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Queen of Babble in the Big City (Queen of Babble #2)
by
Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
Lizzie Nichols is back, pounding the New York City pavement and looking for a job, a place to live, and her proper place in the universe (not necessarily in that order).
When "Summer Fling" Luke uses the L word (Living Together), Lizzie is only too happy to give up her plan of being postgrad roomies with best friend, Shari, in a one-room walk-up in exchange for cohabitation...more
When "Summer Fling" Luke uses the L word (Living Together), Lizzie is only too happy to give up her plan of being postgrad roomies with best friend, Shari, in a one-room walk-up in exchange for cohabitation...more
Hardcover, 307 pages
Published
June 26th 2007
by William Morrow
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I don't think I'll be able to marry, attend a wedding, or listen to Taylor Swift's
'Speak Now', ever again without thinking of this book.
This book was fairly fantastic, like all by Meg,
what I loooooooove the most about her books is that the characters are always SO real,
like they could easily be you, or someone you know,
and this book's heroine, Lizzie, is pretty much every woman I've known,
Yeah, you might not admitt it, but we all have a Lizzie Nichols inside,
a girl that feels like she is not cut...more
'Speak Now', ever again without thinking of this book.
This book was fairly fantastic, like all by Meg,
what I loooooooove the most about her books is that the characters are always SO real,
like they could easily be you, or someone you know,
and this book's heroine, Lizzie, is pretty much every woman I've known,
Yeah, you might not admitt it, but we all have a Lizzie Nichols inside,
a girl that feels like she is not cut...more
I loved the first Queen of Babble book...but ultimately, there is no where for chick lit to go but marriage and the rigors of planning a wedding. Having read it all before, I was a little frustrated and bored with Lizzie Nichols, the aforementioned Queen of Babble, a blabber-mouth and vintage fashion fiend.
The second book returns Lizzie to the States, after meeting Luke--a former investment banker and "prince" with a chateau and vineyard in France. Of course Lizzie encourages him to follow his...more
The second book returns Lizzie to the States, after meeting Luke--a former investment banker and "prince" with a chateau and vineyard in France. Of course Lizzie encourages him to follow his...more
Nov 25, 2008
Jennah
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone looking for a humorous but not to deep book
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The first 1/2 of this one just drug on and on for me. Then the second 1/2 (mostly from when she got what would be her big break in her chosen field), it was pretty good. But I don't buy the Chaz thing. I think that was all "I'm sad, drunk, at a wedding on new year's and now I'm horney." I didn't see any kind of connection between the two of them prior to that. Then to have Luke jump from no future to marry me, I don't buy it. I could see some kind of promise ring maybe, I don't know. But that wa...more
Nov 24, 2008
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ceritanya sangat amat ketebak memang. as usual lah...seperti buku-nya Meg Cabot lainnya, tapi cukup menyenangkanloh membaca buku-buku fairy tale kek gini. Lumayan membangkitkan sisi drama dan putri-putrian di hati saya :mrgreen:
bercerita tentang Lizzie Nichols, si ratu ngoceh yang merasa sangat beruntung bisa pacaran dengan Luke, si 'separuh pangeran' yang memiliki Ibu yang sangat baik (sepertinya) karena mengijinkan Luke dan dirinya tinggal di Apartemen keren di New York City.
Bukankah itu impia...more
bercerita tentang Lizzie Nichols, si ratu ngoceh yang merasa sangat beruntung bisa pacaran dengan Luke, si 'separuh pangeran' yang memiliki Ibu yang sangat baik (sepertinya) karena mengijinkan Luke dan dirinya tinggal di Apartemen keren di New York City.
Bukankah itu impia...more
Listened to on BOCD. Second in a trilogy; I didn't read the first. The only Meg Cabot I have read is the Allie Finkle series (for YA), which I find hilarious, but this book was just meh. It ends on a cliffhanger, but I think I'll just track down a synopsis online rather than read the next book.
The idea is that the main character, Lizzie, gets in trouble because she can't keep her mouth shut, but I didn't really see that as a problem for her more so than it is for anyone else. Anytime another cha...more
The idea is that the main character, Lizzie, gets in trouble because she can't keep her mouth shut, but I didn't really see that as a problem for her more so than it is for anyone else. Anytime another cha...more
Am Anfang war mir nicht wirklich klar, wohin mich die Geschichte eigentlich bringen soll. Lizzie hat ihren Traumprinzen schon gefunden und alles läuft auch irgendwie gut. Luke ist nett, scheint treu zu sein und aufmerksam ist er auch noch. Also was soll dieses fast 400 Seiten Buch?
