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Loading... What I Did for Love: A Novelby Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. An enjoyable fantasy on the themes of 'bad boy who turns out to be a pretty good guy' and 'finding real love where you least expect it.' Engaging and nicely dishy about life in Hollywood, but skip the epilogue unless you want an overdose of saccharine. Overall, the experience is how I imagine reading an R-rated Sarah Dessen would be if you also lowered your threshold for believability. (That's not a complaint.) (  ) kylenapoli | Oct 25, 2009 |  A fun, fun read, with all of the elements of a perfect escapist novel. I will be reading more by Phillips! (  ) stephaniechase | Aug 31, 2009 | They grew up together on America’s favorite television sitcom. Georgie York was young, naïve, and overprotected. Bramwell Shepard was a callous youth, whose trouble making brought down the show. All grown up now, Georgie’s famous actor husband has left her for another woman. And if things couldn’t get worse, Georgie and Bram find themselves waking up in a Las Vegas hotel room with a marriage license with their names on it and no memory of how they got there. In this fairly predictable, but thoroughly enjoyable, story, Georgie and Bram struggle to keep up appearances and launch serious careers under the scrutiny of the public and the paparazzi. (  ) punxsygal | Aug 18, 2009 | Another feel-good romance from an always entertaining author, While this is a Hollywood story, with the making of TV and movie celebrities as its backdrop, it does have cameos by some of the characters from Phillips' previous books. I'm never disappointed by SEP and the tale of Georgie and Bram is no exception. hailelib | Jul 8, 2009 | I love SEP and I've read every single book she's ever written and she's on my autobuy list. All that being said, I was disappointed with this piece of froth. Two child actors who everyone loved but who hated each other, are now in their early 30's and both their lives are falling apart, for different reasons. A totally implausible plot twist gets them married (the old ecstacy in the wine trick) and then they go on a tabloid ride till they manage to fall in love for real. I didn't believe either of them really and while I wanted to like them, I just couldn't get into them enough. I liked Georgie York, the vulnerable commediene more, but she's not one of my favorite heroines. I didn't believe Bram's insight in the beach, or that he would have lied to her in that way earlier. It just didn't ring emotionally true for me. This is a really easy read, I read it in one day, but it's also, sadly, easily forgettable too. ( ) amf0001 | Jul 3, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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How did this happen? Georgie York, once the costar of America's favorite television sitcom, has been publicly abandoned by her famous husband, her film career has tanked, her father is driving her crazy, and her public image as a spunky heroine is taking a serious beating.
What should a down-on-her-luck actress do? Not go to Vegas . . . not run into her detestable former costar, dreamboat-from-hell Bramwell Shepard . . . and not get caught up in an ugly incident that leads to a calamitous elopement. Before she knows it, Georgie has a fake marriage, a fake husband, and maybe (or not) a fake sex life.
It's a paparazzi free-for-all, and Georgie's nonsupporting cast doesn't help. There's Bram's punk-nightmare housekeeper, Georgie's own pushy parent, a suck-up agent, an icy studio head with a private agenda, and her ex-husband's new wife, who can't get enough of doing good deeds and saving the world—the bitch. As for Georgie's leading man, Bram's giving the performance of his life, but he's never cared about anyone except himself, and it's not exactly clear why.
Two enemies find themselves working without a script in a town where the spotlight shines bright . . . and where the strongest emotions can wear startling disguises.
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