. It was fun, funny, cute, and just the brain candy I was looking for. I would totally recommend it! So...who wants to read it next? A couple of the pages are kind of wrinkly from pool water. I was just too impatient to wait for my ha...more
Sliding Doors meets Pride and Prejudice meet Bridget Jones meets Eat Pray Love...in the most unoriginal way possible. Picked the book up because I've got a jonesin' to travel soon and was in Buenos Aires a year ago. It definitely made me long to visit the city again, and a story about someone my age living abroad is always fun. And the romance in the book, as much as I wanted to resist, did end up being a bit swoon-worthy. But all in all I'd really only recommend this to someone traveling to Arg...more
I originally bought this book for my sister, who went through a huge break-up, just like the character in this book. Except, she found out her boyfriend was cheating on her through facebook. I was hoping this book would give her something to occupy her mind while cheering her up. Little over a year, I've finally had the chance to read the book. To my surprise i did a wonderful job picking this book out for her. The characters are witty, and it's a complete book about break-ups. After i was finis...more
This book is perfect for anyone who needs their literature to "lighten up" a bit.
For the past year or so, I've been reading books varying in depth, but all of them seemed to depress me, or feel like I was reading a textbook.
This book made me feel like I was sitting under an umbrella on the beach with my toes in the sand. I'm not usually one for chick-lit, not only because it is shallow and has absolutely no depth, but also because it usually follows the same route of:
-Young womans life falls ap...more
For the past year or so, I've been reading books varying in depth, but all of them seemed to depress me, or feel like I was reading a textbook.
This book made me feel like I was sitting under an umbrella on the beach with my toes in the sand. I'm not usually one for chick-lit, not only because it is shallow and has absolutely no depth, but also because it usually follows the same route of:
-Young womans life falls ap...more
an entertaining, if not predictable, "lost everything but found myself" kinda story. except this one is set to a latin backdrop. it does make one long to drop everything and move to an exotic land to meet new and way hotter people. although in real life im sure i would end up in some dank alley in paris with only mangy and rabid cats for friends. i suppose thats why books are written. so we can vicariously experience that which we are too afraid to do ourselves.
Entertaining "chick-lit" with an international flair. 20 something Cassie lived by a "plan" that she meticulously wrote out and checked off but, all in one day she loses her job, walks in on her finance in bed with his x-girlfriend,and therefore loses her place to live. In her immature state she doesn't see any of this coming and promptly gets drunk with her good girlfriends and books herself a trip to Buenos Aires to heal herself. Cassie is still immature as she tries to live in a foreign count...more
Absolutely loved this book and could not put it down. The story of a woman who lives her life planned out and then has it completely turned upside down is incredibly entertaining and easy to relate to for women everywhere. It shows how life is unpredictable and you can't, and shouldn't, live it according to what you think is best for you. Loss of love, life, and security, mixed with finding who you really are, this is definitely a must read.
(Fiction, ChickLit 2007) Getting drunk after losing her job and breaking her engagement ends with Cassie alone in buenos Aires for six months to change her life. I really like the way she slowly begins to get herself out of her funk and start to live. The people around her are entertaining and enjoyable. Made me want to grab a ticket and head for South America! (But I'd rather take my husband along).
I needed something light and easy between more substantial reads and this did the trick. It's quite humorous, although the plot leaves much to be desired. The main character is a bit silly and completely oblivious at times. She kept talking herself into stuff and I just wanted to scream at her and slap her straight! But it's a fun, mindless, quick, easy read. Overall, pretty enjoyable.
Unless you have had your heart broken, lived in Seattle, visited Buenos Aires or wished for a sabbatical in a faraway land I do not recommend reading this book. If you have, you might enjoy this fluffy read. It is extremely predictable, but told in a cute, self-deprecating, funny way. It is very au-courant with the protagonist's blog having a major role in the story. Fun poolside reading.
This is a fun book for me. It's not particularly enlightening but I knew all the sights and bars and cafes, even when the author didn't name them. It made me ache to visit Argentina again. Buenos Aires will forever be a second home to me! It didn't make me smarter, but it did make me more grateful for the opportunity I had, and it made me wish I'd taken better advantage of it!
