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Love Ledgers: Confessions of a Plain Jane Accountant
In this entertaining chic-lit confessional, Connie Lukey chronicles a year in the life of a young Canadian woman determined to find love and happiness by her 40th birthday.Jane Parker has just turned 39. Smart and practical, she surrenders an intended fashion career to become a CPA, because no one's ever hear of "a starving accountant." She's a proud independent woman of the 90's, but with a ticking biological clock, she feels she'll somehow always be Jane, "The One Who Never Got Married."Then, a self-help book from her younger, married sister about finding your soulmate suddenly puts Jane on a mission. With the help of family, friends, co-workers and her dachshund "Wanker," Lukey's fictional heroine navigates the dating minefields.An engaging entry into a popular literary genre, Love Ledgers is reminiscent of Bridget Jones Diary, and Sex and the City. Believable and spirited, Lukey's novel delivers an enjoyable read. - BlueInk Review.Lukey excels at environmental descriptions and scene setting.....her dialogue is consistently funny. - Kirkus Reviews
450 pages, Paperback
Published October 4, 2017
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February 16, 2018
I received a copy from the author via Amazon; this is my honest review.
-It's supposed to be a women's fiction but it was more drama than anything else and absolutely no amusing parts either.
-Grief #1: The sister is a brat and self-centered. Her parents/sister needed to bring the whole dinner assortment at her place so her husband wouldn't miss Christmas??? Her kids are brats too. Who lets a child choose lobster on a menu?
-Grief #2: Jane thinks she turned over every rock in Owen Sound. No! She went to the same bar, night after night, and to the same shelter every Friday night, with no luck whatsoever. What kind of man do you think you'll pick up at a bar? The ones you did pick up.
-Grief #3: Repetitive situations or sentences told every other way possible. "The insurance agent said I would not be covered" repeated verbatim at least twice. The paperwork's journey through the office is explained at least twice in great details with tidbits here and there.
-The book could have been half the size it is now and still made sense.
-I love the cameos from the past (music, people, events, etc.).
-To me the book was not boring; it's repetitive that's all, which could make it boring to some. I'm a retired Canadian Internal Auditor. I also did some accounting. I loved my work. I wanted to be one since I was twelve, going against the distressed sighs from my parents (not the accounting part, just the IA part).
-It's supposed to be a women's fiction but it was more drama than anything else and absolutely no amusing parts either.
-Grief #1: The sister is a brat and self-centered. Her parents/sister needed to bring the whole dinner assortment at her place so her husband wouldn't miss Christmas??? Her kids are brats too. Who lets a child choose lobster on a menu?
-Grief #2: Jane thinks she turned over every rock in Owen Sound. No! She went to the same bar, night after night, and to the same shelter every Friday night, with no luck whatsoever. What kind of man do you think you'll pick up at a bar? The ones you did pick up.
-Grief #3: Repetitive situations or sentences told every other way possible. "The insurance agent said I would not be covered" repeated verbatim at least twice. The paperwork's journey through the office is explained at least twice in great details with tidbits here and there.
-The book could have been half the size it is now and still made sense.
-I love the cameos from the past (music, people, events, etc.).
-To me the book was not boring; it's repetitive that's all, which could make it boring to some. I'm a retired Canadian Internal Auditor. I also did some accounting. I loved my work. I wanted to be one since I was twelve, going against the distressed sighs from my parents (not the accounting part, just the IA part).
February 11, 2018
This is the closest to a spoiler.
Our overworked tax accountant is flummoxed by an item that the client wants to use as a medical expense and she checks with one of the partners: The rules on therapies vary from province to province. Family and marriage therapist are deductible in BC, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Ontario, but sexologists are allowable as a medical expense only in Quebec. What shall I tell the client? Tell him to move to Quebec.
This is her last year as a thirty something and she wants Mr. Right and some kids of her own, her Dachshund, Wanker, just isn't enough. To this great angst, add in plumbing problems in her first house, 12+ hour days from Christmas through April 30 with no days off, one witch of a coworker taking maternity leave and a really nice one out while doing chemo, and some really painful relationship histories, and you this exceptional book. You'll want to smack people upside the head, cry at the sad parts, and laugh yourself silly the rest of the time!
All I can say is ENJOY !
I requested and received a free review copy courtesy of Reading Deals.
