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Boy Meets Girl (Boy #2)

by Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)

3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 · rating details · 12,047 ratings · 666 reviews

Meet Kate Mackenzie. She:

* works for the T.O.D. (short for Tyrannical Office Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal)

* is sleeping on the couch because her boyfriend of ten years refuses to commit

* can't find an affordable studio apartment anywhere in New York City

* thinks things can't get any worse

They can. Becau...more

Paperback, 383 pages

Published January 6th 2004 by Avon Trade

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Dec 08, 2012 Freckles rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 3meg-cabot, 1contemporary-nonparanormal, 1i-own, 1perfect-cover, 1women-romance, 1humorous

zboznuju meg cabotovou. kdybych mela byt objektivni, jsou to spis 4*, ale kdyz ja se tak bavila, ze proste nemam chut byt objektivni ;-)

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Jan 16, 2009 kamxx rated it 4 of 5 stars

One thing that struck me most is when the father of the Hortzags said: “..I can see how this information might be upsetting to some of you. However, I had a near death experience a year ago, and it taught me one thing: Don’t waste your time on astupid shit. And frankly, all I seem to hear from some of you people is stupid shit.

“..Now I would appreciate it if you would all quit calling me, e-mailing me, FedExing me, faxing me, and leaving messages for me at the hotel desk. I am on VACATION. I wil...more

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Dec 08, 2011 Icha rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Boy Meets Girl
Meg Cabot, 2004
Avon Books, Harper Collins Publishere.Inc.
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Kathleen “Kate” Mackenzie is a Personel Representative Human Resources The New York Journal. One day, Amy Jenkins, The Director, asked her to fire Ida Lopez from Craft Food Services The New York Journal, just because she did not give a pie to Mr Stuart Hertzog.
Amy Jenkins is very angry because Mr Hertzog is actually her “fiancee” and she claims that Ida Lopez should take the responsibility of this...more Boy Meets Girl
Meg Cabot, 2004
Avon Books, Harper Collins Publishere.Inc.
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Kathleen “Kate” Mackenzie is a Personel Representative Human Resources The New York Journal. One day, Amy Jenkins, The Director, asked her to fire Ida Lopez from Craft Food Services The New York Journal, just because she did not give a pie to Mr Stuart Hertzog.
Amy Jenkins is very angry because Mr Hertzog is actually her “fiancee” and she claims that Ida Lopez should take the responsibility of this case. Unfortunately, Amy did not give her any warning before she fire her. Instead of being nice to Ida Lopez, Amy hire a lawyer to claim Ida Lopez.
The bad news is, Kate should give the terrific fire things to Ida Lopez while Kate herself disagree with this decision. Well, everybody love Ida Lopez and her magnificent hands. She cook very well so everybody could eat happily without feeling guilty over fat or cholesterol.
Kate has just moved from her home –where she lives for 10 years with her boyfriend, Dale- to Jen’s home. Jen –or Jennifer Sadler – is her best friend. Jen has one husband named Craig and they are trying to have a baby now. That is why sometimes Craig do not really agree with this plan to let Kate stay for a long period at their house. Kate herself is still trying to find a proper place to stay, considering she has limited account and undelightfully job.
Back to Amy, The lawyer she hired is Mitchell Hertzog, Stuart’s brother. Stuart’ family is not that cool, actually. Stuart loves to make trouble with Mitchell. Stacy and Janice, his sisters, are on Mitch side while his mom loves him so much and always on his side. No matter what Stuart does, his mom always support him and this makes his sisters and brothers crazy.
The unpredictable things come when Kate meets Mitchell and they are falling in love each other. They fight together to give the justice for Ida Lopez, because everybody love Ida. This makes Amy’s claims become a boomerang for her and she finally put her career in trouble.
This book is not boring because Meg does not describe many things in paragraphs. She uses an email and short messages format, so that we –as a reader- do not get bored reading many things while we still understand what situation is happening at that time. She brings us to create the condition by ourselves and imagine it as our creation while we still in context.
Meg Cabot’s books always teach me many things, such as, give someone what they should have and do not take their right just to satisfy your selfishness, because one day, the truth will come out and you will get the seeds you sow. Meg shows how friendship is, how to give something from your heart, what willingness is and what loyalty is. She tells us that love is not about sex and poem, love is about sharing each other and learn, prepare for the future and commitment. This is a nice book with many hidden precious lessons inside. I give two tumbs up for this book.

