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Something Borrowed (Darcy & Rachel #1)
by Emily Giffin (Goodreads Author)
by Emily Giffin (Goodreads Author)
Leslie's review
bookshelves: dazzling-undertows, fiction, read-in-2011, i-am-a-chick, yuppie-romance
Jun 30, 11
bookshelves: dazzling-undertows, fiction, read-in-2011, i-am-a-chick, yuppie-romance
Read in June, 2011
A beach read recommended by Mom and read on an airplane. This book is like a rom com drawn out into 6 to 8 hours of reading. It is not just any rom com, but one focused on girls who want to drink the bleach when they are not married in a cul-de-sac at 29. In terms of my personal enjoyment, it was not as bad as Just Like Heaven and not as good as Working Girl. It is fun, if sort of problematic, but we knew we were slathering ourselves in a bath full of marshmallow fluff and not nutrient-rich earthen mud. Get over it!
Thought 1: Gal pals, if you secretly hate me as much as the "BFFs" in this book hate each other, then by all means, put me out to pasture and give me the Old Yeller treatment.
Thought 2: It is refreshing to see "the other woman" end up (SPOILER ALERT) on top, even if it necessitates making the non-other woman marginally more despicable than the other woman in order to keep readers from hurling the book into the fireplace.
Thought 3: In the world of YA lit and rom coms, there is an overabundance of girls who actually look like "J Crew models" (real quote!) who don't realize they possess an otherworldly beauty fit for the boat-strewn pages of a summer catalog. The result: a dream babe who is both preternatural and unsullied by self-confidence. Go team?
Thought 1: Gal pals, if you secretly hate me as much as the "BFFs" in this book hate each other, then by all means, put me out to pasture and give me the Old Yeller treatment.
Thought 2: It is refreshing to see "the other woman" end up (SPOILER ALERT) on top, even if it necessitates making the non-other woman marginally more despicable than the other woman in order to keep readers from hurling the book into the fireplace.
Thought 3: In the world of YA lit and rom coms, there is an overabundance of girls who actually look like "J Crew models" (real quote!) who don't realize they possess an otherworldly beauty fit for the boat-strewn pages of a summer catalog. The result: a dream babe who is both preternatural and unsullied by self-confidence. Go team?
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Uh, and Li? Re: Thought 1: uh, I have some bad news for you....