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Confessions of an Ex-Girlfriend
by
Lynda Curnyn
Ex-girlfriend Emma Carter has a lot on her mind. Her boyfriend got a life -- in L.A. Her hairdresser found God. And that extra 10 pounds of "relationship flab" she acquired while falling in love with a commitmentphobe has just put her out of the running for a new romance -- or so she thinks. But before Emma can get on with her life, she's got to face a few startling truths...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
August 16th 2002
by Harlequin Books
(first published January 1st 2002)
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I don't even remember where I picked this book up. I think it was in a basement or someone was going to recycle it and I saved it, thinking it would be a good pick me up read between all the philosophy my freshman year of college. I never read it in college. Six years later, I rediscovered it. I was right, it would have been a good pick me up read.
Unfortunately my copy is missing three pages - the three pages that constitute the only sex scene in the book. I can't vouch for that part of it.
The...more
Unfortunately my copy is missing three pages - the three pages that constitute the only sex scene in the book. I can't vouch for that part of it.
The...more
Like all these chick lit books, Emma is the single woman living in the fast-paced city, trying to find love -- but all in the wrong places. Especially when she falls for a guy who has made it clear that he was waiting for his big break, a break that moved him across the country, leaving her behind as the Ex-Girlfriend.
Notes: This book didn't draw me in, so I took a long time reading it (also, a detour when I read Harry Potter once again after watching the third installment in the theaters). Alth...more
Notes: This book didn't draw me in, so I took a long time reading it (also, a detour when I read Harry Potter once again after watching the third installment in the theaters). Alth...more
This is a random chick lit book, where the main woman spends the most of the book pining after her ex boyfriend. They were together for 2 years and he always said he'd leave her and move to LA if his screenplay sold, and it did, and he did. It's weird, because their whole relationship seems so shallow and like they'd been together a month, not 2 years. Anyway, she's also a writer, but writing for a wedding magazine, and she whines about the career front as well. I did like her 2 friends better t...more
We all can relate to the main character. Nearly everyone of us has at one point or another suffered a break-up. I absolutely LOVE chick lit novels but this one was just Mediocre for me. I neither loved it nor hated it.
Chick Lit novels are usually brainless reads so I was expecting that much from it, but this book lacked any additional substance. It was a light, breezy read but left nothing to remember it by. This is a book I would recommend for a break after reading an intense thriller or myste...more
Chick Lit novels are usually brainless reads so I was expecting that much from it, but this book lacked any additional substance. It was a light, breezy read but left nothing to remember it by. This is a book I would recommend for a break after reading an intense thriller or myste...more
Emma's comfortable relationship is over when her boyfriend moves to California for a job. This would be difficult for any person to go through. The beginning of the book focuses on this concept for a great deal of time. It has many of the stereotypical scenarios for a single girl going through this. I kept expecting something much more interesting to occur but it never really got there.
This book wasn't terrible. But it wasn't great either. It was really very, very neutral. I didn't find myself sympathizing with the main character for her break up, nor did I think that she was whining too much. But I really don't see the point in reading something about someone else's break up. Maybe it's a good book to read when you've just suffered a break up yourself. I admit that I picked this book partly just because of the title and didn't really read on what it was about when I did, but...more
Emma is an early 30s bridal magazine writer who has the worst luck and the hardest time recovering from a break-up. In her time of despair she has 2 wonderful best friends on the opposite ends of the love spectrum: Alyssa who's always in love's good graces, and Jade who loves to lust. Meanwhile her mother has fallen in love, and asked Emma to help plan her wedding. These circumstances take Emma through shock, surrealism,heartache, and really ironically funny circumstances.She learns a lot about...more
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Not so bad.Idenya simpel,tapi bisa dijabarkan dengan panjang lebar tanpa membosankan. Khas chicklit.
Horrible, with an extremely unlikeable main character.
Fun and entertaining, good summer beach read.
So true of dating trials and tribulations
fluffy read. a little too mindless for my taste.
At first I wasn't too sure I liked this book. The character is very likable except for the fact that she is a total wreck after a recent breakup with her boyfriend. About 1/3 through I put it down and started to read something else, but then I gave it another shot and I realized I was looking at it all wrong...or rather that was the point of the book. The reader isn't really suppose to like the "wrecked Emma" who can't seem to find her self esteem except through having a man in her life.
I actually am finding this book to be way under-educational. Like mind numbing. I'm trying to get through it, but it's hard. The main character, Emma, seems really weak. She keeps basing her life's worth on the opinion of others and her self worth on pointless comparisons of herself to others, and of course, everyone else is in a better place. I'm about half way through it and I really hope she grows some balls soon or else I'm putting it away.
The thing that intrigued me the most about this book was that the main character had my name and her ex-boyfriend was the name of my at-the-time boyfriend. The book had potential (I liked the way Curnyn sporatically wove in her "confessions" throughout the text) but for the most part it fell short. Her "confessions" end up being more like random thoughts, than confessions, and in the end I will pass it off as a girly-book.
This book was fabulous. Following the break up of a two year relationship, it bares all in learning to cope and overcome. The confessions are fantastically realistic and yet funny. I could not put it down. I laughed a lot and have already passed the book on to a close friend!
This book was a slow read, but an enjoyable read of girl who's dealing with her boyfriend of 2 years. Many times I found myself nodding because I knew exactly how she felt. My only problem with the book is that it was so slow.
Alissa hated it......I don't think she could finish it. I liked the fact that I could read it and turn my brain off. It was funny, I laughed outloud a few times. Good weekend read.
More disappointing than I had anticipated. The characters were pretty much archetypes. There aren't a lot of memorable aspects of this book.
Starts out crap, ends on a decent tone. The crap beginning lasts for a loooong time though...like the first 3/4 of the book.
I remember reading this - but not sure if I remember the plot. I know I finished it, which meant it kept my attention.
This book was just sooooooooo riveting that days after I finished it, I couldn't remember if I read it or not...
I happened to stumble on this book on the clearance table at the book store. Fun read...
Slightly unique format, but not as captivating as other (very) similar beach reads.
not my type of book was glad when it was over but over all ok
Formulaic chick lit that I can't actually remember
Funny. Any girl who's been dumped can relate to.
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Lynda Curnyn is a native New Yorker who hasn't migrated very far from her Brooklyn birthplace. She grew up on Long Island and has since made Manhattan her home.
After getting a liberal arts degree from New College at Hofstra University, she went on to New York University for her master's degree in English Literature, even contemplated a Ph.D until she realized she didn't want to spend her 20s in th...more
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After getting a liberal arts degree from New College at Hofstra University, she went on to New York University for her master's degree in English Literature, even contemplated a Ph.D until she realized she didn't want to spend her 20s in th...more
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