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Feb 24, 2008 Keris rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Ten pages into this book and I was ready to give up. But I persevered and found myself getting into it despite myself. The most important thing to realise before starting this is that it's not a novel. That is to say there are no chapters and no dialogue. Instead, the entire book is made up of letters, emails, transcripts of instant message conversations, minutes from meetings, diary entries and just about anything else that can be put down on paper.

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Jan 28, 2008 MJ rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to MJ by: The complete Idiots guide to the Ultimate reading list

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You might know the name Meg Cabot from the Princess Diaries series but this book is nothing like Princess Diaries. It centers around Kate who is working as an HR rrep for a New York Newspaper called The Journal. She has a horrible boss and works with her best friend Jen. Her boss Amy asks her to fire the most popular person at the Newspaper Ida (the desserts cart lady). Ida refuses to serves desserts to people she thinks doesnot deserve them (mainly Amy's boyfriend Stuart who is also cheif legal...more

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Nov 24, 2008 Jennifer rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, romance

In a continuing "series*" of modern epistolary romances, we have added IM conversations to the mix, and journals kept mostly on scrap paper. Again we have a recently jilted protagonist who bumps into an extremely eligible bachelor only in this book, over the course of a fortnight they interact maybe four times for maybe an hour each time. But they still manage to fall madly and deeply in love, overcoming several obstacles (each of them dealing with their families and their work, but not particul...more

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Oct 23, 2012 Jenna Burks rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Genre- Realistic Fiction
To me this book's theme is love. The book is about a girl Kate and she works for this newspaper place, whatever they are called. Ida Lopez just got fired for not letting Stuart Hertzog have a piece of her homemade delicious goodness. Kate has been with her boyfriend Dale for ten years, then he starts his own band and he breaks up with Kate. Well, Kate breaks up with him. In the midst of all of this Stuart Hertzog is newly engaged to Amy Jenkins. Soon after Ka...more

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Aug 16, 2012 Dalimar rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

En esta historia tenemos a Kate,una chica de Kentuchy graduada de trabajo social.Vive en Nueva York tratando de desarrollarse ayudando al pueblo que es su vocación.De hecho es una chica que aunque muy ingenua(cosa que deteste profundamente) es una gran chica con muchos principios.No se si la idea de la autora era que Kate representara el hecho que ella no encajaba en Nueva York,pero no me quedo del todo claro ya que quedo medio inconcluzo el final de la historia(de eso hablare mas adelante).Al...more En esta historia tenemos a Kate,una chica de Kentuchy graduada de trabajo social.Vive en Nueva York tratando de desarrollarse ayudando al pueblo que es su vocación.De hecho es una chica que aunque muy ingenua(cosa que deteste profundamente) es una gran chica con muchos principios.No se si la idea de la autora era que Kate representara el hecho que ella no encajaba en Nueva York,pero no me quedo del todo claro ya que quedo medio inconcluzo el final de la historia(de eso hablare mas adelante).Al no poder ayudar como era su propósito y estar desempleada su mejor amiga,Jen la ayudo a conseguir un trabajo en Recursos Humanos en el periódico donde esta trabaja.Ahí por culpa de su jefa que es una autentica bruja le toca despedir a la señora que lleva los postres a la empresa.Esta al saberse despedida injustamente demanda a la empresa y Mitch Hertzog es quien se hace cargo de asesorar legalmente al periódico.

De Mitch puedo decir que es un tipazo,aunque la historia se centra mas en el personaje de Kate,este sin dudas te llega al corazón.El flechazo de ambos es instantáneo,pero Kate trata de alejarse de esa atracción pues acaba de romper con su único novio,al que dejo porque este no quería comprometerse(Un musico que es un completo idiota) y que la persigue en casi toda la historia,además Mitch es abogado y ella siente cierta antipatia hacia estos y lo que ellos representan.Pero luego se da cuenta que el no es como había imaginado si no que es un sueño de hombre.

