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Mitch Samuel's life is falling apart : he forgot his girlfriend at the
airport causing her to dump him ; his writing career is in shambles after
being rejected - again - and one particular student in his class is
driving him insane with her undoubtedly callous behaviors. Feeling down
and out and also quite angry, Mitch stumbles upon a newly released book by
the Queen of all Chick-Lit authors, Katherine Longwell. He decides on a
whim to pick up the book and laugh at how stupid it is, compared to his
scholarly manuscript. (Mitch isn't surprised to learn that yes, he was
right : Chick Lit is rubbish.) However, while scanning the book at a local
Starbucks, Mitch encounters Katherine Longwell herself and she takes to
Mitch immediately. When he sees an opportunity he goes for it and tells
Katherine that he has a cousin who is writing a Chick Lit novel that she
would love to have critiqued by such a famous author. Katherine easily
falls for his lines and agrees to look at his "cousin's" manuscript. Now,
Mitch has a new dilemma : He has no cousin/writer and he doesn't have a
manuscript! Not knowing what to do, Mitch talks it over with his friend
Bradley who suggests Mitch join his sister, Marie's, dance class to get
"into the minds of women". Mitch agrees and joins the class expecting lots
of spandex and flamboyant men, but what he finds is a genuinely nice group
of people who believe he is not Mitch the writer, but Jason the
Pharmaceutical rep. To complicate things even more, Mitch begins to fall
for Marie, but can't tell her who he really is or why he really joined the
dance class. As he learns more about the people in his class, his version
of the Chick Lit book starts to take shape and he realizes that Chick Lit
is not as dumb as he thought. Although this book is not conventional Chick
Lit, it is absolutely hilarious, witty and charming coming from a mans
perspective.
Mitch Samuel's life is falling apart : he forgot his girlfriend at the
airport causing her to dump him ; his writing career is in shambles after
being rejected - again - and one particular student in his class is
driving him insane with her undoubtedly callous behaviors. Feeling down
and out and also quite angry, Mitch stumbles upon a newly released book by
the Queen of all Chick-Lit authors, Katherine Longwell. He decides on a
whim to pick up the book and laugh at how stupid it is, compared to his
scholarly manuscript. (Mitch isn't surprised to learn that yes, he was
right : Chick Lit is rubbish.) However, while scanning the book at a local
Starbucks, Mitch encounters Katherine Longwell herself and she takes to
Mitch immediately. When he sees an opportunity he goes for it and tells
Katherine that he has a cousin who is writing a Chick Lit novel that she
would love to have critiqued by such a famous author. Katherine easily
falls for his lines and agrees to look at his "cousin's" manuscript. Now,
Mitch has a new dilemma : He has no cousin/writer and he doesn't have a
manuscript! Not knowing what to do, Mitch talks it over with his friend
Bradley who suggests Mitch join his sister, Marie's, dance class to get
"into the minds of women". Mitch agrees and joins the class expecting lots
of spandex and flamboyant men, but what he finds is a genuinely nice group
of people who believe he is not Mitch the writer, but Jason the
Pharmaceutical rep. To complicate things even more, Mitch begins to fall
for Marie, but can't tell her who he really is or why he really joined the
dance class. As he learns more about the people in his class, his version
of the Chick Lit book starts to take shape and he realizes that Chick Lit
is not as dumb as he thought. Although this book is not conventional Chick
Lit, it is absolutely hilarious, witty and charming coming from a mans
perspective.
