Shirley J. (NoShushing) - reviewed on 7/12/2007 + 199 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

I think it's supposed to be funny, but I started out not liking this book at all. First, I prefer my fiction to be in the 3rd person, past tense. This is both present tense and first person, which made the bad treatment she was getting more personal. Her job, for instance, expecting long hours, without even weekends off. And there's her workaholic mother and brother, who are supposed to meet her for her birthday dinner, and both of them stand her up. Her brother's secretary delivers her present: soap. She's sitting there, alone, being sung to by waiters, her family represented by two cell phones. The waiter leaves the drinks beside the phones. Funny, but pathetic. Then there's a disaster at work, and she loses it and runs. I was halfway through the book before I started to enjoy it.

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