Our overworked tax accountant is flummoxed by an item that the client wants to use as a medical expense and she checks with one of the partners: The rules on therapies vary from province to province. Family and marriage therapist are deductible in BC, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Ontario, but sexologists are allowable as a medical expense only in Quebec. What shall I tell the client? Tell him to move to Quebec.
This is her last year as a thirty something and she wants Mr. Right and some kids of her own, her Dachshund, Wanker, just isn't enough. To this great angst, add in plumbing problems in her first house, 12+ hour days from Christmas through April 30 with no days off, one witch of a coworker taking maternity leave and a really nice one out while doing chemo, and some really painful relationship histories, and you this exceptional book. You'll want to smack people upside the head, cry at the sad parts, and laugh yourself silly the rest of the time!
All I can say is ENJOY !
I requested and received a free review copy courtesy of Reading Deals.
February 24, 2018
"You Are Always Loved If You Have A Dachshund"
This story is a rather slow read. It embraces one year in the life of a young Canadian woman trying to find love and happiness before reaching age 40, and she doesn't have much success. Jane Parker, now just turning age 39, is smart and practical, but her biological clock is ticking. She turns to the pages of a self-help book about finding her soulmate. That doesn't help her either. All her family, friends, and even her loving dachshund "Wanker," offer help. Yup, you sure have a long story to pass time reading on a lonely evening. This story just didn't excite me... frankly, I became bored.
This story is a rather slow read. It embraces one year in the life of a young Canadian woman trying to find love and happiness before reaching age 40, and she doesn't have much success. Jane Parker, now just turning age 39, is smart and practical, but her biological clock is ticking. She turns to the pages of a self-help book about finding her soulmate. That doesn't help her either. All her family, friends, and even her loving dachshund "Wanker," offer help. Yup, you sure have a long story to pass time reading on a lonely evening. This story just didn't excite me... frankly, I became bored.
June 23, 2020
If you liked the movie "Always a Bridesmaid" written by Yvette Nicole Brown, you'll like this book. Dry humor abounds in the pages that tell the story of our heroine desperately trying to find a husband before she turns 40. What she finds instead is her happiness. And isn't that what she really wanted all along?
January 22, 2019
This was loaned to me by a dear friend, so not something I would have chosen for myself. With the setting in my hometown it was charming in that respect but not much meat on this bone.
February 20, 2020
Entertaining with enjoyable tongue-in-cheek humour.
February 5, 2018
The story is about an Accountant, which I wasn't sure was a good thing being that I'm an Accountant and we are overworked and underpaid; The book very much exemplified this and while I enjoyed understanding a lot about the main character it also made it ordinary and predictable to me. I was confused by attitudes of the single women in the book being so desperate to get married and have kids, but I reminded my self that the book was set in last 90s and in Canada so maybe why so different than single woman that I know. At first I thought the story was supposed to be comedy although not funny to me; but then lots of serious things happened throughout the book that did stir emotion and I felt more like the story was a drama. I did enjoy the humor in parts of the book and really like the dog Wanker and I think he is Jane's soulmate she doesn't need a man to be complete her.
January 11, 2018
A 39 yr old single woman works as an accountant desperate to find a man who wants babies, before turning 40. Her teenage and university years in the 80s but present day is the year 2000. She details all the men she
meets and dates in this one year while explaining her past doomed relationships. Altogether very amusing in a Bridget Jones-lite sort of way. At times I really wanted to give her a shake, sometimes she was just cluelss. It has an unexpected twist at the end which produces an epiphany of sorts for her☺ Realistically I'd rate this book a 3 for the writing, it's not great literature, but entertaining. As to enjoyment level personally, I rate this a 5 ... I loved it ... such a relatable and humorous book because of Jane's upbringing in Owen Sound, university and Toronto years, etc.
meets and dates in this one year while explaining her past doomed relationships. Altogether very amusing in a Bridget Jones-lite sort of way. At times I really wanted to give her a shake, sometimes she was just cluelss. It has an unexpected twist at the end which produces an epiphany of sorts for her☺ Realistically I'd rate this book a 3 for the writing, it's not great literature, but entertaining. As to enjoyment level personally, I rate this a 5 ... I loved it ... such a relatable and humorous book because of Jane's upbringing in Owen Sound, university and Toronto years, etc.
December 22, 2017
An entertaining read!!!! Ms Lukey uses witty dialogue and excellent descriptions to draw you into Jane's life
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