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Loading... Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr. Right in All the Wrong Placesby Bridget Harrison
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0738210447, Hardcover)What if Bridget Jones were alive and well and living in Manhattan? Meet Bridget Harrison, a soon-to-be-thirty Brit, newly-on-the-scene reporter for America’s most famous tabloid, the New York Post. While her friends back in London are tossing their bridal bouquets, Bridget is chasing down the next big story-and her dream of becoming a topnotch journalist. But just when she’s perfected the art of interviewing complete strangers about ghoulish crimes, finding a mate in the Big Apple proves downright, well, impossible. As Bridget learns (the hard way) the vexing rules of dating in the ultimate singles city, a silver lining appears in her dating cloud: She lands her very own Post column about her quest for love. Each Sunday half a million New Yorkers read about her match-ups with urban Romeos, including a man who tells her she’d be "one hot chick if she made a bit more of an effort" (even though she’s wearing her Page Six pal’s designer cast-offs) and another who shoves her into a cab before she can say "bugger off." Pursuing love under deadline, however, doesn’t make finding it any easier, especially when each week she has to run her copy by the very person she suspects might be the One. Wonderfully funny, poignant, smart, and gossipy, in the best sense, about the New York/Hamptons set, this tale is every woman’s story of the quest to have it all: a great job, a true love-and a livable apartment. Which, after all, doesn’t seem so bloody much to ask, does it? (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I really enjoyed this book; it felt very real and very close to home (except the New York reminiscing bits). At times, perhaps, it felt a little too real. When one of her relationships petered out, it felt so familiar that it almost hurt. Unfortunately real life doesn't stop with a happy ending just because the readers want it to. So the book ended on a mature and upbeat note, but... fiction is so much more satisfying in the end. (