One Day in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Mar 21, 2011 Ann rated it liked it

Part of me loved this book and wanted to give 4 stars...another part of me hated it and wanted to give 2 stars. I settled for 3. This is the story of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew's up and down (though mostly down) relationship over the course of many years, told only in snapshots of a single day each year - July 15th (St. Swithin's Day). A very clever format. So much of the story occurs in what is unsaid and the reader is left to fill in the blanks. More substantial than chick lit, but dealing ...more

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Jul 27, 2011 Ashley rated it really liked it

I am a dedicated 'readit1st' person. So I had to read this before seeing the movie.

I am really glad I read it, have yet to see the movie but there is so much to this story that I cant imagine the movie doing it justice! The story takes place on one day of the year during a span of time between the late 1980's and 2005ish and the lives of two people on that day. Of course their lives intertwine in different ways from friends to lovers and one night stands. The story is ultimately a romance but i ...more

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Mar 03, 2012 Janie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: across-the-pond

It was fine for what it was. Like I mentioned earlier, Nicholls' writing was clever as was the one-day snapshot premise. The trips around England/Scotland of the last two decades (and a half) was particularly lovely and I ultimately really liked Emma. So it was fine.

However, throwing Hardy quotes all over the place doesn't magically turn one into Hardy. It was predictable, as romances are. Unfortunately this plot was a little too Nicholas Sparks and not enough Nick Hornby.

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