Starnge Bedpersons

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

Name: Smooth Talking Stranger
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Start Date: January 13
Finish Date: January 14
Type: Adult Comical Romance; Hardback
Status: Library; 3rd in Travis Series

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Summary:Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. He makes no commitments, he loves many women, he lives for pleasure. But no one has ever truly touched his heart or soul. Until one day, a woman appears on his doorstep with fury on her face and a baby in her arms. It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the baby’s aunt. The real mother has abandoned the child to her more responsible sister. And now, Jack is being called upon to take responsibility for the first time in his life. With delicious romantic tension, characters so real they walk onto the page and into your heart, Lisa Kleypas delivers the kind of novel that makes you laugh, love; cry and cheer.

My Review: When I started this I thought it was just another typical romance but it really, truly touched me. The characters are so down to earth and it all seems so true that you start cheering on the main characters. Plus, Lisa knows how o make a good man! lol. If only we could all have Jacks;a smart, tender, thoughtful, sexy as hell Texan man. Who doesn't want that?

Exert: " It's drugs, isn't it? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then,-'
'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.'
'She was pressured, ' my mother snapped. 'You have no idea what it's like to be beautiful, Ella. All the problems it can bring on.' " - pg. 115

Cover/Title: The cover is so-so. And so is the title. But it all works.

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~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine

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