La historia es a simple vista es fácil,el problema es que la mayor parte de las interacciones y comunicacion de los personajes es atraves de e-mail,celulares,fax y demás comunicaciones tecnologicas,que no esta mal pues como bien sabemos así vivimos en el mundo,globalizado por la tecnología.Así que fue una idea muy original de Meg Cabot ,eso no es cuestionable.El problema es que mientras lees la historia entre tanto mensaje,pierdes el foco y tienes que volver a leer para ver quienes realmente son los que se están comunicando.

Además creo que forzó demaciado el final y nos perdimos de saber muchas cosas que les ocurre a los personajes secundarios que tan importante fueron en la historia.Estuve leyendo del papa de Mitch y al final solo envio un e-mail a toda su familia,algo sin ninguna importancia.El libro no esta tan mal,pero tampoco es como para morirte de la risa y sinceramente es completamente olvidable(less)

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May 16, 2012 Ines Diaz rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is told in emails, IMs, and brief journal entries. My first time reading a book in this format, I have to admit sometimes was frustrating! But as a Meg Cabot fan, I love her writing style, so I loved at the end!!

Meet Kate Mackenzie. She:

works for the T.O.D. (short for Tyrannical Office Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal)

is sleeping on the couch because her boyfriend of ten years refuses to commit

can't find an affordable s...more

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Apr 04, 2012 Nath rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit, contemporary, read-2007, romance

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Jan 01, 2012 Bissfan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Bissfan by: Feder

In Kates Leben läuft nicht alles so, wie sie es sich wünschen würde. Ihr Job in der Personalabteilung des New York Journal ist dank ihrer tyrannischen Chefin Amy Jenkins die absolute Hölle. Und auch privat läuft es alles andere als rosig, da ihr (mittlerweile) Ex-Freund es nach zehn Jahren immer noch nicht über sich bringt, ihr das Ja-Wort zu geben. Ein Umstand, der sie dazu veranlasst, die gemeinsame Wohnung zu verlassen, um auf der Couch ihrer Arbeitskollegin und besten Freundin Jen Sadler zu...more In Kates Leben läuft nicht alles so, wie sie es sich wünschen würde. Ihr Job in der Personalabteilung des New York Journal ist dank ihrer tyrannischen Chefin Amy Jenkins die absolute Hölle. Und auch privat läuft es alles andere als rosig, da ihr (mittlerweile) Ex-Freund es nach zehn Jahren immer noch nicht über sich bringt, ihr das Ja-Wort zu geben. Ein Umstand, der sie dazu veranlasst, die gemeinsame Wohnung zu verlassen, um auf der Couch ihrer Arbeitskollegin und besten Freundin Jen Sadler zu nächtigen. Doch anders als gehofft, soll das erst der Anfang einer Reihe wirklich schlimmer Begebenheiten sein, die das Leben der jungen Personalreferendarin gehörig durcheinander bringen. Alles beginnt damit, dass Amy Jenkins alias die SBT (Schreckliche Büro-Tyrannin) Kate dazu zwingt, die überaus beliebte Dessertspezialistin der Cafeteria Ida Lopez vor die Tür zu setzen, da diese sich weigerte, dem Firmenanwalt und Verlobten der SBT ein Stück von ihrem Kuchen abzugeben. Was folgt ist eine unschöne Klage von Ida. Eine Klage, die Mitchell Hertzog auf den Plan ruft: Anwalt und Schwager in Spe der SBT. Und obwohl sich Kate geschworen hat, sich nie mit einem Anwalt einzulassen, kann sie nicht leugnen, wie sehr sie sich zu dem dunkelhaarigen Mitchell hingezogen fühlt ...

Zugegebenermaßen war ich etwas überrascht, als ich das Buch zum ersten Mal aufgeschlagen habe. Meine erste Reaktion war Verwunderung ob der eigentümlichen Darstellungsform, welche die Autorin für „Der will doch nur spielen“ verwendet hat, denn statt in Kapiteln und Absätzen wird die Geschichte von Kate MacKenzie in E-Mails, Messenger-Ausschnitten, Verwarnprotokollen, Kritzeleien auf Speisekarten und Tagebucheinträgen erzählt.
Meine Verwunderung wurde aber ziemlich schnell von Neugierde abgelöst, da diese etwas unkonventionelle Art der Darstellung durchaus ihre Reize mit sich bringt.

