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Loading... What a Girl Wants (Ashley Stockingdale Series #3)by Kristin BillerbeckSeries: Ashley Stockingdale Series (1)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I really, really wanted to love this book. I hoped I would fall in love with Ashley Stockingdale the same way I fell in love with Macy Moore or Elle Garvey, but it was not to be. I tried so hard to understand Ashley, to relate to her, to cheer for her...I just couldn't. Maybe I set myself up for failure...I was expecting Billerbeck's writing to mirror that of Rachel Hauck and yet they have two completely different writing styles, different ways of developing a character and telling their story. Sure, they are both Christian chick-lit writers, but that's where the similarities end. (  ) bookstorylori | Oct 1, 2009 |  I found this main character whinny and self absorbed. I didn't finish the book , I stopped half way thru. Didn't have the patience to wait for her to mature and find happiness. I read other books by this author and enjoyed them, I will try this one another time when I may be more in the mood. echarles18 | Aug 1, 2008 | A really cute book! I enjoyed the main character's morals, values, sense of humor and sense of style. I really enjoyed the humor and deep personalities of the characters in this book and the cute storyline. The characters reminded me of people I know. I liked that this was a Christian fiction book even though I haven't read one of those in a long time. It was a breath of fresh air. I'll definately read the sequel and any subsequent sequals to this book. A good read! (  ) picklechic | Mar 1, 2008 | Ashley Stockingdale is a 31-year-old patent attorney in Silicon Valley. She's cute, eligible, Christian---and sitting home alone most weekends. Until she decides to go for it! But what's "it" . . . a promotion? A new wardrobe? The handsome doctor she recently met? Will Ashley discover the difference between her "wants" and her "needs"? RAPS | Aug 15, 2007 | December 2005 (  ) pamjimo1 | Dec 19, 2005 |  no reviews | add a review
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Ashley Stockingdale, 31, has a respectable (read: boring) job in Silicon Valley as a patent attorney. It's the kind of life that causes her mother to ask repeatedly, "Now what exactly do you do there, dear?"
Given that in Silicon Valley the single men outnumber the women 2 to 1, Ashley can't help but wonder why a cute, eligible, Christian girl ("with absolutely adorable shoes") sits home most weekends. Even her church singles group fails to satisfy, endlessly watching The Matrix and "splurging", obnoxiously, on un-cool dinners at Applebee's and unhip franchise restaurants.
So Ashley resolves to go for it! If only she knew what "it" she's going for. Perhaps that ever-illusive promotion that would give her the glamorous career girl image she's longed for? Or maybe the wardrobe to end all wardrobes, turning her glowing, possibly-pregnant newlywed friends green with envy? Or, best of all, winning the affections of the handsome doctor she's met through her work with the youth center!
Ultimately, Ashley finds that what a girl wants and what a girl needs aren't always the same thing. Join Ashley for the first of two lighthearted books about a single-girl's bumbling but loveable quest for meaning.
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