In Her Shoes : A Novel

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Summary: On the Beach
Review: I read this book on my vacation to Jamaica. It was the perfect book to lay on the beach and read. It took me a few chapters to get into the book, but then I was home free. Loved it!

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Summary: Entertaining
Review: It is a fun novel ~~ one based on two sisters and their long-lost grandma with a family secret that only Grandma has the answers to. The two sisters, Maggie and Rose, raised by a grieving father and a distant step-mother, grew up different as sisters can be. Rose is the older sister, successful and one with the brains. Maggie is the scatterbrained younger sister with the looks to envy for. This novel is their stories ~~ fun, sometimes complicated and entertaining.

This is a perfect summer read ~~ it's an entertaining tale about two sisters who never thought they'd be friends since they are so different. But deep down inside, they began to realize that they may be a like after all.

So if you're looking for a fun book to read on the beach or on some dreary winter night ~~ this book is the perfect escape! It's enjoyable and funny in some parts! And sometimes, it will make you long for a sister as fun as Maggie and as responsible as Rose.

1-10-05

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Summary: in her shoes-by sarah
Review: Rose feller is a 30-year-old lawyer for a big law firm in Philadelphia. She graduated from an ivy-league college with high grades. Anyone who met her would think her life was great-but it wasn't! She had a drop-dead gorgeous younger sister named Maggie who had so many boyfriends one time or another, she could no longer count. Maggie was a party-hardy bartender. Her beauty and fashion sense made rose jealous. Maggie's life wasn't perfect though. She was dyslexic and dropped out of college. These two ladies had nothing in common. Rose had to bail her sister out all the time. She finally got sick of it and kicked her to the curb. Maggie ran away, and finally got in touch with rose when she had made it all the way to Florida to see their grandma who they both didn't eve know they had. The sisters reunite to figure out family secrets. The book was okay and I hope that Jennifer Weiner makes a sequel so I can figure out how rose and Maggie made out in the end.

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Summary: Sisterly Conflicts Explored
Review: I bogged down part way; perhaps the sisters' estrangement was too harrowing. Picked it up again after the holiday and zipped through to the end. This story of two sisters and their resentments starts out strongly. The abrupt career change of Rose from lawyer to dog-walker after being crossed in love was interesting. Maggie's evolution from unemployable dyslexic bombshell to homeless at Harvard to darling of the geriatic set stretched the imagination.
This had a lot to recommend it, but also drawbacks in its writing. The incidents, dialogue, and interpersonal relations captured the modern problems confronting today's contemporary young women in an urban setting.
update 1/28/05: I just finished Good In Bed by Weiner. Enjoyed it much more than this one.

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Summary: Pitiful
Review: This book is absolutely pitiful. The only thing about it that I liked was Ella. At least she was an honest and sympathetic character. Maggie and Rose were total clichés and I intensely disliked both of them. I have always understood that when I read a book, I must suspend disbelief at times, but this is ridiculous. Rose is one of the stupidest characters I've read in a book in a long time. Sister or not, if someone is living off of you rent free and stealing from you as well, throw them out!! Am I honestly supposed to believe that Maggie, a dyslexic who could not handle reading a teleprompter, is hanging out a Princeton, reading Great Expectations and Romeo and Juliet? Oh, and Maggie and Jim having sex - who didn't see that from a mile down the road? Also, I could understand Rose's changing of careers if the author had made a point of suggesting Rose was disgruntled with her job as a lawyer, but no such indication was ever given. This book totally insults the intelligence of its readers. A waste of paper.