Ich war wirklich angenehm überrascht, wie problemlos ich als Leser der Geschichte folgen konnte, obwohl sie nicht als wirklich zusammenhängender Text vor mir lag. Es war fast so, als müsse man sich als Leser ein reales Geschehen aus Beweismitteln erschließen und auswerten, was gegeben wurde. Dadurch wird der Leser zum Mitdenken angeregt. Es wurden mir durch den E-Mail-Verkehr der einzelnen Figuren Einblicke in deren Charakter gewährt, die mich manchmal lachen, manchmal wütend schnauben oder auch einfach nur ungläubig den Kopf schütteln ließen.
Mir kam es so vor, dass durch die Darstellungsform das Ganze etwas Persönliches bekam, das es dem Leser viel leichter machte, manche Figuren zu hassen und manche einfach zu lieben, da der Charakter der Protagonisten und der Nebenfiguren perfekt in Szene gesetzt wurde.

Da haben wir zum einen Kate, die Protagonistin, von der nicht nur E-Mails, sondern auch Tagebucheinträge über das Geschehen berichten. Und genau diese Tagebucheinträge bringen die nötigen Hintergrundinfos, die das Geschehen rund machen und der Geschichte zusätzlich emotionale Tiefe verleihen. Denn obgleich die E-Mails und Messenger-Ausschnitte viel über das Wesen der Personen verraten, so bleiben doch hier die Randbegebenheiten etwas außen vor.
Am gelungensten finde ich aber nicht Kate, sondern ihre Gegenspielerin Amy, das Musterbeispiel einer hinterhältigen Schlange. Getrieben von der Sorge wie sie auf andere wirkt und was andere von ihr halten, nutzt sie die Macht, die ihr ihre Position gibt, schamlos aus. Erst in der E-Mail-Korrespondenz mit ihren „Freundinnen“ zeigt sie ihr wahres Gesicht, ein Gesicht, für das sie einfach gehasst werden muss.
Doch auch die beiden Hertzog-Brüder sorgen mit ihrer gegensätzlichen Art für Glanzmomente. Während Stuart nach außen wie ein selbstgefälliger Wichtigtuer wirkt, wird durch seinen Mailverkehr klar, dass er auch als erwachsener Mann noch ein verweichlichter Muttersohn ist, der – sollte er seinen Willen nicht durchsetzen – entweder zu Mami rennt oder auf Erpressung setzt.
Das genaue Gegenteil ist sein Bruder Mitchell. Ihn schert seine Reputation wenig und auch nicht das Geld, das er als Staranwalt verdienen könnte. Am glücklichsten war er, als er als Pflichtverteidiger Dealern und Prostituierten zur Seite stehen konnte. Er ist ein Lebemann, der die Welt bereist hat. Er steht mit beiden Beinen fest auf der Erde und hat keine Probleme damit, das „schwarze Schaf“ der Familie zu sein. Seine Wertvorstellungen und sein manchmal ziemlich loses Mundwerk machen ihn einfach – ganz im Gegensatz zu seinem Bruder – zu einem einnehmenden Charakter, der sich leicht in die Herzen der Leser zu stehlen vermag.

Gegen Ende überschlagen sich die Ereignisse allerdings meiner Meinung nach etwas zu sehr und ich musste leider ein paar Mal zurückblättern, um noch einmal aufmerksamer nachzulesen, was eigentlich passiert ist, um dem Geschehen wieder folgen zu können. Aber die kleinen Seitenhiebe, die das ganze Buch durchziehen, haben dieses Manko doch ziemlich gut auszugleichen vermocht.

