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Whitney Gaskell

Auteur van She, Myself & I

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Bevat de namen: Piper Banks, Whitney Gaskell

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Werken van Whitney Gaskell

She, Myself & I (2005) 136 exemplaren
True Love (and Other Lies) (2004) 133 exemplaren
Good Luck (2008) 123 exemplaren
Mommy Tracked (2007) 121 exemplaren
Geek High (2007) 118 exemplaren
Testing Kate (2006) 117 exemplaren
Pushing 30 (2003) 94 exemplaren
Geek Abroad (Geek High) (2008) 69 exemplaren
Table for Seven: A Novel (2013) 63 exemplaren
Summer of the Geek (Geek High) (2010) 31 exemplaren
When You Least Expect It (2010) 26 exemplaren
Revenge of the Geek (Geek High) (2010) 24 exemplaren

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Banks, Piper (pen name)
Geboortedatum
1972
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Syracuse, New York, USA
Woonplaatsen
Florida, USA
Beroepen
Lawyer
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Cute, quick read about 7 friends and their monthly dinner parties and all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes. The menus listed at the beginning of each chapter made me hungry. This would be a great summer beach read.

I received this book from NetGalley.com
 
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Stacie-C | 3 andere besprekingen | May 8, 2021 |
So I have been reading Whitney Gaskell off and on for years. I noticed she hasn't put out something new in years though. I decided to do a re-read of some of the books I owned and I can't understand why I loved this book when I read it before. Maybe because I was younger and thought the whole plot was so romantic. Now I am older and call BS more I guess.

"True Love and Other Lies" follows Claire. Claire is a travel writer who has pretty much given up on love after being shat upon by her ex called Sawyer (that name you guys). But she has an absolute awesome meet cute (yeah...it was alright) with a lawyer named Jack on her way to London. Claire feels herself getting excited about Jack, but second guesses everything he says and does after he expresses interest in seeing her while she is in London. A huge surprise is in store for Claire though when she finds out who Jack was dating before he started seeing her.

Claire was driving me up the wall through most of the book. She hates her job, has a dubious relationship with her sister (who she diagnoses as anorexic or bulimic) and acts like an asshole towards her parents when they make other holiday plans without her (this is after she goes into how she doesn't want to go out of town to see them) and also acts like a jerk towards her best friend Maddie when she makes other plans to go out and once again Claire doesn't want to see her since she has plans. Did you follow all that? Pretty much Claire wants everyone to be thinking about how her all the time while ignoring how she is not putting any effort into her personal relationships at all. She's also a jerk at work and I didn't find myself rooting for her at all. I think some of the characters she was tormenting would be writing into "Ask A Manager" cause of the crap she pulls.

I think I just got tired of Claire and her woe is me thing she had going through the whole book. Her own mother tells her she has self esteem issues. But honestly, I don't think that's it. She just acts contradictory about every little thing and it drives you up the wall.

The secondary characters don't work that well. There is Claire's best friend Maddie, that I wish we had gotten more details about since most of the book is about their relationship. And Claire's next door neighbor Max who I found to be off-putting the entire time I read about him.

I did love the writing about London and New York. I wish that we got more details about Claire's travel assignments, but we just get tidbits here and there.

Without giving away the plot, I no ma'amed through most of this book. I just could not with Claire and also side eyed the hell out Jack as well. When you get to the end things fall apart (the center cannot hold) with an explanation about things that did not make any sense at all.

The book fast forwards about a year or so though and we get a happily ever after.
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ObsidianBlue | Jul 1, 2020 |
Not bad, I did enjoy this one, it just drug things out a bit for me. I have never been to law school so I don't know if the experiences depicted are true to life (Socratic Method) or not, but the one law school professor is the stuff of nightmares. Kate was an okay character, I just didn't love her. I think my big issue though is the end when Kate goes off to her happily ever after it felt really out of the blue to me. Seemed as if Gaskell was using a bit of her own life (nothing wrong with that) as inspiration for this fictional character.

Kate is going to law school in New Orleans at Tulane Law School. Orphaned when she was in college, Kate decides to pack it up to head to law school after breaking things off with her long-term boyfriend. Kate quickly joins a quirky group that all are in law school. The people in the group are Nick (potential love interest), Jen (only married woman in the group) Addison (a tool, sorry he is), Lexi (who Kate feels diminished next to since Lexi is attractive, but then Kate is happy to notice she has thin lips) and Dana (a 19 year old law student).

I honestly didn't like any of the group that is depicted. Nick sleeps with anything with a pulse and I was just grossed out by him. Jen has an affair. Addison is a tool as already mentioned. Lexi and Dana are barely in this except to throw some drama in the book.

Most of the book though is Kate wondering what to do when her law prof seems out to get her and whether she should get back with her ex or move on to someone else. At least she has some self awareness about how she is always dating and not secure enough to just be alone. The reason why I did like this book and ended up giving it three stars was that even though this was chick lit, it was fairly messy. And even though I didn't care for most of the characters due to their actions in the book, Gaskell does a good job of moving the story along.

The writing is okay, I was baffled by most of the law trivia and other things mentioned. I should have just messaged Moonlight Reader about any questions I had while reading.

The setting of the book is New Orleans, but I really wanted more depictions of the city. This was written before Katrina occurred, so I wanted to know more about New Orleans besides Mardi Gras (beads were thrown, Kate was over it) and wanted to read more about the French Quarter, jazz, etc. I guess you can't expect to read about a lot of that since Kate is in law school and working. But I was still disappointed.

The ending was okay, I didn't feel a thing about any of Kate's love interests though, so that's probably why.
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ObsidianBlue | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 1, 2020 |
Spanning a year in the life of seven friends, Whitney Gaskill’s Table for Seven is a heartwarming novel about the sometimes complicated relationships between husbands, wives and friends. An eclectic cast of characters brings this delightful story vibrantly to life as they go through the various ups and downs of love, marriage and friendship. Please click HERE to read my review in its entirety.… (meer)
 
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Werken
12
Ook door
1
Leden
1,055
Populariteit
#24,420
Waardering
½ 3.6
Besprekingen
31
ISBNs
48
Talen
1
Favoriet
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