Purchased for 99 cents at the Thrift Center in San Carlos, CA on May 25th, 2005.

This was a fairly entertaining read. The story was pretty good but some parts were soooo dated, like their complete infamiliarity with the Internet. Also, I thought it was funny that she described people in L.A. wearing thong leotards while excercising. No one was doing that in LA in 1999 and no one would now...LOL.

Anyway, this is off to snowy652.

Finally put in the mail today - so sorry for the delay! I hope you will eventually forgive me, hehe.

book arrived safe and sound - nothing to forgive *smile* -- I will comment on it once I have read it and then pass it on to a new reader.

Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima finds that her only consolation is food. Add to this her passion for her charming, sexy, and unobtainable colleague Ben, and Jemima knows her life is in need of a serious change. When she meets Brad, an eligible California hunk, over the Internet, she has the perfect opportunity to reinvent herself -- as JJ, the slim, beautiful, gym-obsessed glamour girl. But when her long-distance Romeo demands that they meet, she must conquer her food addiction to become the bone-thin model of her e-mails -- no small feat.

With a fast-paced plot that never quits and a surprise ending no reader will see coming, Jemima J is the chronicle of one woman's quest to become the woman she's always wanted to be, learning along the way a host of lessons about attraction, addiction, the meaning of true love, and, ultimately, who she really is.


***Even though the book was a bit outdated (the whole not knowing about the internet) -- I loved ~ loved ~ loved this book. I could totally relate to JJ and my heart went out to her through-out the entire book. I was so engrossed in this book that it kept me awake till 5 am one night as I wanted to read it until the end. The ending seemed to drag a bit but that could be due to me being tired more than the book itself.

RELEASE NOTES:

for my mom to read and release as she sees fit

got from my daughter

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