Starnge Bedpersons

Name: Strange Bedpersons
Author: Jennifer Crusie
Pages: 328
Start Date: January 26
Finish Date: January 26
Type: Comedy Romance; Hardback
Status: Library
Rating:

Summary:Tess Newhart knows her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson isn't the right guy for her. He's caviar and champagne; she's take-out Chinese pot stickers. He's an uptight Republican lawyer; she was raised in a commune. He wants to get ahead in business; she just wants…him. But there's no way Tess will play second fiddle to his job.Yet somehow she finds herself agreeing to play his fiancée on a weekend business trip that could make or break Nick's career. And while he's trying to convince Tess that he needs her in his respectable world, Tess is doing her best to keep her opinions to herself and her hands off Nick.

My Review: The only reason I got this was because of the cover. Well that and I adore Jennifer! This book was a typical funny, get-back together story, with some twists. I love all the characters because they are all different and fun, and strong in their own unique way. Also I really liked the dialogue of all things! I loved some of the comebacks and fights in this book. Oh, and no doubt you will respect pianos after this

Exert: "You wouldn't believe how they met." She sat up in her chair as she warmed to her story. "Nick told me he was tutoring in college as part of a work-study program, and Park showed up, on the verge of getting kicked our of school because of this really important English paper he'd flunked. On Moby Dick."
"That's the whale, right? I saw the movie."
"Right," Tess said. " Only when Park showed Nick the paper, the prof had written across the top of it, 'Unfortunately, Mr.Patterson, the whale dies in the end.'"
"Park didn't know the whale died?" Gina sounded confused. "He died in the movie."
"Yeah, he dies in Cliff Notes, too," Tess said, laughing. "So Nick said he asked Park how he could possibly have missed that part, and Park said that when he was a kid, his parents only bought him educational toys, and one of the games they bought him was the Moby Dick game-"
"The Moby Dick game?"
"- but the game was meant for kids, so in the game-"
"The whale makes it," Gina finished.
"Exactly," Tess said.
~ 54-55

~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine

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Bet Me

Name: Bet Me
Author: Jennifer Crusie
Pages: 391
Start Date: January 4
Finish Date: January 5
Type: Adult Comedy, Romance; Paperback
Status: Library
Rating:

Summary: Setting: small city in Ohio.Thirty-three-year-old Minerva Dobbs is annoyed when her current boyfriend dumps her three weeks before her sisters' wedding. But she's downright furious a few moments later when she overhears her now "ex" boyfriend bet hunky Calvin Morrisey that he can't take her home and bed her. In fact, she's so angry at them both that she lets Cal take her to dinner and decides to string him along until after her sisters' wedding. Minerva pegs Cal as a handsome "used car salesman of seducers." Cal thinks Minerva is a "cranky, starving, risk-averse statistician." But Minerva's hormones keep whispering "this one," although she knows the gorgeous Cal isn't the man for her practical, white-cotton-bra, several-pounds-over-thin, self. And Cal is blindsided by the lust he feels for the voluptuous, sensual woman he glimpses behind Min's actuary exterior. While Cal and Min struggle to deal with their mutual distrust and attraction, their friends and families try their best to interfere and direct the progression of the unlikely romantic connection.Bet Me is unabashedly, irrepressibly romantic. In the wacky, wonderful world of Min and Cal, author Jennifer Crusie leaves no humorous situation unexplored--no potential comedic cauldron left unstirred--no hysterically funny complication left undeveloped. The reader is treated to a seemingly mismatched hero and heroine who fling caution to the winds to explore their unexpected attraction. The sexual tension is hot, the dialogue witty and wickedly sarcastic, and the supporting cast of secondary characters hilarious. Like Min's favorite Krispy Kreme donuts, this novel is rich and sinfully delicious. Indulge. Enjoy.

My Review: Wow. That is one word to describe this book. There is no action, mystery, or scandal, but there are bets. Lots of bets.... It a fairy-tale, in a snow-globe, that finally gets shaken up. Throw in doughnuts, chicken Marsala, both the awesome Elvis' (Costello & Presley), great shoes, a wedding, scary families, a freaky cat, crazy exes, and sexy bets, and you got this book. It has some very sexy sexual content, so you have been warned. But I loved it, and by the end (which is prefecto!) I was in love with not only the main guy Calvin, but I had a soft spot for every one. Even Harry :)

p.s. --- The Shoes!!!! Who wants them? I do!

Exert: " One upon a time, Minerva Dobbs thought as she stood in the middle of a loud yuppie bar, the world was full of good men. She looked into the handsome face of the man she'd planned on taking to her sister's wedding and thought, Those days are gone. 'This relationship is not working for me,' David said. I could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She wouldn't do it, of course. The stick was plastic and not nearly pointed enough on the end. Also, people didn't do things like that in southern Ohio. A sawed-off shotgun, that was the ticket." - Opening (pg. 1)

Cover/Title: Love the cover! And the title is perfect!!!

Extras:
Official Book Page <-- Have to read this page LOL
Chicken Marsala (as it is made by Min) <-- You have to go down a little but it's there!
Bet Me Copy Edit Collage <-- It's at the bottom
My Bet Me Playlist <-- If I need to add songs, comment!





~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine

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The Start of Something New

This is completely new to me so, give me a break. I have read zillions of books in the last 4 years (because that is when I got interested is reading) and here are SOME faves off the top of my head: Mortal Instruments (!Can't wait for City of Angels!), Twilight Saga, Wicked Lovely (still reading them but I loved the 1st), Gemma Doyle Trilogy (Even though the 3rd made me mad) and WAY many more,but hey I have had NO COFFEE. So far this year, 2010, I have read: "Betrayed" by P.C. Cast; "Champagne Girl" by Diana Palmer; "The Snow Bride" by Debbie Macomber; "A Wind in Cairo" by Judith Tarr; "A Knight in Shining Armor" by Jude Deveraux; "Bet Me" by Jennifer Crusie; "Tantalize" by Cynthia Leitich Smith. I will put up separate reviews on all of them soon! Also this blog is to record my clumsiness. I have been to the ER for my knees; I cracked my collar bone and then the cells got happy when mending and now i have a bump on my collar bone; I have freaky toes; I can move my tendons off my knuckles and "feel" the bone; and i have many other things that mark me as me and a klutz.(Also those things have JUST happened in my young adult life, NOT just in 2010 lol) I spill, I break and when I fall, I take someone, or something down with me, where it be the whole cat can-food isle or my Principal. Well I think that catches you up to date... If there are questions or something I spelled wrong, or even if you are a fellow klutzphobian, COmMeNt and FoLlOw :)

Have a Safe Proof Day,
The Clumsy Reader aka Christine

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