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Summary: I loved this book
Review: It is a great story, you live vicariously through Jemima J and there is a unique surprise twist at the end. I couldn't put it down and all my friends want to read it now.
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Summary: I absolutely loved this!!! A TRUE delight!! :)
Review: A friend of mine loaned me Jemima J, and she insisted that I wouldn't be able to put it down once I started. She was right! I found any excuse to read it--- before bed, in waiting rooms, even at red lights. :) Jemima J is a fairy-tale story that while somewhat unrealistic, is extremely uplifting and hopeful. The message of "Jemima J" is one of self-love, truth, and finding joy. So often, we buy into the horrible belief that any kind of superficial success (i.e. beauty, money, being thin, etc.) will bring us the happiness and confidence we seek. "Jemima J" makes it clear that such "achievements" can never bring us true, lasting, and genuine joy; only acceptance of yourself, unconditional love, and a life of truth and purpose can do this. I once read a review criticizing this book as "a woman finding happiness by turning into an anorexic." In my opinion, nothing could be farther from the truth. To the contrary, "Jemima J" expresses a woman's journey that redefines her original definition of beauty. I am a recovering from a long-term struggle with anorexia and bulimia, and I am far too familiar with self-hatred and the desire to lose weight for the wrong reasons. I found this book to be empowering and hopeful. It is very easy to identify with Jemima as she goes down the deceptive path of superficial success & beauty, only to discover that she was looking to the wrong source for happiness, confidence, and self-acceptance. I absolutely loved this book, and I honestly found it to be inspiring and profound while hysterical and endearing. I guarantee that you will fall in love and identify with Jemima on her journey to happiness. It left me with a feeling of clarity, confidence, and hope. :) If you're looking for a "light" book that isn't "fluff", I would unquestionably recommend "Jemima J"!!
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Summary: This book was good, why are people so skeptical?
Review: I loved this book! It made me cry, laugh hysterically until my family looked at me like I was deranged, and gave me goosebumps at times. I think for a book to be able to do all that, its pretty darn good. The only thing that bothered me about the whole book was that it went on and on about how terribly huge Jemima was, and she only weighed 217 at her highest, thats not very heavy at all! I'd love to weigh 217. Other than that I thought this book was great. It made me want to go out and exercise....and find my Ben. (For the record, I have never in my life wanted to exercise) Every fat girl in the world should read this book, its a good laugh, and a good cry, all wrapped into one!
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Summary: Beware of fat stereotypes
Review: I grabbed this book because the main character was fat. What I was hoping for was a strong character, what I got was one that gives into the image-oriented society and starves herself and exercises until she is acceptable. Green does an excellent job at introducing us to life through the eyes of a fat woman. The invisibilty, the shame and the frustration are real things. But where she fails is by holding up every stereotype about fat people - everyone who is fat could be thin if they would just eat less and exercise, that women stay fat because it is a protective barrier, and only when they are thin can they ever be happy. How long is this type of thinking going to prevail? People come in all shapes, all sizes. So does that mean that all but the 5% who have perfect bodies are unhappy? That seems to be the lesson here. The message here is be thin and you'll find love, the best job and happiness. So I guess I must be miserable, because even though I have love, my own business, friends and good health, I am fat - fatter than Jemima could even envision. Sadly, these things detracted from my enjoyment of what was otherwise a well crafted, intriguing tale with lots of insights and good character development.
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Summary: Modern Fairytale
Review: I practically know this book off by heart I have read it so many times. It is so funny, romantic and complete escapism. I do feel slightly uneasy about the message of the book (and as my mother pointed out, where are all these really beautiful people anyway?)However it doesn't matter, its just a book and I love it. And as for the debate about whether Ben liked Jemima only because she became beautiful, well probably, but hey, that is why she liked him. At least at first, then they fell in love and that part is just like real life.
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Summary: Relaxing, funny, hilarious
Review: I have completely enjoyed myself with my nose deep buried in Jemima J this week-end. Having loved Bridget Jones and several other books in the same cathegory I though that all new attemps to write about single women searching for love and beauty had to be another Bridget Jones copy. But I was wrong. Jemima J is not at all a copy, but her own self, completely capable to stand on her own feet. Jemima is fat and unhappy, no lovers, no promotion at work, nothing happening in her life. Untill the day she is sent to an internet course and get a totally new interest - internet, the world wide web. Jane Green writes an incredible funny story, but also a story with an important undertone. Why do people see Jemima, why is she happy, what are the values of her life? And the end is a surprisingly one, though how could it have ended another way? Though the story is a funny one it also make you think of the values you set for your own life. I look forward to read more from Jane Green's pen.
Britt Arnhild Lindland
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Summary: A Great Light Read...
Review: I found myself really enjoying this book. The main character, Jemima, is both depressing, yet inspiring. I found myself entrenched in her life, making it difficult for me to put the book down. It is a very light read, and teaches us how we all can transform ourselves into what we want to become. I would definitely recommend this book to a person who is looking for a light, entertaining read.
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Summary: The potential was here.
Review: This story starts out well enough but breaks down in the middle. It's rolling right along with the lives of Jemima and Ben with the author letting you get inside of their heads and up pops Brad and Jenny. This is when the story totally broke down for me. I can understand Jemima having to come to terms with how she wants to live her life but this was a little over the top. By the time the author works through this she has only a few pages to wrap up the life of the heroine and add a one page epilogue. Disappointing to say the least. Jemima, I would have liked to have known a little more about your "happily ever after life."
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Summary: For the beach, this is a fun read
Review: I wanted to find out what happenned to jemima j and so I finished it. This is a shallow fun read. Read it if you are looking for a funny, completely mindless read. I think that Jemima J was fun but a bit long.
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Summary: Insulting to women of all sizes
Review: Having read other Jane Green novels, I expected Jemima J to be fun and witty with a relatively likeable (or at least tolerable) heroine. I did not, however, expect to be insulted and disgusted by a work of incredibly superficial trash. Jemima J, the story's fat (though, at 5'7" and 217 pounds, she is hardly the morbidly obese freak-show member Green makes her out to be) and annoyingly neurotic heroine loses a huge amount of weight in an unhealthy amount of time. She finds that her life becomes like a perfect fairy tale once she gets thin. This novel perpetuates the unfortunate idea that appearance and thinness are the most important things in the world. Women of all shapes and sizes (and men too, for that matter) should be extremely offended by this novel. The very suggestion that a person could or should lose 100 pounds in 3 months is insane, and the suggestion that instant happiness comes after weight loss is absurd. To add insult to injury, Green appears to dislike Americans, portraying her American characters as dense, incapable of understanding humor, specious, and superficial. Well, this American is far too intelligent to be drawn in by Green's ridiculous ideas, unrealistic plot, and vacant writing style.
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