Alles in allem hat „Der will doch nur Spielen“ sicher hier und da eine kleine Schwäche, die aufgrund der unkonventionellen Aufmachung aber nicht allzu sehr ins Gewicht fallen. Und nachdem ich mich als Leser erst einmal an die Darstellungsform gewöhnt hatte, bot die Geschichte einen kurzweiligen und ungemein sympathischen Lesespass, der ältere Mädchen und junge Frauen sicher an so manchem Sommerabend unterhalten kann.
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Jul 29, 2011 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of Chicklit Fluff

Recommended to Lisa (Harmonybites) by: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

Shelves: chick-lit, contemporary, fiction, humor-and-comedy, novels, romance, ultimate-reading-list

This was listed as recommended reading in the chicklit genre, which I haven't read a lot in, but I did love Bridget Jones Diary, the template for this sort of fiction. Like that book, this is about life, love and career from a female point of view in a contemporary urban setting, in this case New York City. Also like Bridget Jones it's fluffy and light, and in an unconventional narrative structure.

The book opens with a draft business letter, complete with strike outs, by twenty-something Kate M...more

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Jul 24, 2011 fennie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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another cute, fun epistolary tale from meg cabot. it's definitely dramatic, yet somehow i totally eat up kate's dramatics no matter how ridiculous. the characters are cute, though relatively one-dimensional (then again what do you expect from a romantic comedy in the form of a book) and the nods to the characters from 'the boy next door' were nice.

on the whole, the story flowed really well; although it was strange for kate to be 'writing' to herself on restaurant menus and writing in her journal...more

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Mar 23, 2010 Lauren rated it 2 of 5 stars

I read this book because one of my students lent it to me and I wanted to be able to talk about it with her. To be honest, I wanted to quit reading it after the first 20 pages. I didn't really like the style of writing (all emails, IM's, and journal entries) and the plot was a bit too dumb for me. I ended up pushing through though because of the recommendation and the book did get better. My favorite part of the whole thing was the last email from the father...

"I can see how this information mig...more

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Aug 20, 2009 Stephy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Again another series book. And of course this was part 2. But again I wasn't confused by not have reading book 1.
This isn't written like a normal book...It's journal entries emails and im's but it was put together well and you didn't get confused. Enjoyable.

Meet Kate Mackenzie. She works for the T.O.D. (short for Tyrannical Office Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal) is sleeping on the couch because her boyfriend of ten years refuse...more

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Jul 19, 2009 Anne rated it 4 of 5 stars

As a fan of Meg Cabot, I know that her books can be funny at times, but I was surprised at the number of times I actually laughed out loud while reading this book.

Although this is definitely a stand-alone book, I did appreciate the return of several characters from Boy Next Door in minor roles as well as the chance to see just how vile Amy Johnson (unlike most of the HR professionals I know) really is.

I also appreciated the diary entries (some of which were very creatively written between the li...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Primeballerina rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Vorab sei gesagt: Meg Cabot gehört schon seit meinen frühen Teenie-Zeiten zu meiner absoluten Lieblingsautorin - mit der Prinzessinen-Reihe hat sie mein Herz erobert, danach folgten die 'erwachsenen' Frauenromane und alle begeisterten mich. So habe ich mich natürlich wieder mal wahnsinnig gefreut, endlich mal wieder was neues von ihr lesen zu können!

Der neueste Roman, "Der will doch nur spielen", spielt genau so wie schon sein Vorgänger, "Um die Ecke geküsst", in der Redaktion des NY Journal, nu...more Vorab sei gesagt: Meg Cabot gehört schon seit meinen frühen Teenie-Zeiten zu meiner absoluten Lieblingsautorin - mit der Prinzessinen-Reihe hat sie mein Herz erobert, danach folgten die 'erwachsenen' Frauenromane und alle begeisterten mich. So habe ich mich natürlich wieder mal wahnsinnig gefreut, endlich mal wieder was neues von ihr lesen zu können!

