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Summary: LOVE IT
Review: I love it, Jane Green has offically done it. She has hit the point that every large woman wants and uses her imagination to express it. She gives a sort of light at the end of the tunnel for big women everywhere...Thank you
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Summary: Non stop entertainment!
Review: Jemima J. is a well written, thought provoking novel with a hilarity of content! The characters are all believeable and the story is written through Jemima's eyes. Basic content: She goes from fat girl, social reject to slim and trim with men adoring her wherever she went. The major plus for this one: the climatic unexpected twist with her romance and the blunt thoughts of the main character...a must read for a great chuckle!
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Summary: I think I laughed once...
Review: This book isn't even worth the time and effort that you're going to put into it. I think I finished it out of principal... It's completely unrealistic and anticlimactic. But if you're really into online relationships and crushes then yes... this book is defiantly for you.
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Summary: the worst book I have ever read...
Review: Before I start this review, let me polish off my plate of 10 bacon sandwiches and finish up my 4 milkshakes. Because, as we all know, the only reason people have weight problems is because they eat ENORMOUS quantities of food and are desperate, lazy, and pathetic. Or, so it goes, according to Jane "never been fat a day in her life" Green.As a woman of size (18, to be exact) I was extremely offended by this novel. It bares no resemblance to reality whatsoever. The idea that a person is overweight because they pig out 24/7 and could lose weight if they simply had a tiny bit of will power is insulting. Skip it, skip it, skip it!!
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Summary: It's really true
Review: Story anyone that has ever tried to lose weight can relate to. How unfair is it to be smart, well educated, but appear otherwise, and as a consequence, miss out on all the great guys and job advancement opportunities. Don't let excess weight hold you back as well. Let's all try to be Jemima's.
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Summary: Great chic lit -- Why all the bad press?!!
Review: I had a tough time putting this book down which is why I don't understand all the bad press! I thought it was absolutely delightful and left me with warm and fuzzy feelings. It's definitely cinderella-esque but in a much more modernized way. Jane Green keeps you on your toes -- she offers the best climaxes! She guides you through fate and how it can affect all of us. I just loved this book, almost more so than her other book, "Mr. Maybe." It's a quick read too so go and decide for yourself. Cheers!
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Summary: Vile Book
Review: I read this book for a book club and I have to say that it is such a vile book that it will be good to meet with others just so that I can say how horrible it is. I would have given it zero stars if that had been an option. All the characters are gorgeous, except for the ones Green wants sets up as pathetic: fat Jenny and little dick Charlie. Of course, some of the beautiful people are also 'bad,' but heck, they're still beautiful. Even Jemima who starts the books as obese and virtually friendless, finds respect and love once she loses a great deal of weight in an absurd period of time with no side affects of exercise obsession or anorexia, no plateaus and no occasional lapses. Who is the target audience for this book? Heavy women will not find this book comforting since most will identify with Jenny who while fat actually has found love (although Green needs to make that love sordid for some unfathomable reason) and does something with her life, unlike the useless Jemima who does nothing but exercise. She doesn't even make the deadlines for her column (the one she gets once she is thin and beautiful). Thin woman might find this book amusing in its toxic description of the less than perfect and its philosophy that you can lose 100 pounds in about 6 months if you just have the will power. Avoid this book and read 'Good in Bed' instead.
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Summary: If You're A Sucker For Romance....
Review: ...then this is the book for you! I definitely have to agree with "KO"...it's a light read and written in a very unique way! I thoroughly enjoyed it! Might be unrealistic, but then again, novels are escapism anyway, right? So, just throw sense of reality to the wind and just go with this book. It was definitely not a disappointment for me!
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Summary: Just ok
Review: I have expected more form best selling book and a good sense of humored English writer. Maybe I should not. Because the book is ok but it is not good enough. Jemima goes to Baywatch then we writer tries to give a message to reader. Why does she need to do that?
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Summary: Jemima J: elegent romance
Review: Jemima J has everything expected in a light-hearted romantic book; love, laughter and a suitable ending. Author Jane Green travels inside Jemima's head and lures the reader with her sensitivity and charm. Through out the book, Green jumps out of Jemima's thoughts and takes a look at her from an outsider's standpoint, an outsider who has a soft part in her heart for Jemima. With sentences like, "Jemima Jones is not having a good day"; the reader is reminiscent of the sympathetic thoughts that already exist for her. This same third person standpoint is used to cheer her on when she is having the time of her life.
Jemima is an overweight woman who works as a top tips columnist for the Kilburn Herald. With everything lacking in her life, Jemima thinks it's time for a change when she takes on the new name JJ and sparks an online romance with blonde California babe Brad. While, Brad thinks JJ's a fit gym babe from London, Jemima rapidly turns into exactly that in a matter of weeks when it's time for her and her hunk to meet. The twists and turns keep coming and coming with an unbelievable grand finale.
Written for anyone with a woman's tenderness and a young heart, Green gently guides the reader, with smooth straightforward writing, into the lives of the characters in the book. If you are thinking trashy romance novels, think again. In a class of its own, this books stands apart from the old romance novels, taking them from trashy to elegant.
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