false 6440874 2 <P><P><blockquote><p>A wicked comedy about the perils of making your dreams come true</p></blockquote><p>Quirky, clever, cubicle-bound Jennifer Johnson is desperate. Everyone around her is getting married, while she's still single and stuck writing ad copy about men's dress socks.</p><p>Her life hits crisis level, launching her into a humiliating and painfully hilarious quest to find Prince Charming at any cost. This includes agonizing online dates, diet-clinic cults, drag-queen fights, and a debilitating addiction to Cinnabon icing. When she meets handsome, wealthy Brad Keller, she wonders if he's the answer to all her dreams, or is he just too good to be true? </p><p>Jennifer's quest to land this Minneapolis Prince Charming is ridiculously quixotic, until she does land him. That's when the book moves out of its chick lit conventions and into wonderfully interesting territory.</p><p>McElhatton does a great job yanking readers around for the rest of the novel. The second half of the book fulfills the ominous tone of the cover and offers the best laugh-out loud moments, two of which involve feminine hygiene and a drag queen named Janet Reno.</p><p>But the end is where the real magic happens. After reading it, it's just not fair to define this book as "chick lit" unless you're comfortable calling "The Graduate" a "romantic comedy."</p><p>Like she did in "Pretty Little Mistakes," McElhatton is playing on form. This new book evokes chick lit, but it's really a darker, more interesting advancement of it.</p><p>Jennifer Johnson typifies a generation of single young women still stuck on an escapist fantasy, even as they've been given all the tools and opportunities to live a dream life without it. This novel, written under the rules of a fairy tale genre, brutally succeeds in showing us that the fairy tale doesn't even look good on paper anymore.</p> <p>Darkly funny and outrageously honest, McElhatton's wit shines in this no-holds-barred cautionary tale about getting what you want—and how it can be the worst thing for you.</p> 6630799 25 4 2009 Jennifer Johnson Is Sick of Being Single total:184|5:34|4:46|3:53|2:28|1:23| 184 592 323 74 5 2 false false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 14:18:43 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 20:04:08 -0700 2009 1
The review had set it up for me incorrectly though. It wasn’t that her tone changed towards the end, in fact it stayed...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 12:15:32 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 12:15:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat May 09 16:33:33 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 16:36:08 -0700 2009
It's a wicked comedy about the perils of making your dreams come true

Quirky, clever, cubicle-bound Jennifer Johnson is desperate. Everyone around her is getting marr...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 18:33:28 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 18:35:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Sep 23 09:34:34 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 09:39:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 12:17:46 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 12:48:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 14:01:21 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 19:08:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 12:35:34 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 12:39:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 true false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 07:27:44 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 20:55:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 18:54:03 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 19:01:03 -0700 2009 The character was one dimensional and cutely d...more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 09:26:25 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 09:26:25 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 true false Mon Jun 29 11:46:08 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 11:57:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 11:47:25 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 15:48:40 -0700 2009
I enjoy talking to snarky women.

Sometimes I get insecure about my body.

All three reasons are why I loved, loved, loved, “Jennifer Johnson is sick of being single.”

Heather McElhatton, the warped mind who wrote “Pretty Little Mi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 04:29:48 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 16:43:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 10:37:31 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 21:01:28 -0700 2009 Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Single takes place in my hometown. How often do you come across a smart, sassy chick-lit piece with a cast...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 13:51:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 14:35:32 -0700 2009
The no...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 18:47:48 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 18:53:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 21:35:33 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 21:48:14 -0700 2009 I did like the fact that the author didn't make it a...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jun 21 12:38:41 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 12:40:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 13:25:59 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 13:28:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6440874