Der neueste Roman, "Der will doch nur spielen", spielt genau so wie schon sein Vorgänger, "Um die Ecke geküsst", in der Redaktion des NY Journal, nur heißt unsere Protagonistin Kate MacKenzie. Kate ist Personalreferentin, hat vor kurzem erst ihren langjährigen Freund, einen Musiker, verlassen, da er sie nach 10 Jahren Beziehung immer noch nicht heiraten wollte. Zwecks dessen ist sie aus der gemeinsamen Wohnung ausgezogen und schläft jetzt auf der Couch ihrer besten Freundin Jen, die zur Zeit mit ihrem Ehemann versucht schwanger zu werden. Dass das nicht unbedingt die besten Lebensbedingungen sind, dürfte sich von selbst geklärt haben... Nun verlangt Kates überaus gehässige Chefin Amy Jenkins von ihr, dass sie eine langjährige, 64-jährige und vor allem sehr beliebte Mitarbeiterin feuert, da diese Amys Verlobten, einem widerlichen und unbeliebten Anwalt der Firma, keinen Kuchen ausgeben wollte. Nun, die beliebte Mrs. Lopez wird gekündigt, worauf sie Klage gegen die Kündigung einreicht. Und so nimmt alles seinen üblichen Lauf, da ein sehr gutaussehender - und vor allem menschlicher - Anwalt sich der Verteidigung der Firma annimmt. Und Kate so natürlich mit ihm zusammenarbeiten muss...

Natürlich ist die Handlung zu voraussehen und alles läuft so ab, wie es für typische Chick-Lit-Romane üblich ist - doch trotzdem macht das Leben jedes Mal großen Spaß! Cabots Schreibstil ist einfach fantastisch und auch diesmal ist die Handlung nur durch gegenseitige E-Mails der Figuren oder Kates Tagebucheinträge beschrieben. Die Handlung ist aber dennoch klar erkennbar und die 400 Seiten lesen sich wirklich wahnsinnig schnell weg - viel zu schnell sogar!
Nun, was will man eigentlich mehr dazu sagen: höchste Sternchenzahl, wieder mal ein Favorit von Meg Cabot, also lesen!
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Nov 08, 2009 Emily rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm not sure that this deserved 3 stars, but I'm stickin' with it. This was a quick read told entirely in various written communications (e-mails, journal entries, etc). I enjoy knowing that it's going to be a light fluffy read going in and this didn't let me down there. What bothered me was the 'misconception' Why is this done so often? I just don't get it) and the fact that every character sounded EXACTLY the same. (Was the reiterations really necessary? I DO believe the words 'I mean' were th...more

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May 19, 2013 Shannon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Somedays all you really want is a book where the girl gets the boy, discovers self-respect for herself, and receives the recognition at work that she deserves.

If that is what you are looking for, boy oh boy is this the book for you.

While this book can be read as a standalone novel, it does make reference to characters that were in one of Cabot's earlier novel; "The Boy Next Door".

This book isn't some master work of fiction that will change your life. The format of instant message conversation...more

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Aug 23, 2011 Christine Blachford rated it 4 of 5 stars

Plot: Kate’s a PR assistant and through emails, answerphone and instant messages, scribbled notes on menus and letters from the boss, she tells the story of her struggle against the unfairness in the workplace, whilst she discovers a whole new breed of man.

Characters: Kate’s lovely, Amy or the T.O.D is not. Mitch is lovely, a real proper gentleman. And Kate’s friend Jen is lovely, sticking by her and making it all right at the end.

Style Of Writing: I didn’t think I’d like it, given that it’s not...more

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Aug 09, 2010 Marc rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was recommended to me because I was looking for more chick-lit. I really should have read some of the sample pages before buying it.

The main problem I had was that it's not a traditional book. It's not told in a straight, normal narrative. There's notes on menus, emails, journal entries, ims, etc. If the other book I wasn't reading didn't already have that (The Historian), I wouldn't have minded as much. All of this makes it easy enough to read and surprisingly fast but it also feels l...more

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Jan 09, 2012 Julie Swarth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was looking for something fun and light and that's what I got. The characters were fun and silly and the book is something you can read in an afternoon on the beach or a cross country flight as was the case with me. I had only two peeves and considering I love Meg Cabot,l they're small but worth noting.

