- Il y a une éternité que je n'ai pas lu de Chick-lit, ou « livres pour filles » si vous préférez. Après quelques déceptions, j'ai fini par abandonner le style. Et puis l'occasion de redécouvrir le genre s'est présentée à moi avec ce livre. J'ai bien fait d'accepter !!
A quoi rêvent les filles ? est un livre chick-lit original, avec un soupçon de fantastique. J'avoue que je ne m'y attendais pas du tout, mais c'est vraiment une très bonne idée.

- Kira Franklin, 28 ans, est régisseuse dans un petit More...

Be careful what you wish for... you just might get it.

Kyra Franklin rubs a prop lamp and an actual genie appears. Kyra first asks for a better job, and gets one as stage manager for Landmark Theatre, a groundbreaking theatre in Minneapolis. I love reading about local places, even if the Landmark is not an actual theatre here.

Director Bill Pomeroy is producing a "gender-shifted, iron-bound, water-stained, flashlight-lit, hip-hop-supertitled, heartbreaking production of Shakespeare's classic love More...

Kira's life hasn't been going too well. She was left at the alter right around a year ago, she's put on an unhealthy amount of weight, and her job as a stage manager is tanking. When cleaning the prop room, she finds a magic lamp. A little rub - and out pops Teel, a genie! Turns out, Kira now has some wishes to make. First, she wishes for her dream job. Little does she know that the new producer is a tad insane. She continues making wishes and continues learning from her mistakes, becoming a mor More...

Kira Franklin was still recovering from her breakup. A whole year after the fact, and thirty extra pounds later, practically jobless and in need of a miracle, she unexpectedly got one in the shape of a genie. That’s right, a real rub-the-lamp genie named Teel. Kira’s troubles are over!

Or so she thinks. As it turns out, her wishes make her life anything but easier. She wishes for a new job that turns out to be a huge fiasco, and after wishing away her extra thirty pounds, her friends and family More...

Well, I've been excited about this book since I first read about back around April or May. I like Mindy Klasky, she writes light chick-lit with a hint of supernatural to it. Plus as an added bonus this book is about a stage manager, in theater, which is what I am. I've never read a book about someone that does what I do, so I was over the top excited, maybe that's what let me down. I mean I probably was hyper-sensitive because of how close I was to the main character, and let me tell you there w More...

I really liked this book, actually I would've given it 5 stars.
It's a nice twist to the classic stereotypical genie tail.
My edition of the book didn't have the last 2 chapters of the book because they had accidentally printed another book instead after page 304, so I had to go on Klasky's website to find them. (Apparently a lot of books had this little problem. Good thing I didn't buy it and got it from the library.)
However, the only, I repeat only, reason I'm giving it four stars is because the More...

A year later, Kira Franklin – still recovering from a break up, jobless and an extra thirty pounds heavier – is in desperate need of a miracle. One day, she gets that miracle in the shape of a genie. Now her troubles are over…or so she thinks. Her wishes end up making her life anything but easier. Every wish seems to just turn into a huge fiasco – like when she wished away her extra thirty pounds, her family and friends began to think she was anorexic.

How Not to Make a Wish sounded interesting w More...

Still recovering from a horrible breakup a year ago, Kira Franklin feels as if she is in need of a miracle. Sure she has gained an extra thirty pounds, still counts the days since the breakup occurred, and generally feels as if nothing in her life is working. But what do these facts matter when you unexpectedly discover a genie. From the moment Kira meets Teel, a real-life genie, she is sure that things are about to change... hopefully for the better.

How Not to Make a Wish on the surface seemed More...

I enjoyed Mindy's Jane Madison series, so jumped on this one (in e-book format because that's how I roll these days) pretty much as soon as it was released in October 2009. And then waited months to read it. Not only because I'd only just finished one of her series, but because this is the first book in a brand-new series, and volume 2 isn't ready yet. This is a change for me; I am almost never on top of brand new series; as with television, I come to them as they're finishing up.

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I have to say I was a little disappointed in this book. I loved Mindy Klasky's Witch series and had really high hopes for this book. Unfortunately, I found Kira whiny which made it very hard to get through the book and stay focused. The plot was also extremely predictable, although it was interesting to see how Kira handled the situations she got herself into. All and all not a terrible book but not the best of this author's work either.

A cute novel about what a woman will really wish for if given wishes from a genie in a lamp. It was fun to read through over several snow days! A few clever twists to the whole genie in a lamp...but I felt that the heroine wished for such underdeveloped wishes that it desensitized the storyline.

