Crossing the comic voice of Jennifer Weiner with the poignancy of Elizabeth Berg, Smolinski pens a charming, touching, and highly accessible new work of commercial women's fiction, which features a lovable, relatable heroine and a story with plenty of humor and heart.
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Crossing the comic voice of Jennifer Weiner with the poignancy of Elizabeth Berg, Smolinski pens a charming, touching, and highly accessible new work of commercial women's fiction, which features a lovable, relatable heroine and a story with plenty of humor and heart.
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This is a summertime, easy read. The story isn't very deep.... but it's definitely a feel good page-turner that may even inspire you to think about your own goals in life. My book club read it and we all loved it... and we all created our own list of 5 things to accomplish in the next 5 years. It's an excellent book club discussion book!
dogs4evr
Jan 11, 2008
Disappointing
Our book club chose this book. Personally I felt the list contained many preposterous things to accomplish in such a short time. Secondly, there were too many characters in the book that were unnecessary and took a way from the story. Yes, I believe it is a challenge to take on another person's list. However from my point of view, it would have been more important to learn of the protagonists development and personal discovery as she became another person. So a smaller list, more character development would have made the book worthwhile. Instead, it felt like another rushed book in formula mode.
run11
Jun 7, 2007
great read!!
This was a fun read with a great story line. We read this as a book club selection and it made for insightful conversation. We played a game where we each made a list of 5 things we wanted to do before we die and we had to guess who's list belonged to whom.