Doch es geht gar nicht nur um Lizzie. In der Beziehung zwischen ihrer besten Freundin und ihrem besten Freund scheint es zu kriseln. Die Mutter von Luke scheint eine Affäre zu haben und der Brautmodeladen, in dem Lizzi...more
Doch es geht gar nicht nur um Lizzie. In der Beziehung zwischen ihrer besten Freundin und ihrem besten Freund scheint es zu kriseln. Die Mutter von Luke scheint eine Affäre zu haben und der Brautmodeladen, in dem Lizzi...more
This is a fun return to the Lizzie Nichols universe Cabot first introduced us to in 'Queen of Babble'. Lizzie is now in New York City, moving to go after her dream of working in the vintage fashion industry. Sadly, the only job she can get in the field is a non-paying internship in a shop that refurbishes wedding gowns, her dream job. To supplement that income, she works as a lowly receptionist at a prestigious law firm. On top of that, her seemingly perfect boyfriend, Luke, has asked her to mov...more
Although most people say this book isn't as good as the first one, I have to disagree. I think QOB: In the Big City is just as good, better even, than the first one.
Lizzie, now in New York, has decided to move in with Luke. She has to attend countless interviews before finding a job, but because this is Lizzie and she just can't keep her gob shut, she says she'll do the job for free. Que the funny romance.
"Oh! He doesn’t even have morning breath! How does he do that? And why didn’t I jump up f...more
Lizzie, now in New York, has decided to move in with Luke. She has to attend countless interviews before finding a job, but because this is Lizzie and she just can't keep her gob shut, she says she'll do the job for free. Que the funny romance.
"Oh! He doesn’t even have morning breath! How does he do that? And why didn’t I jump up f...more
Lizzie Nichols is back, this time in New York city , looking for an apartment and a job. When summer fling Luke uses the L word as in living together . Lizzie is all to happy to give up on her plan to share an apartment with best friend Shari. But Lizzie is not so lucky in her employment search.As Shari finds the perfect job, Lizzie struggles through one humiliating interview after another either she is over qualified or under qualified for her chosen field of work -vintage - gown -rehab. Shari,...more
I really loved this book! I'm getting into reading loads of chick-lit, very lately. I've recently reread 'Bergdorf Blondes', by Plum Sykes and then I read another of her books, 'Debutante Divorcee'. Followed up with 'Chasing Harry Winston' by Lauren Weisberger. (I'm hardly getting any sleep at night, reading all these books!) But I loved Meg Cabot's character, Lizzie, the most so far. The other books have their intrigue but in a way they are sort of like just romance novels to me, of which I hav...more
Queen of Babble in the Big City is book two of Meg Cabot's Queen of Babble. This review assumes that you have read the first book, Queen of Babble, and may have spoilers for it if you haven't.
The beginning of this book finds Lizzie moving to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a certified wedding dress restorer. Luke is also in New York City pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor. The two of them move into Luke's mother's apartment together while she is living in France with Luke's fa...more
The beginning of this book finds Lizzie moving to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a certified wedding dress restorer. Luke is also in New York City pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor. The two of them move into Luke's mother's apartment together while she is living in France with Luke's fa...more
The sequel to Queen of Babble, which I read a few weeks ago. I think this book is brand new because the date stamped in it said like 17 July 2007! I love that since this isn't like a super indemand author here, they don't even put it on the new book shelve or make you pay for it, like some of the new stuff here. And at first I thought they made a mistake because I couldn't use the autocheck, but nope! All fine.
Picks up where the last book left off. Girl moves to NYC and ends up moving in with he...more
Picks up where the last book left off. Girl moves to NYC and ends up moving in with he...more
Lizzie Nichols di New York!
yaaah,, ajakan dari Luke, cowok musim panasnya dan beruntung lanjut ke musim gugur, buat pindah ke NY. (soalnya Luke mau ngelanjutin kuliah kedokteran buat nolongin anak2). Lizzie tinggal bareng Luke di apartemen ibu Luke yang mewah di fifth avenue ( ya ampun, si Lizzie dan org2 di novel ini ributin apartemen ini mulu) dan membatalkan rencananya berbagi apartemen bareng sahabatnya, Shari (yah coba dipikir, apartemen paling murah di NY ajah 2200/bulan!)
