it was ok, nothing amazing but a good read on holiday ( )

I will have this book finished tomorrow. As fate would have it, I started reading this book just after I turned thirty (or thirtynothing) as the female protagonist calls it. All the descriptions of eating cheap curries made me crave a good curry today and I treated myself to one at lunch.

I'm finding this book to be bitter sweet. There are some very funny bits and some very sad bits. On a one to one level I don't find myself relating to either protagonist. I married my college sweetheart and we're still happily married. This book is a glimpse of what could have been if I hadn't actively persued my then boyfriend (now husband). If you're single -- let me tell you this -- people don't read body language at all. If you like someone -- TELL THEM! :) ( )

Thirty-year-old London friends, a male and a female, have their romantic ups and downs with others with predictable results, but getting to the end of the book is quite fun. ( )

This book was even more stupid and predictible than I thought it would be. Ugh. ( )

This was a book of cliches... and not even well-woven ones at that. I should have gotten that from the cover, but I was always taught to never judge a book by its binding. I will be rethinking that lesson from now on.

I considered not finishing it after about 20 pages, and after hitting a flashback to the teen years, I decided to suck it up and finish it.

It took a day. I'm glad it cost me little else than a day's worth of reading and $1 on a clearance shelf. ( )