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one of my favorite chick lit.

This book was a great read! I was a little leery at first, I have never stepped outside of my genre of horror when it came to reading anything else. I picked up this book when I was going through some weight issues and couldn't put it down. It is full of laughs as a Jemima, an overweight woman in London, decides she wants to meet a man. She doesn't think she will ever find anyone who can actually see what she looks like so she decides to go on the newly discovered internet. She, along with two co-workers, signs up for a dating service as a prank (for the co-workers anyway) and meets a man in the states. She ends up sending him a picture of herself that is a little deceiving and when he tells her he wants to ACTUALLY meet her....well it ends up being an all out war with her body to try to find a way to look just like the deceiving picture! This is a great read for anyone but especially great for those of us who have weight issues and think there is no way we can lose the weight! Jane Green is wonderfully funny! Read Jemima J, it is definetly worth it!

This book was well written and kept my interest that I couldn't put it down. I was also confused with the switching of the narration because I had no idea who was talking at that point. It was an outsider looking in to foreshadow what will happen soon (not that the reader couldn't already figure it out because it was a predictable story).

The story is about an overweight British girl, Jemima Jones who is completely obsessed with the way she looks. She thinks that no one likes her because she is so overweight and no man could take a romantic interest in her. I felt like yelling at the book saying, "You know Jemima, there is more to a person than just looks!" The book made everyone in the world seem shallow and that men and women only like others because they are thin, gorgeous and are healthy.

This is why I had some problems with the way the material was presented in the book. I felt sorry for Jemima, living with two roommates who were nice to her face but rude to her behind her back. When she met someone (a man), they always had an ulterior motive for 'getting the guy.' That part could be one of the realistic points of the book.

I felt that the moral of the story was to lose weight until you look like a model in a magazine and then the world is in the palm of your hand. You can then get anything you want in life.

Yes, this story is a modern day fairy tale.

A fluffy, chick lit book in the same vein as _Bridget Jones' Diary_ (right down to the last name!) about love, weight and all the rest. All in all, it was fun, but in an odd writing style, switching from first, to second, to third person P.O.V. willy-nilly.

What a fun and uplifting read. Great for the girl who needs a pick me up and a great love story all in one!

Enjoyable chick lit. It was better than Jane Green's Bookends or To Have and To Hold, but not as good as Mr. Maybe.