The question remains, if you were given the opportunity to wish for anything...would you wish for seemingly menial wants for the here and now or more long-lasting wishes for the future?

I've read the Jane Madison series and loved it, but I just couldn't identify with the protagonist of the As You Wish series. I'm going to check out the rest of it, but I was pretty disappointed. I just got annoyed with all the "I hate myself because I'm fat and alone" stuff, when she kept making the same mistakes. Anyway, an easy read and not the worst thing I've ever read, but definitely not my favorite.

Kira is a newly laid-off stage manager who needs to find a job immediately or she will be forced by her father to finally take the LSAT and apply for law school. While cleaning out stage props, she accidentally rubs a lamp and is granted wishes by Teek, a genie. As Kira picks her wishes, she finds that not everything she wishes for turns out as she would like.

This book had some real potential and was cute, but it felt superficial to me. I really disliked Kira as a character--her whininess and en More...

Rating: 2.9/5

I was more than excited when I heard of this book, but as I read it, I couldn't help but feel disappointed. The plot fell flat, and the characters didn't really reach out to me like I thought they would. It's been a month since I read this book so some things are a little fuzzy to remember. I'll refrain from doing my usual thoughts of the beginning, middle, and end of the book because I feel I can't do it justice (darn procrostination and school!). I'm not really sure how I feel abo More...

I was a little dissappointed that Mindy Klasky would go down this kind of road again after her adorable witch books. New subject please! Also, the book was a bit silly, but it was a nice quick read. I also got the feeling that people really into theater would appreciate some of the absurdities more than myself.

2.5 stars. Very disappointing - I really enjoyed the "Girls Guide to Witchcraft" series by Mindy Klasky but this one really fell flat. While the premise could have been fun - an unhappy young woman finds a genie in a bottle and gets to make some wishes - it was really predictable and the characters were all annoying.

Sassy and fun, this book describes the adventures of theater stage manager Kira Franklin when she finds a magic lamp and releases the genie from it. Her wishes change her life but the changes make her realize only she can change herself.

An engaging, sweet heroine and a good, interesting story.

OK, but hard to suspend disbelief. The first 2 wish attempt were world peace and ending world hunger; the next one was essentially ‘get me a new job’. The believability fell further, even for a wish-granting story. Decent dialog and pacing, but overall, it was just OK.

A hapless theater manager finds a magic lamp in the prop room and hijinks ensue. Set in Minneapolis, which is a change of venue for most chick-lit, and an OK portrait of theater life. However, the writing is mediocre and the fantasy elements of the plot are clunky.

What would you do if you found a genie? Kira finds out in this new series by Mindy Klasky. I don't know who will be the on-going character yet, but my bet is on Teel the genie. A good case of becareful what you wish for. I did find one thing annoying about this book, and that was her frequent use of (Read.......)as an expositive device. Got on my nerves after a while.

I stumbled on this after reading Fright Court and seeing the excerpt at the end of the Nook book. I read it it one sittings. Super cute and fun and the perfect Sunday afternoon curled up on the couch with a cup of tea read. (:

I definitely didn't enjoy this book as much as the Girl's Guide to Witchcraft series. The plot was loosely formed and moved along slowly. Despite this, the ending was good and it sounds as though there is hope for the next one in the series.

This book was a bummer. Like some of the other reviews, I love Mindy Klasky and was excited to find this. But, the characters were non-descript and whiny. Alot of the plot made no sense.

It's safe to say I'll be skipping the rest of this series.

Skip this book and wait for something else by her.

Could not get into this book. I tried really hard to give it my attention, but it was just difficult to read. There is nothing wrong with the writting, I just don't connect with the characters.

I was interested in the book's premise of a genie granting wishes; however, it was not appropriate reading material for me and I quit reading it.

I know this is supposed to be escapist fiction, but not sure how I feel about the main character making all the wrong choices continually, genie fixes everything, she learns nothing, yet gets a happy ending.

I loved and could really relate to the main character. However, I did not like the book as much as Mindy Klasky's Jane Madison series (which I devoured). On the other hand, I looking forward to starting the next book "When Good Wishes Go Bad" when it comes out in April.

This could have been a really fun read. I was excited to see how the Genie story line played out, but it never really did. The book focused on the play within the story more than the story itself, and the Genie was almost an after thought. I enjoyed the other stories by Mindy Klasky and I will continue to read her stories, but thjs one was a disappointment.

Eh, it was ok. One of those, "I started it so I feel the need to finish it but I'm not in love with it."
Slightly predictable, but a cute story