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Bezig met laden... Oh! You Pretty Thingsdoor Shanna Mahin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 2 stars was generous. ( ) I am not even really sure what the premise of this book was, but I really enjoyed it. There is no big sturm and drang, no huge plot twist or anything. Just a story of a girl trying to make it in California. Currently she is a star's assistant (a thankless job if I have ever heard of one) and a best friend. Not much to this, but I swept through it pretty quickly and didn't want to put it down. I was a little bothered by the storyline involving the mom, it just didn't need to be there. I felt like it was supposed to go somewhere and just got left behind. Otherwise, entertaining read. so.... hmm. the author includes a fairly interesting acknowledgments section at the back of this novel. as i was reading her personal commentary, i kept thinking her real life story (which seems to be slightly woven into O!YPT) would make for an excellent memoir (along the lines of Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir), and probably be a better read that Oh! You Pretty Things. (sorry!) while there is definitely entertainment value to mahin's book, i didn't find it very original. it also felt a bit simplistic and clichéd. anyway, it's a quick read. i was left feeling like mahin has great potential, but missed some opportunities in her debut novel. for many, this will be worth your consideration for vacation or summer reading. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she's got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she's a dead girl walking. Enter Jess's mother--a failed actress who puts the strange in estrangement. She dives headlong into her daughter's downward spiral, forcing Jess to muster all her spite and self-preservation to snag a career upgrade: as a personal assistant for a famous (and secretly agoraphobic) film composer, Jesss workdays are now filled with shopping for luxury goods and cooking in his perfectly designed kitchen"--dust jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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