Pretty Is As Pretty Does: A Novel
3 journalers for this copy...
Taken from a bookswap shelf in Neptune, NJ
Released on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at about 10:00:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Mailed to a fellow Bookcrosser in n/a, n/a Controlled Releases.
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For a OBCZ somewhere out there...
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For a OBCZ somewhere out there...
Another Greyflank contribution to the CurvyZoneOBCZ. Thanks, Greyflank! This looks like it should be popular on our shelves :)
(it might be waylaid by Antof9 before making it to our bookshelves)
(it might be waylaid by Antof9 before making it to our bookshelves)
I took this with me on a business trip last week -- good thing, too, as I finished a book and and 1/2, on Friday, just during travel!
Unfortunately, the only reason I finished this one is because it was the only other one I had with me on the plane, and I had read too much to stop once I got home. . . .
The reason it looked so interesting to me were numerous quotes on the cover. From the front: Funny . . . imaginative and high-spirited. (The Denver Post), and from the back cover: Lucy Fooshee is one of the funniest, most exasperating characters to come along in years. You'll love her, you'll hate her, you may want to slap her, but you won't be able to look away. (Jennifer Weiner, author) and also Wildly entertaining. (Booklist)
This book wasn't wildly entertaining at all. It definitely wasn't funny, and it wasn't high-spirited. It was the sad story of a small-town girl who is trapped in the kind of marriage that all small-town girls have, unless they leave the small town. So she has an affair with a guy who isn't "fully white". I'm not sure how that's wildly entertaining. And this was just depressing.
In terms of the writing, the author did a great job of describing the people and place -- it was definitely believable and you could see and hear it in your mind's eye. The language was great, from that perspective. However, people being "prejudice" (instead of prejudicED) and "ice tea" (instead of icED tea) bothered me.
It didd pass the time, but that was about it. I hope it finds a happy home on the OBCZ shelves, where I will take it the next time I work out.
Greyflank -- thanks again for the cross-pollination of the OBCZs!
Unfortunately, the only reason I finished this one is because it was the only other one I had with me on the plane, and I had read too much to stop once I got home. . . .
The reason it looked so interesting to me were numerous quotes on the cover. From the front: Funny . . . imaginative and high-spirited. (The Denver Post), and from the back cover: Lucy Fooshee is one of the funniest, most exasperating characters to come along in years. You'll love her, you'll hate her, you may want to slap her, but you won't be able to look away. (Jennifer Weiner, author) and also Wildly entertaining. (Booklist)
This book wasn't wildly entertaining at all. It definitely wasn't funny, and it wasn't high-spirited. It was the sad story of a small-town girl who is trapped in the kind of marriage that all small-town girls have, unless they leave the small town. So she has an affair with a guy who isn't "fully white". I'm not sure how that's wildly entertaining. And this was just depressing.
In terms of the writing, the author did a great job of describing the people and place -- it was definitely believable and you could see and hear it in your mind's eye. The language was great, from that perspective. However, people being "prejudice" (instead of prejudicED) and "ice tea" (instead of icED tea) bothered me.
It didd pass the time, but that was about it. I hope it finds a happy home on the OBCZ shelves, where I will take it the next time I work out.
Greyflank -- thanks again for the cross-pollination of the OBCZs!
Caught to put back on the shelves.
Journal Entry 6 by CurvyZoneOBCZ at Curves For Women - Hampden/Wadsworth in Lakewood, Colorado USA on Friday, March 18, 2005
Released 19 yrs ago (3/18/2005 UTC) at Curves For Women - Hampden/Wadsworth in Lakewood, Colorado USA
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Left on the OBCZ shelf. Yes, it's been a long time since I worked out!
Left on the OBCZ shelf. Yes, it's been a long time since I worked out!