1) The whole adding pets as characters thing. I found it a little distracting. I get that the premise is centered on the beloved pets of her neighbor, but there was a little too much focus on th...more

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Apr 12, 2011 Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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OH MY GOSH!! I'm still hyperventilating from laughing so hard. Seriously, I was reading this at school and probably looked like an idiot, cackling into my "math notes". The whole book is written in emails, IM's, and other correspondences. I loved it. I've only read one other book written like that, but that was a while ago, so this was quite refreshing. Kate was adorable, the little spaz. And Mitch... I think I love him. Actually, I know I do! The book was cute, funny, and dealt with the issues...more

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Nov 02, 2011 Alice rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really liked this book. In fact, I love the boy series. And the fact that in this book there are lots of characters who appeared in the last one added something familiar to the story. And i really liked Mitch Hertzog. He was so perfect. That's the thing with meg cabot: she makes her male characters so good. I fall in love with all of them. Anyway, I'd like to comment here how much I hated Stuart and Amy. They were so shallow and selfish, I kept thinking to myself how much I'd hate to have peop...more

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Oct 24, 2010 Bianne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I haven’t read a Meg Cabot’s book that has not made me laugh a lot or think some of the attitudes of the characters are like my own. But this was sooo good, really.
Kathleen Mackenzie, better known as Katie, graduated in psychology, and always had the intention of opening his own clinic for free advice, because she really likes helping people. But things have not gone as she thought: Katie is 26, recently ended her 10-years-relationship with Dale (he discovered that despite all this time together...more I haven’t read a Meg Cabot’s book that has not made me laugh a lot or think some of the attitudes of the characters are like my own. But this was sooo good, really.
Kathleen Mackenzie, better known as Katie, graduated in psychology, and always had the intention of opening his own clinic for free advice, because she really likes helping people. But things have not gone as she thought: Katie is 26, recently ended her 10-years-relationship with Dale (he discovered that despite all this time together he does not know if he wants to stay with her forever, so no marriage for now! ), left the apartment they lived together and is now sleeping on the couch of the apartment of her best friend and her husband(Jen and Craig), who are trying to have a baby (she got to witness some attempts by accident O.o) and works in human resources department of a Journal where she feels she does not help anyone, unless she hires a person and see that she really needed the job and such. And where is her famous clinic with psychological counseling for free? That's the problem, it is not. Katie is not a big fan of lawyers. She thinks that all of them don’t really care about people and are like Stuart Hertzog, senior lawyer at the Journal, which will cause the resignation of Mrs. Ida Lopez, a very nice person and loved by all (except Stuart) and responsible for dessert, because she constantly refused to serve more of their goodies to him, saying he didn’t deserved to be served.

It is around the resignation of her that the story takes place, as Katie tried to stop the firing, but couldn’t because her boss , Amy Jenkins is dating Stuart. The Journal, then, is sued for having fired Ida without a warning letter and Katie finds himself having to testify against the nice lady, when she would prefer be testifying in favor, and on top , having for lawyer Mitchell Hertzog ,Stuart's brother, that she later realizes that is not the way she imagines that all lawyers are ... And what's the end of the history? Read and you'll know =D

I recommend!

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Jun 23, 2012 Ashley rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary-romance, library

Second novel in Cabot's "Boy" series, set in the same universe as The Boy Next Door. A stand alone novel, but I feel I got more out of it having read the earlier volume, as many characters overlapped and past details were referenced (I especially smiled when Vivica turned up). Turns out John from BND isn't the only doting uncle of the cute twin nieces. I loved the unconventional format of the narrative - emails, IM conversations, office memos, deposition transcriptions, journal entries, voice ma...more

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May 18, 2011 Aline R. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Eu li esse livro já faz algum tempo. Mas eu gostei dele, principalmente, pela maneira como ele foi feito. A história é contada por meio de emails e conversas na internet. Achei muito criativo. Sem contar que a Kate e o Mitchell são um casal super fofo. E a Jen e a Dolly são super engraçadas.

Só achei a história um pouco clichê... Mas tem como não se apaixonar pelos livros da Meg?

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Feb 18, 2012 Carla rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In whichever angle, this is definitely not The Book for guys. xD

It is, however, the perfect mirror for women. Everything about this book is just silly girlish. I swear if it isn't about anything a woman undergoes through then I'm not sure I'm a woman myself. By that, I mean EXes, soon-to-be-boyfriends, fiancees, and girl bestfriends combined with life and conflict rolled into a single book of pure and non-stop gossip. Top that.

As a matter of fact, I unexpectedly liked it.

Meg Cabot - the very s...more In whichever angle, this is definitely not The Book for guys. xD

It is, however, the perfect mirror for women. Everything about this book is just silly girlish. I swear if it isn't about anything a woman undergoes through then I'm not sure I'm a woman myself. By that, I mean EXes, soon-to-be-boyfriends, fiancees, and girl bestfriends combined with life and conflict rolled into a single book of pure and non-stop gossip. Top that.