Omg, so awesomely bad. You will hate the main character, Cassie. She's obsessed with staying with "the plan" for her life. The plot is preposterous. The only thing that made it awesome is that my three girlfriends and I all read it together when we went to Buenos Aires and then made fun of it. I would DEFINITELY recommend it if you're in a similar scenario.
Cassie's life is going to her carefully laid out plan until she loses her job and catches her fiance cheating on her with his ex. On a whim, Cassie goes against all of her careful planning and books a plane ticket to Buenos Aires, Argentina. She plans to stay for 6 months to plan her new life or leave her meticulous planning ways behind and simply live. This is a very fluffy but cute book.
Aug 11, 2011
Carol katz
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Okay. i know it's not the finest literature but it was just what I needed. Cassie loses job, loses fiance and drunkenly books a flight to and an apt in Buenos Aires. Enter gourgeous sexy Porteno, Mateo, and well, you can figure out the rest.
So it's not Hemingway. Sue me. I loved it.
So it's not Hemingway. Sue me. I loved it.
It was an entertaining chick-lit read only because I was in Argentina at the time of reading. The author's observations on Buenos Aires and Argentinians were what made the book readable. The plot was predictable and the character development was thin. But it had a satisfying (even if predictable) ending.
This was a fun summer read (in the range of confessions of a shopaholic). I especially enjoyed it since I've learned a lot about argrentine customs over the last few years and so many were in there. I was only in Buenos Aires for a day, but am looking forward to going back and seeing more.
Jul 30, 2011
Jen
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Delightfully refreshing, funny and whilst perhaps a little predictable, still a great, enjoyable read.
Having never been to Buenos Aires, I can't comment on the how well the book reflects the city, but it has certainly whetted my appetite to go and check it out myself.
Having never been to Buenos Aires, I can't comment on the how well the book reflects the city, but it has certainly whetted my appetite to go and check it out myself.
Is it wrong to have liked this incredibly predictable and light-hearted book? In my defense, I think there is just something about reading a book that takes place in the exact same places you are hanging out in at the time, which is most likely the only thing that made it enjoyable.
Dec 22, 2007
Sarah
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
People looking for a feel good weekend read
I am not a big chick lit type but I am a sucker for any book that has a locale to which I have never been in the title. Is that shallow?
Anyway, this was a nice book. It was not too deep and it's theme was that the best things are often unexpected and that you ahve to be open to the unexpected but it did give soem Buenos Aires atmosphere which I enjoyed. I don't know how accurate it was but I enjoyed it anyway.
I do know that it was very light on the history and political situation of Argentina i...more
Anyway, this was a nice book. It was not too deep and it's theme was that the best things are often unexpected and that you ahve to be open to the unexpected but it did give soem Buenos Aires atmosphere which I enjoyed. I don't know how accurate it was but I enjoyed it anyway.
I do know that it was very light on the history and political situation of Argentina i...more
This book was an average romance storyline. The characters are well developed and have their own little idiosyncracies that make them interesting and often humorous. But like most "chick lit" it's predictable. But, it was a quick, light-hearted read. Perfect for a rainy day.
Sure it was fluff and took me a while to read. But this is a must read for any girl who has had her heart/plans broken by a guy or life and struggled with getting back on the wagon. It made me laugh and cry and was just...well...true. Now I just wish I had enough money to go somewhere like Buenos Aires.
I liked this book because it was light and fun. I thought at first the main character was going to annoy me too much to keep reading, but her adventure drew me in and kept me reading and I actually ended up liking her.
I knew going in that I was not going to learn or gain anything. It was light and fluffy, predictable, shallow, poorly written and full of all the things that are required to classify it as chic lit. A guilty pleasure.
General empowered-woman happy happy everything turns out for the best fluff. But I enjoyed the setting (Yayyyy Argentina) and the story was pretty cute and more realistic than your standard chick lit to a certain point.
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