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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Since I adored Conversations with the Fat Girl, I couldn't wait to get my hands on Palmer's second novel. The heroine of Seeing Me Naked is Elisabeth Page, daughter of Pulitzer-winning novelist Ben Page and sister of up-and-coming writer Rascal Page (yeah, that's short for Raskolnikov). Elisabeth is a pastry chef in L.A.'s hottest restaurant, but she's under constant pressure from her family to do more with her life. She's also stuck in a going-nowhere-fast relationship with journalist Will, who's always halfway around the world on a story. When beer-drinking basketball coach Daniel Sullivan enters her life, at first she views him as a relaxing fling, but her feelings soon deepen and cause her to question her whole way of life. Although Seeing Me Naked is technically chick lit, it's a lot more than just a cute romance. The main focus is Elisabeth's growth and development, and her relationship with her family is given a lot of weight. It's not as consistently lighthearted as Conversations with the Fat Girl; the tone was more somber, though there were quite a few laugh-out-loud moments too. Liza Palmer is a really good writer, and I'd recommend anything by her. In my opinion, as chick lit goes, she's at the top of the genre. ladyc72385 | Mar 11, 2009 |   Elizabeth Page is a 5 star chef. She works in a field that is completely oppisite of her famous father and brother who are writers. She is waiting for the man she thinks she loves to love her enough to stay and trying to figure out where her life is really going. Since her five/eleven year plan is failing her. At one of her mother's charity auctions she meets a man she thought she would never fall for. It turns out that she fell in love with him anyway. This book is a definition of dysfunctional. Father making out with son's current fling in the kitchen at a family dinner, Fist fight at Thanksgiving, Chef that degrads and disrespects his employees. I think what saved this book was the ending. The initmate life changing event of witnessing a child being born, and a boyfriend willing to put aside his ego for just one minute to see the bigger picture. I think Daniel's character was a wonderful fantasy but I don't think it was very realistic that he would get Elizabeth's insecurities and fears without her having to spell them out (  )butterflybaby | Feb 10, 2009 | 0.096 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0446698377, Paperback)Elisabeth Page is the daughter of Ben Page, yes, that's right, THE world famous novelist. And yes, she's also the sister of Rascal Page, world famous novelist in his own right. So what does Elisabeth do? Much to her family's disappointment, Elisabeth is a pastry chef. And a pretty damn good one, at Beverly, the hottest restaurant in LA.The last relationship Elisabeth had was with Will, a man she grew up with and whose family ran in the same social circles as her family. But Will's constant jaunts around the world have left her lonely and brokenhearted in L.A. That is until Daniel Sullivan bids on one of Elisabeth's pastry tutorials at a charity auction. Daniel is everything her family is not: a basketball coach, a non-intellectual, his family doesn't summer on Martha's Vineyard, and the only metaphors he uses are about passing the ball and being a team player. But somehow they fit. Between her family, Will, and the new cooking show that Elisabeth is recruited to star in, Elisabeth's life is suddenly incredibly new and different--the question is, can she embrace being happy or has her family conditioned her to think she's just not good enough? Liza Palmer expertly depicts a woman trying to come to terms with professional success, personal success, and finally dealing with a family that might love her from the bottom of their heart but doesn't necessarily have her best interest always at heart. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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