Rating: 
Summary: Great Weekend Reading!
Review: I am busy college student who needs a break every now and then. I purchased this book at my local bookstore, basically b/c it was on sale, and once I opened the front cover, I never put it down!! It has a great sense of humor and appeal to the younger woman. Following the dating life of Jackie will probably either remind you of your current dating status, or if you are older -- take you back to all of those fun memories. ...
Rating:
Summary: This book was a great light read for the beach!
Review: Once I picked up this book I couldnt put it down. Only start it if you have enough time to really just sit down and read the whole thing, lol. I loved it!
Rating:
Summary: Worth a Read
Review: Yay! Really good book. The characters were hysterical and the writing was really fast paced. I felt so real - like I was reading my own diary!
Rating: 
Summary: Jackie is too young for this book to work
Review: I'll give the author one thing: there are some laugh-out-loud funny scenes in this book. However, for the most part, it was unfulfilling. Jackie is shallow and insensitive. None of the characters are really developed except for Jackie and she's just not worth developing.I also thought it was annoying that the author would switch back and forth between excerpts from the books that the character was editing and stories in the character's life. It seemed like all those excerpts were just space-fillers. I expected more stories of interesting dates with un-interesting guys. The men in this book all have something wrong with them except for one.....hmmm, big mystery who she ends up with. Too bad the author never really developed his character except to only give him the "nice friend" role in Jackie's life. The book was completely anti-climactic. I found certain scenes in this book to be pretty funny in a "oh that happened to me once" way, but the overall story was somewhat dull.
Rating: 
Summary: Pleasant waste of time..
Review: This is a nice hour of tv-entertainment made as a book. It's clearly aiming at a "Sex and the City" kinda thing, and in a way succeeding. The author manages to hold your interest and involve you with the problems of 20-something single Jackie, who looks like Sarah Jessica Parker and is an out-going(desperate) girl living in Boston, US. Although probably young women can relate to some of her problems and issues, the book (not to speak of the character) is shallow, selfsentered and pathetic. According to this book we, the young women, do not follow our emotions and instinct but the "rules" on how our lives are supposed to be, only concerned with dating (you can of course not live without a boyfriend), clothes, dieting and success(that is successfull men). Not only does the book make these rules a topic but it also accepts them. The only real thing about Jackie is her sex-drive and even that seems more like a should-do-it instead of the want-to-do-it.
Other characters are not of importance and we only see them through how they affect Jackie's life, they're not "real", the only person you can relate to is the protagonist. The attempts to make the book intellectual by referances to "Freudian slips" and classic American litterature are poor, ...
I still give the book two stars for being equally interesting as a mediocre tv-show and truly entertaining. If you feel like a lazy hour in the sun, read it, but there are thousands of entertaining AND intelligent books out there that I'd rather recomend to young and single partygirls. Because even though we sometimes seem superficial, we're real people too, hurting, and searching and loving.
Rating:
Summary: Milkrun: the process of dating in the 21st century
Review: Many people would refer to this book as Bridget Jones for the 20-somethings. It is more than that. It is like gossipping with your best girlfriend about men, sex, friends, and everything under the sun. Sometimes you even learn something, like a great plan for getting over someone, starting with buying a great pair of "f-ck me boots." I absolutely loved this book and I not only recommend it to any fan of the genre, I think it should be required reading.
Rating:
Summary: Loved It...
Review: I thought Milkrun was super funny and entertaining!! Being single myself, I can completely relate to Jackie's issues with dating. So fun to read!
Rating: 
Summary: It's a fast read!
Review: After turning the last page in this book, I must confess that I am so grateful that I am already happily married and my wild dating days are long over! However, this is a fun book to pick up and laugh over some of the foibles of the dating age!! I wouldn't hesitate to pass it onto my single girlfriends who need a laugh over their dating dilemmas!! Jackie gets dumped by her boyfriend through email, which I must admit that is pretty crass. So in her search for ways to get over him, Jackie determines that she'll be this "crazy dating girl" and the adventures begin. Haunting the bar scenes, taking care of her baby sister, watching her roommate bounce back from a failed relationship ~~ all makes for an interesting read! However, be warned, some of these characters will get on your nerve with their constant whining! But it is typical of any one these days! If you're looking for a quick easy read, this book is it. I enjoyed it ~~ but it's not on the top of my favorite book lists! It's fun, saucy and cute ~~ perfect for a beach read. 6-26-02
Rating: 
Summary: Fun Poolside Read
Review: I read this on the recommendation of a close girl friend with the warning: "This book will totally remind you of us." She was right on about that. Jackie has just been virtually dumped through email (the nerve!) and the book begins details her journey to singledom acceptance. Her various methods of getting over her relationship (buying knee high boots, dating very inappropriate but doable men, etc) had me giggling as I could relate to some aspect of her experience. Who here has never given a nickname like "Stripe Shirt Guy" to some hottie at the bar that unexplainably always wears a shirt with a stripe on it? Jackie is very likeable, very honest and down to earth. I liked most of her characters (her roommate annoyed me sometimes but what single gal isn't annoyed by a girl who calls her boyfriend Pooh Bear? UGH!) If you're single, I highly recommend this book just so you know you aren't alone when it comes to roaming the jungles of the dating scene.
Rating:
Summary: Amusing though not original
Review: I enjoyed reading this book but it was predictable right down to the last page. This genre is getting played out.
| 
