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Grace Lisa Vandenburg loves numbers. From the number of letters in her name, the number of steps from home to the cafe, to the number of alfalfa sprouts in her salad sandwich. She treasures her cuisenaire rods (I had to google this) and a framed picture of Nikola Tesla, her hero, is on her bedside table.
The story begins when she met Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (also a 19 like Grace) at the grocery store. For the first time, numbers take the second slot after Seamus. In an effort to make this relation ...more
The story begins when she met Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (also a 19 like Grace) at the grocery store. For the first time, numbers take the second slot after Seamus. In an effort to make this relation ...more
A cute little bit of fluff. Protagonist, Grace, has OCD. Lots of cute ideas, but somehow it just never clicked. Seamus was just a little to perfect, the things that happened to Grace just a little too predictable.
I originally gave this book three stars but upon further reflection I am revising my review. 2 stars. The book is just not that interesting. It starts out okay but somewhere along the line I just really stopped caring. Thankfully it is a short book so by the time I lose my attention there is not much left to wade through.
There was a lot to this, for a light book. The obsessive compulsive stuff was interesting, and loved how she kept equating the heroine to Tessler. I've learnt that he was a creative inventor/genius, another numbers freak.
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Laughed out loud often at this sad/funny love story.
This was an incredibly hard book for me to get into. By the middle, I was much more interested in the characters and their love affair. I did enjoy the book and loved the ending! I also think I learned a lot about Nikola Tesla, even if it was something I never thought I needed to know before.
Grace is obsessed with numbers and routines. Is there any room in her life for the messiness of love?
This is a light read but I enjoyed it. It's funny in places, Seamus is an attractive character and it's nice to be reminded that there are odder people than oneself in the world :-) ...more
This is a light read but I enjoyed it. It's funny in places, Seamus is an attractive character and it's nice to be reminded that there are odder people than oneself in the world :-) ...more
This book was a little slow. All the counting drove me insane. I'm happy with how the book ended, but it just seemed to drag on at times and I didn't want to pick it up to read it.
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