seperti biasan, L...more
yaaah,, ajakan dari Luke, cowok musim panasnya dan beruntung lanjut ke musim gugur, buat pindah ke NY. (soalnya Luke mau ngelanjutin kuliah kedokteran buat nolongin anak2). Lizzie tinggal bareng Luke di apartemen ibu Luke yang mewah di fifth avenue ( ya ampun, si Lizzie dan org2 di novel ini ributin apartemen ini mulu) dan membatalkan rencananya berbagi apartemen bareng sahabatnya, Shari (yah coba dipikir, apartemen paling murah di NY ajah 2200/bulan!)
seperti biasan, L...more
A massive improvement on it’s prequel. Just when you begin to doubt the chick-lit prowess of the mighty Cabot, she thwacks you in your snarky face with ‘Queen of Babble in the Big City’ .
Scatterbrained, babble-prone Lizzie Nichols is back. She’s living with her boyfriend - Luke in a plush 5th Avenue Flat in the city of her dreams, New York. The expert on vintage clothes is bursting with enthusiasm and has that special-sheen which only a happily-ever-after scenario brings.
But just when you start...more
Scatterbrained, babble-prone Lizzie Nichols is back. She’s living with her boyfriend - Luke in a plush 5th Avenue Flat in the city of her dreams, New York. The expert on vintage clothes is bursting with enthusiasm and has that special-sheen which only a happily-ever-after scenario brings.
But just when you start...more
this was a perfectly fun, frothy read that i zipped through in maybe four hours, but it was not without its issues. the plot in a nutshell: lizzie is back in new york city after spending the summer in the south of france, where she met her dream boyfriend, luke. she is temporarily living with luke in his mother's fifth avenue shopping apartment, but she's looking for a place with her best friend, shari, & a job doing garment restoration. then luke suggests that she just stay put & move i...more
I think I'm officially over Meg Cabot. I enjoyed a couple of books in one of her series, but now that I've read 4 books by her, I've found that they're all based on the same story, and they always have the same ending. By the time I got to this book I was able to predict the ending and storyline based on the other books I've read, and they're just not as much fun anymore.
This was the first time I "read" a book by listening to it on audio disc, and it was pretty boring. Maybe the last 45 minutes...more
This was the first time I "read" a book by listening to it on audio disc, and it was pretty boring. Maybe the last 45 minutes...more
Second book in the Queen of Babble series. This time Lizzie is in New York City with her new boyfriend Luke and best friends Shari & Chaz. Lizzie spends the first part of the book job hunting, figuring out where she's going to live, and trying to figure out how she can make her dream of being a wedding gown restoration specialist come true. After all that preliminary stuff, the book gets much more interesting in the second half!
Characters introduced in Queen of Babble are much further develo...more
Characters introduced in Queen of Babble are much further develo...more
I do like chick-lit, it is always funny, sweet and totally silly, and a girl needs silly now and again.
This is the second book about Lizzie Nichols, in the last book she found her prince charming, and he is really a prince too, if one of many French ones. They are living together on 5th Avenue until she can find something with her friend Shari. She also wants to find a job working with what she loves, wedding dresses. Things do not go as she expected and she ends up living with Luke, working as...more
Fun read! This is my first read by this author, although it is the second book in this series. The main character, Lizzie Nichols must have been more of a gossip in the first book but has gotten much better.
Through events that must happen in the first book, Lizzie is now an aspiring wedding dress shop alternator (she likes to take really old wedding dresses and update them, she also find fun vintage clothing for herself), but cannot find a paying job now that she has just moved to the Big City,...more
Through events that must happen in the first book, Lizzie is now an aspiring wedding dress shop alternator (she likes to take really old wedding dresses and update them, she also find fun vintage clothing for herself), but cannot find a paying job now that she has just moved to the Big City,...more
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Not as good as Queen of Babble (#1), but still very enjoyable. Should be at least 3.5 stars.
Yeahs ::
* Same fun writing. Although, I didn't find myself laughing as much as I did with the first book in this series.
* All these vintage clothing and wedding dress refurbishing talk has me missing my sewing machine. This series has me tailoring my shirts that just sit in my closet because they fit funny.
* Shari's story twist. Saw this coming, but it was still a little shocker.
* Like the new characte...more
Yeahs ::
* Same fun writing. Although, I didn't find myself laughing as much as I did with the first book in this series.
* All these vintage clothing and wedding dress refurbishing talk has me missing my sewing machine. This series has me tailoring my shirts that just sit in my closet because they fit funny.
