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Summary: Such a book
Review: From beginning to end, this book reminded me of the sytle Red Ink books are like (which is a compliment, because I'm part of that book club). The choppy language, brutal honesty, consistent humor, and entertaining characters make for great reading. I thought Kendall, the hotel phone operator, should've been fired in Chapter One, but then who would be the new disgruntled employee? I'm really shocked Betty, the neighbor from Hell, didn't get the Mortal Kombat fight I thought she deserved. Kirk reminds me of my temp agency recruiter.
Jack is my favorite character of all though. I wish the story was told from his perspective. The only weakness, which is a very HUGE weakness, is that I never get a clear scene of when Kendall and Jake broke up. I get hints all over the place, but Siplin replayed so many past scenes without replaying the most important one. For that reason alone, I can't give it the five stars it deserves.
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Summary: Good...
Review: From beginning to end, this book reminded me of the sytle Red Ink books are like (which is a compliment, because I'm part of that book club). The choppy language, brutal honesty, consistent humor, and entertaining characters make for great reading. I thought Kendall, the hotel phone operator, should've been fired in Chapter One, but then who would be the new disgruntled employee? I'm really shocked Betty, the neighbor from Hell, didn't get the Mortal Kombat fight I thought she deserved. Kirk reminds me of my temp agency recruiter.
Jack is my favorite character of all though. I wish the story was told from his perspective. The only weakness, which is a very HUGE weakness, is that I never get a clear scene of when Kendall and Jake broke up. I get hints all over the place, but Siplin replayed so many past scenes without replaying the most important one. For that reason alone, I can't give it the five stars it deserves.
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Summary: Such a book
Review: Karen Siplin's second novel is a witty and engaging modern 'Persuasion" with a multicultural cast and more depth and soul then most chicklit novels about relationships. The class conflicts between the chic clientele and the telephone operators behind the scenes of a fancy Manhattan hotel are priceliness and worth the price of admission alone. I found myself rooting for Kendall and her ex-boyfriend Jack and was pleased that a book with such a cynical realistic edge could also wind up so satisfying and romantic.
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Summary: delightful treatment of Jane Austen's PERSUASION
Review: Nine years ago at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Kendall Stark heeded the advice of her friends by ending her two year relationship with Jack Sullivan because everyone insisted he was a loser. Now, Kendall is a thirty-one year old single living in Brooklyn, working as a communications operator at a popular luxurious Manhattan hotel, and having a nowhere affair with a married man.Kendall feels contented until she sees Jack, owner of New England?s very successful Sullivan Brewery who is staying at the hotel. Kendall handles herself reasonably well during the encounter, but as he leaves his look back is filled with disappointment that shakes her to the core of her essence. Kendall realizes what she lost when she stopped being Sullivan?s Ken; she decides she must try to win back his love. However, Jack not only has to forgive, he wonders if she desires him because he is a success? As CLUELESS DID TO Jane Austen's EMMA, SUCH A GIRL provides the same delightful treatment to the author?s PERSUASION with Ken being Anne Elliot and Sullivan is retired naval officer Frederick Wentworth. The enjoyable second chance at love story line reflects a realistic social order that though the plot takes place in the twenty-first century could have easily been in the early 1800s. Sullivan is a wonderful protagonist as he wants his Ken back in his life, but doubts he can trust her with his heart. Ken regrets the error that shaped her life, but shows courage as she decides to prove she is his significant other forever. Together they make an intelligent and witty tale.
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Summary: Such A Girl
Review: Such a Girl is a reflectively told novel that will grasp the mind of any reader who has ever questioned the choices they have made and the path that they have followed to bring them to the place where they are today. Karen Siplin gives us the story of Kendall Stark, a phone operator at posh hotel with celebrity clientele. When one of the guests turns out to be the former boyfriend she dumped years before?with the approval of her friends, who thought that he was going nowhere fast and taking her along for the ride?it brings about a lot of questions for Kendall. Aside from the love that she is struggling not to still have for a now highly successful and engaged Jack Sullivan, Kendall now struggles with thoughts of her dead end job, her relationship with a co-worker who is a married man, her purpose in life and the choices she?s made to get there. She evaluates the ?unsuccessful? lives of herself and her friends as her ex comes back to gloat before the woman he never stopped loving and her judgmental friends. Siplin writes in blow-by-blow motion that makes no to attempt to create a world for the reader, but rather states things as-a-matter-of-factly and leaves the rest up to the reader?s imagination. Her talents are so great that she is able to do this and allow the words and motion to convey strong tensions and emotions between and within the characters. However, because of this writing style, some of the pivotal characters, namely Amy, Nick, and Gary, do not come off the page and tend to blend into one another or do not come across as uniquely as they possibly could. Such A Girl is a moderately paced thought provoking novel as well as a subtle love story. This minimal drama story is a great alternative read from a writer with a highly distinctive and enchanting voice in fiction Readincolor Reviewers
Cherlyn Michaels
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Summary: lisen to your heart
Review: This book is one of the best bok I have read this year.I think that every female from the age of 13-39 sould read this book.I bought this book on my to the capital trip, and let me tell you that as soon as you read the first sentence you will want to know more about characters of the story
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