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Summary: Must have been the suspense that kept me reading!!!!
Review: "Name Dropping" was good. Nancy Stern and her nemesis Nancy Stern both live in the same building. A surprise Christmas gift sends the unpopular Nancy Stern into a threatening situation. Her boyfriend is hiding a secret job and the other Nancy Stern is killed. This book is not your typical fiction and I do believe that is what kept me so interested.
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Summary: If Only I Could Change Places with Someone!
Review: Apparently I'm one of the few who have never read anything by Jane Heller before. I saw this book in hardback and decided to wait for paperback, by doing this I missed out on a good story.Nancy Stern is a preschool teacher who thinks she leads a boring life. She's divorced, seldom dates, and generally spends her nights at home reading and going out with other single friends. She has an everyday life, no excitement-that is until the other Nancy Stern moves into her building. The other Nancy Stern has it all. She single, plenty of money, tons of interesting men in her life, and she interviews celebrities while traveling all over the world. Mix-ups begin to happen mail delivered to the wrong person, flowers, and strange men calling wanting dates. At first it's fun, then it isn't. Envy slowly turns to jealously and the Nancy Stern who thinks she has a boring life decides to accept a blind date calling for the other Nancy Stern. Then the fun begins. This probably sounds confusing, but it isn't. The book is quite comical in parts, suspenseful in others, but mainly just fun. If you've ever wished you could change places with someone, even for a day, you might want to read this.
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Summary: What a fun read!
Review: As a busy mom of newborn twins, this book offers comic relief in a hectic life! I am now a huge Jane Heller fan ~~ it seems most of her books are fun and saucy reads! I never used to like fluff ~~ but Heller's books are more than just fluff ~~ it's full of mystery and fun! Pre-school teacher Nancy Stern keeps getting mail, drycleaning items (like a fur coat!), phone calls, roses meant for her neighbor Nancy Stern! On a blind date that she accepted even though it was really for her neighbor, Nancy finds her Mr. Right and was led on a merry chase. Stolen jewelry, a neglected child, a best friend with zany advices and romance make up for a wonderful and quick read! I wouldn't hesitate picking this book up at all ~~ Heller does it again! 10-28-02
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Summary: Jane Heller has done it again.
Review: As she did in her previous books, Jane Heller in her latest book, Name Dropping, provides her readers with a light and witty reading experience. Nancy Stern, a divorcee living in New York, spends her days as a nursery school teacher at the prestigious Small Blessing school. She spends her nights with friends listening to them chart their romances or lack of romances and wonders if she'll ever meet Mr. Right among the play-doh. Then out of the blue she begins receiving invitations to society eveneings, phone calls from strange men and even beautiful bouquets of flowers. As she wonders what's going on, the mystery is solved when she learns that the celebrity interviewer and writer, another Nancy Stern, has moved into her building. And then when a man calls asking for a blind date with the other Nancy Stern, nursery school teacher Nancy decides its time to seize the man and spice up her life. What ensues is a comedy of errors and intellignece which only a witty writer like Jane Heller can deliver to her readers. This is a fun book, most likely meant to be read this summer on the beach. But remember when you laugh out loud, others around you may be wondering why. Have fun with this book.
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Summary: it's not just a coincidence
Review: both nancy sterns in jane heller's latest book may find themselves being confused with one another with hilarious results.but it's no coincidence to those of us who always are waiting for her latest book,to find she has worked her magic once again. she has the most ironic and hip sense of humor,and her "throw away"comments on the foibles of our current society are priceless.i bet she would be fun to have dinner with.
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Summary: Drop into someone else's life.....
Review: Everyone at some point in their life has thought what if, just for one day they could be in so-and-so's shoes. This book delightfully explores that possibility. It begins with the strange coincidence that two very different women, both named Nancy Stern, live in the same apt. building. When Nancy Stern the school teacher decides to pose as Nancy Stern the celebrity journalist, wacky shennanigans ensue leading to a murder. The characters are extremely well laid out and the plot is not at all predictable. I read this book at the beach last week and could not put it down. I HAD to know what would unfold for Nancy! You'll want to know, too.
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Summary: NAME DROPPING
Review: Funny and witty. I enjoyed Sis Boom Ba and loved this book even more. It is fast paced and a real page turner. I can't wait to read another of her books!
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Summary: Very cute!
Review: Heroine: average What if two women with the same name lived in the same apartment building? Invariably they would accidentally swap mail and phone messages, but men . . . and murders? When Bill Harris, with his extremely "nice" voice, calls Nancy Stern the disillusioned preschool teacher for a blind date she knows with that certain sinking feeling that this call is really meant for the glamorous freelance journalist in the penthouse, just like all the others. All right, so she didn't want to keep the other Nancy's mile long credit card bills, and she absolutely couldn't keep the fabulous fur coat that had been mistakenly delivered to her apartment. But jet set Nancy had so many men wooing her, would she really miss just one tall, handsome, sexy jeweler?? Unfortunately preschool Nancy gets more than she bargains for in this particular swap. When the other Nancy turns up dead preschool Nancy thanks her lucky stars just this once for being the "wrong Nancy". But when her purse is snatched, her apartment is ransacked, and her new boyfriend's mysterious past begins to reveal itself, she begins to wonder if she was so lucky after all.