As a matter of fact, I unexpectedly liked it.

Meg Cabot - the very same author of The Princess Diaries - has reflected through her story the daily thoughts of women and their opinions on anything, literally. The story, from beginning to end, was actually told through - get this - through a series of email messages, voice mails, journal pages, job memos, letters, receipts, and other random written statements exchanged along the course by the different characters. I was amused how the author has played a story so well without sticking to the traditional point-of-view manner of telling it. It was amazing - how she did that, I mean. Characters talk via email, text messages, chat boxes, and whatnot, but you actually catch the story. It might take time getting used to, yes, but sooner or later you'll get the hang of it.

And well, I wouldn't have applauded and praised her fantastic skills if it was just the execution of the storyline. There's more to that. The characters were all sooo well-defined and very carefully developed that you really distinguish who they are and their personalities by the way their dialogues were written. You could actually "hear" them utter the words. How genius is that?

The plot is ever so SIMPLE and STRAIGHT TO THE POINT but the author has made it interesting enough to hold the reader's attention. I may have to admit it isn't that exciting during the first part, but what the heck. I have reached the succeeding pages and couldn't put the freaking book down. It could've been the humorous lines that tickled the heart, I guess.

This book goes along with that chicklit list!

So ladies and damsels in distress, this might be especially written just for you. Meet the tough soulless lawyer who turns out to be the complete-utter-fool-of-a-woman's knight in shining armor. Feel like that girl to be rescued by this sarcastically sweet and good-looking man with that rescue complex you just couldn't resist. I may sound waaay overreacting now, but wait til you read the book and find out for yourself. :p
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Nov 01, 2010 Jessi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: part-of-a-series

Kate McKenzie thought she was lucky. She had a job and a boyfriend. But as the book opens, the boyfriend has informed her that he has no intention of marrying her, she has no place to live and her boss, the Tyrannical Office Depot (TOD), is making her terminate Ida Lopez, the beloved cook of the senior staff dining room.
Human Resources, the department in which Kate works, is bowing to the whims of Stuart Hertzog, one of the firm's lawyers, in firing Ida because he is dating the TOD. Now Ida is s...more

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Feb 15, 2011 Brittany rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Again, this was nothing more than fun fluff, and I didn't expect it to be anything more than that. It was fun because I assumed this story was completely unrelated to the last one (The Boy Next Door) since the main characters were not the same. But Kate works at the same newspaper as Mel from the last book, and there were a lot of the same characters, even Mel. They were just supporting characters this time. She also expanded so this book wasn't just email. There were journal entries, notes writ...more

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About Meg Cabot

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 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 flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby--writing novels--for emotional succor. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses.

She is now the author of nearly fifty books for both adults and teens, selling fifteen million copies worldwide, many of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, most notably The Princess Diaries series, which is currently being published in over 38 countries, and was made into two hit movies by Disney. In addition, Meg wrote the Mediator and 1-800-Where-R-You? series (on which the television series, Missing, was based), two All-American Girl books, Teen Idol, Avalon High, How to Be Popular, Pants on Fire, Jinx, a series of novels written entirely in email format (Boy Next Door, Boy Meets Girl, and Every Boy's Got One), a mystery series (Size 12 Is Not Fat/ Size 14 Is Not Fat Either/Big Boned), and a chick-lit series called Queen of Babble.

Meg is now writing a new children's series called Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls. Her new paranormal series, Abandon, debuts in Summer of 2011.

Meg currently divides her time between Key West, Indiana, and New York City with a primary cat (one-eyed Henrietta), various back-up cats, and her husband, who doesn't know he married a fire horse. Please don't tell him.

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“So Uncle Stuart is marrying that lady? Mom says she's going to be our aunt Amy. She's okay except she would't try any peanut butter M&M chocolate chip fudge cookies. They were good- you ate five, remember? But she said she was on a special diet, and couldn't eat something called carbs. We told her we didn't put any carbs in our cookies, just M&Ms, but she said M&Ms were carbs.
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