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  <title><![CDATA[Was It Something I Said?]]></title>
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  <default_description>When Justine and Barry meet during a plane crash just before the Christmas holidays, the relationship that follows is wild, turbulent, and maybe, just maybe, a keeper.  Justine is a pretty, smart, ambitious lawyer who's tired of being set up on lousy dates. Her eighteen-hour work days get in the way of finding Mr. Right, but she'd rather be home with her dog, drinking salad dressing for dinner and watching The Sound of Music on the VCR anyway. Barry is a good-looking food product manager living on the Upper West side with a rich roommate who is juggling three girlfriends at once but never has the rent. Barry seeks his soulmate, but the fact that he hasn't had a date in a year makes things a little tougher. A comic urban romance about the possibilities and impossibilities of love. Was it Something I Said? is a classic &quot;will they or won't they?&quot; for the nineties that will keep readers guessing until the very end.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">12</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1998</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not finish reading this book because I didn't want to. On the surface the book looks promising, but man was I wrong. I hated the superficial characters except for one. It was pointless and very boring. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 11 08:23:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I bought this book around a decade ago completely based on the back cover description. Specifically what sold the book for me was the part where the back of book blurb alludes to the female protagonist drinking salad dressing alone in her Manhattan appartment. I thought, with a premis like that, it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29841534">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Contemporary novel about love and life in New York City. Justine and<br/>Barry meet during a plane crash, and this is the story about there<br/>relationship. Two people in their mid-thirties who have remained<br/>single thus far, and what ups and downs they go through on their way<br/>to either ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53682075">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I took this book out of Kirsten's backseat before she could donate it to the library. It was entertaining and funny, a little kooky, very New York. Even though it is about young, professional thirty-somethings, it had some poignant and touching moments, and univeral themes. Even we old folks could i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66273276">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 20 11:19:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the very first &quot;chick lit&quot; I read and it really hit home at the time.  It was the 90s, I was looking for love in all the wrong places, I had an idealistic fantasy of how life should be.  This book really hit a nerve with me.  Just like the characters, I really wanted to settle down...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[insightful look at an adult realtionship verses career]]></body>
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    <review id="2791573">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the book, which I read on holiday.  It's a light easy read and easy to pick up and put down.  I wouldn't rush out and buy her next book (this was her first) but would read it if I happened upon it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[feels dated...you've read it before. 'don't make a scene' the author's most recent book is much, much better]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one cracked me up - a nice easy read, a fun adventure of two quirky main characters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[chick lit - decent - NY - another workaholic lawyer book]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable chick lit set in Manhattan.]]></body>
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