What worked for me:
I love Heller's writing style. She's got a great knack for coming up with pithy phrases, such as labeling preschool Nancy as "The Brunette Who Keeps Her Head".
This novel particularly resonated with me because I've worked with children on and off for years, so the preschool scenes were a bit of a flashback for me. Size-wise Nancy was a comfortable sounding average, who was fine with her figure until she met the other Nancy Stern, with her impossibly long legs and huge...[chest].
What didn't work for me:
I was sick to my stomach the entire time plain Nancy was trying to pass herself off as "fancy Nancy". I would hate trying to do something like that myself. (Odd, but I don't recall feeling that way when I read Goldsmith's "Switcheroo", and in that case the identity swap took place over a much longer period in the novel. Go figure!) I kinda felt bad for glitzy Nancy, snarky woman that she was. Her life obviously didn't make her happy, her death was untimely, and she faded away from the novel once her purpose had been served, as did her mysterious daughter. Poor things.
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Fast-paced "Name Dropping" was a joy to read, but didn't quite live up to my expectations, which were set very high after reading Heller's "Princess Charming". Warning: This book has some steamy moments and coarse words within its pages. If you liked "Name Dropping" you might also enjoy "Crazy For You", "Switcheroo", "Princess Charming", "Infernal Affairs", "Plum Girl", The Stephanie Plum mystery series, "Welcome to Temptation", "Faking It", "Heaven in Your Eyes", "Getting Lucky", "Fast Women", or "Lola Carlyle Reveals All".
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Summary: Very cute!
Review: Heroine: average What if two women with the same name lived in the same apartment building? Invariably they would accidentally swap mail and phone messages, but men . . . and murders? When Bill Harris, with his extremely "nice" voice, calls Nancy Stern the disillusioned preschool teacher for a blind date she knows with that certain sinking feeling that this call is really meant for the glamorous freelance journalist in the penthouse, just like all the others. All right, so she didn't want to keep the other Nancy's mile long credit card bills, and she absolutely couldn't keep the fabulous fur coat that had been mistakenly delivered to her apartment. But jet set Nancy had so many men wooing her, would she really miss just one tall, handsome, sexy jeweler?? Unfortunately preschool Nancy gets more than she bargains for in this particular swap. When the other Nancy turns up dead preschool Nancy thanks her lucky stars just this once for being the "wrong Nancy". But when her purse is snatched, her apartment is ransacked, and her new boyfriend's mysterious past begins to reveal itself, she begins to wonder if she was so lucky after all.
What worked for me:
I love Heller's writing style. She's got a great knack for coming up with pithy phrases, such as labeling preschool Nancy as "The Brunette Who Keeps Her Head".
This novel particularly resonated with me because I've worked with children on and off for years, so the preschool scenes were a bit of a flashback for me. Size-wise Nancy was a comfortable sounding average, who was fine with her figure until she met the other Nancy Stern, with her impossibly long legs and huge...[chest].
What didn't work for me:
I was sick to my stomach the entire time plain Nancy was trying to pass herself off as "fancy Nancy". I would hate trying to do something like that myself. (Odd, but I don't recall feeling that way when I read Goldsmith's "Switcheroo", and in that case the identity swap took place over a much longer period in the novel. Go figure!) I kinda felt bad for glitzy Nancy, snarky woman that she was. Her life obviously didn't make her happy, her death was untimely, and she faded away from the novel once her purpose had been served, as did her mysterious daughter. Poor things.
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Fast-paced "Name Dropping" was a joy to read, but didn't quite live up to my expectations, which were set very high after reading Heller's "Princess Charming". Warning: This book has some steamy moments and coarse words within its pages. If you liked "Name Dropping" you might also enjoy "Crazy For You", "Switcheroo", "Princess Charming", "Infernal Affairs", "Plum Girl", The Stephanie Plum mystery series, "Welcome to Temptation", "Faking It", "Heaven in Your Eyes", "Getting Lucky", "Fast Women", or "Lola Carlyle Reveals All".
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Summary: Like a fun Roller Coaster Ride!
Review: I actually enjoyed this book a lot more then I thought I would! "Name Dropping" is about Nancy Stern, a Pre-school teacher who spends her days with 4-year olds and her Saturday nights at home. Along comes a new tenant in her building that is blond, leggy, silicon filled AND interviews celebrities for a magazine. Oh, and her name? Nancy Stern! Pre-school Nancy is suddenly deluged with phone calls, flowers and mail for Glamorous Nancy. Just when she thinks it's all too much to bear along comes Bill Harris, an eligible bachelor who was calling for the other Nancy but Pre-school Nancy decides to go on the date instead and so begins the roller coaster ride of this book. Lots of twists and turns. Perfect book to take to the beach. A light, fun read!
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