* Shari's story twist. Saw this coming, but it was still a little shocker.
* Like the new characte...more
Druh díl o smolařce se tentokrát odehrává v New Yorku. Opět se setkáváme s Lukem i Lizzie, i když musím říci, že tentokrát trošku jinak. Tomuto dílu chyběla ta dávka romantičnosti, na kterou jsme si zvykli v prvním díle. Nemohu říci, že by se mi pokračování nelíbilo, ale prostě - nebylo to ono. Spíše nastaly zvraty ve vztahu Chaze a Sheri, objevila se zde nová postava - Tiffany, která mi připadala spíše jako nutná vsuvka do příběhu, jinak by de facto nebylo o čem psát.
Častokrát mě mátlo nařčení...more
Častokrát mě mátlo nařčení...more
Oh Lizzie. Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie. What will you and your big mouth get into next??
Queen of Babble in the Big City is the second book of the series. This time we find Lizzie back in the States after her summer in France (where she met Luke). Only thing is, well, Lizzie doesn't have a job or a place to live in the city just yet. She and her best friend Shari are looking for one though... at least that is, until Luke asks Lizzie to move in with him.
Eventually, Lizzie lands not one, but two jobs (...more
Queen of Babble in the Big City is the second book of the series. This time we find Lizzie back in the States after her summer in France (where she met Luke). Only thing is, well, Lizzie doesn't have a job or a place to live in the city just yet. She and her best friend Shari are looking for one though... at least that is, until Luke asks Lizzie to move in with him.
Eventually, Lizzie lands not one, but two jobs (...more
The first "Queen of Babble" book had me laughing out loud on every page. So picking up the second book was a no-brainer...and suddenly I am completely hooked to this 3-book series. While I thought that this book had less humor than the first, it still was adorably written. Reading Lizzie's thought process always brings the phrase "word vomit" to mind, in that once she starts talking/thinking...there is no stopping her. She thinks/says anything and everything, mindful that she may get in trouble...more
I actually liked this book better than the first book (which came across as a little too Cinderella-ish, even for my taste!). In this book, Lizzie Nichols moves to NYC to work on her dream of opening a shop that refurbishes clothes and to be close to her fabulously rich boyfriend, Luke. Of course, from that point, nothing works out as planned. Lizzie finally takes on a part-time job working for a law firm to pay the bills while she works part time *for free* at a wedding dress shop to learn more...more
This book was okay, but it took me about 3/4 of the way to really get into it. AND there will be a third book about Lizzie, becuase that is just the way it ended. Not the best book by Meg Cabot. I wish she'd find a new character to write about. I'd have much rather read a book about two of the minor characters in this book!
It was an okay book, though, as are all by this author.
It was an okay book, though, as are all by this author.
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After having found her perfect boyfriend, Lizzie is happy to come to New York to establish her career. She happily agrees when Luke asks her to move in with her. She finds a job in Chez Henri, which is a vintage wedding gown refurbishing establishment. Everything goes well, and Lizzie gets these wild wedding fantasies. She expects Luke to propose her, but everything goes wrong when she gets a sewing machine instead. They break up. Chaz, Luke's best friend helps Lizzie after the break up and thin...more
I adore this series, always been a huge fan of Meg Cabot's & this is no exception.
Its about Lizzie Nicholas & how she moved to the big city to make her own life there. Doesn't have a place to stay because she didn't plan it out ahead of time but makes the leap anyways. After dumping Andy, she moves to the big city to make a new start.
She moves in with Luke whom she's been dating for 2 months instead of her best friend because Lizzie's running out of money, can't afford to live with anyon...more
Its about Lizzie Nicholas & how she moved to the big city to make her own life there. Doesn't have a place to stay because she didn't plan it out ahead of time but makes the leap anyways. After dumping Andy, she moves to the big city to make a new start.
She moves in with Luke whom she's been dating for 2 months instead of her best friend because Lizzie's running out of money, can't afford to live with anyon...more
Lizzie Nichols, the big-hearted, big mouth, hopeless romantic is back. She's living with her rich, aristocratic, boyfriend Jean-Luc and looking for a job and a place to live. Luke suggests they live together and her job adventures bring her opportunities. She works part-time at her best friend Shari's boyfriend Chaz's father's law firm as a receptionist. She offered to work for free at with a certified wedding gown restorer from France who business is failing.
Lizzie works hard and talks the whol...more
Lizzie works hard and talks the whol...more
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Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).
Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flun...more
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Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flun...more
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