Weekend in Paris

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Summary: A fun read
Review: Molly is excited about taking a business trip to France, but she finds out that her boss doesn't have the best intentions with her. On the day they are supposed to leave for France, she quits her job. What's a girl to do? Go the France anyway! Molly makes a new friend, has a romance, and is reunited with a relative. She dresses, acts, and basically does things that she wouldn't normally do, and she has the time of her life doing these things! Weekend in Paris is a lot of fun. The ending isn't the traditional happy ending. You are left with a few possibilites for Molly's life. Maybe someday Robyn Sisman will give us a second part in Molly's life...?



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Summary: the goody-goody (...): a study in hypocrisy
Review: this book began with a whole lot of potential--sisman even had a t.s. eliot reference within the first chapter--but the book fizzled, big time, by page 150 or so. while molly's naivete at first seems charming, 100 pages or so later you just want to slap her for being so stupid, annoying, goody-goody and polly-anna-ish. a novel about such a character would be salvageable, but somehow this chicken-little character manages to sleep with a guy she's met less than 24 hours ago. huh? is this the same character who was freaking out about wearing a RED dress? it just doesn't make sense. i finished the book, mostly to see how ridiculous the ending would be...

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Summary: Disappointed
Review: This book was very disappointing to me. The main character, Molly Clearwater, was unorginal and the story line was unimaginative. An eighth grader could have thought this book up. I read the book skipping pages at a time and could still follow the storyline -- there was so much text and not even action. I thought the book was not funny at all and a poor excuse for "chic lit."

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Summary: If you love Paris and love life's surprises
Review: This is the first Robyn Sisman book I have had the pleasure to read but it won't be the last. Each hour presents a new revelation to the heroine, about Paris, about strangers, about her family, and in the end about her own character. Her love affair with the city mirrors the reaction of every 21-year-old who falls for Paris, but her transition from frumpy, staid, safe young girl to a daring, cheeky, and warm lass who embraces not only the city but strangers and life is as heart-warming as it is fast-paced. The outrageous characters she meets along the way keep the story fresh. And yet it isn't outlandish, but surprisingly familiar to one who lived in Paris as a young student 40 years ago. Ms. Sisman is a fabulous wordsmith and story-teller.

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Summary: Awful
Review: This was a real dud. Dull, annoying main character.