false<![CDATA[Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1257721497m/227941.jpg22794116Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the <i>Kilburn Herald</i>, Jemima finds that her only consolation is food. Add to this her passion for her charming, sexy, and unobtainable colleague Ben, and Jemima knows her life is in need of a serious change. When she meets Brad, an eligible California hunk, over the Internet, she has the perfect opportunity to reinvent herself - as JJ, the slim, beautiful, gym-obsessed glamour girl. But when her long-distance Romeo demands that they meet, she must conquer her food addiction to become the bone-thin model of her e-mails - no small feat. <br>With a fast-paced plot that never quits and a surprise ending no reader will see coming, <i>Jemima J</i> is the chronicle of one woman's quest to become the woman she's always wanted to be, learning along the way a host of lessons about attraction, addiction, the meaning of true love, and, ultimately, who she really is.3341834book562000Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swanstotal:17144|5:4239|4:4851|3:4526|2:1802|1:1721|1714459518247091045132falsefalseSat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000Fri Jul 27 07:18:26 -0700 2007Mon Jul 30 20:42:43 -0700 2007 If you are fat: lose weight. You will not be accepted or attracted until you do. If you want to get a date, even on the internet, lie about yourself. Then, when faced with the consequences of that lie, do not stand up for who are, instead diet and...more...]]>
115falsefalseWed Dec 26 06:30:06 -0800 2007Wed Dec 26 10:26:47 -0800 2007 Five reasons why this book is dreadful:
a) The heroine, Jemima, is constantly described as being morbidly obese and too fat to funct...more...]]>
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Jemima J, Jane Green glorifies anorexia, and then tries to claim that the main character is merely "obsessed" with exercising, even though she is clearly not eating. The result? Jemima loses a massive amount of weight (abou...more...]]>
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33falsefalseWed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009Tue Mar 31 18:56:06 -0700 2009Tue Mar 31 18:57:03 -0700 2009 Ketika Gemuk Jemima ga bahagia karena orang selalu menilai dari fisiknya.
Ketika Kurus Jemima juga ga bahagia karena merasa ada yang kurang darinya.
Untung waktu gemuk dia 'sahabatan' ma Ben yang akhirnya jatuh cinta padanya,tapiiiii...setelah dia kurus past...more...]]>
34falsefalseSat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007Wed Dec 05 02:54:44 -0800 2007Sat Dec 08 07:40:09 -0800 2007 I guess what I hated is how the author keeps switching back and forth between first and third person. Maybe if I hadn't majored in English in college I wouldn...more...]]>
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51falsefalseSat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008Wed Jan 21 09:06:28 -0800 2009Wed Jan 21 12:52:38 -0800 2009 I started this book and then put it down over two years ago. Last December, seeing my bookshelves sagging and this being one of the few that I had not read/finished reading, I picked it back up.
I, like most of the reviewers here, am not a fan of the switching from fi...more...]]>
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know it's lite-reading chick lit, but while every other Jane Green book has followed the crappy, uninspired chick lit formula, Jemima J is essentially the book version of comfort food.
You know what's going to happen about six pages in, but um who cares. It's so much fun to read! A gro...more...]]>
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11falsefalseSat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007Mon Dec 31 07:29:29 -0800 2007Mon Dec 31 07:37:16 -0800 2007 The previous reviews sum it up well. But to reiterate: Jemima is an ugly duckling (i.e. overweight and unfashionable) who diets (i.e. does not eat and over-excercises) her way to being a swan (i.e. slim and highlighted) at which point men become interested in her.