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Babyface for non-msners!

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 20:58

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:45

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mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:45

i can't seem to get into anything at the moment in a big way. enjoyed The Girl with the pearl earring - but only enjoyed wasn't really into it. just starting Lonely Bones. a friend took her 2 to soft play 3 mornings running she was so into it!

edam · 21/07/2004 21:44

Agree with wsm and mummysurfer, felt obliged to like it as had won a copy (thanks MN) but actually found it tedious and irritating. Also agree about the strange lack of emotion (or humour); she doesn't have any feeling for anyone, including her baby, and neither do the other characters. None of them are convincing or well-drawn. Maybe it's because I don't usually read Jane Green, etc. but the 'chick lit' (hate that phrase) that I have come across has been amusing. This book isn't.

johno · 21/07/2004 21:44

well i have a 13 month old boy and could do with some tips

wickedstepmum · 21/07/2004 21:43

I imagine that if we could manage MSN we'd have more of a sequential conversation...but I must say how much I agree with you mummysurfer. Much more info was needed

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:43

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mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:42

hee hee heee johno
what are you looking for and we'll point you in the right direction

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:42

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wickedstepmum · 21/07/2004 21:41

Actually, I like all sorts of books. Patrick O'Brian is an all-time favourite and Middlemarch is the book I'm taking with me when I go on Desert Island Discs. My DH has just given me Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair which, so far, is brilliant. Lots of time shifts and changes/alterations in/to classic literature. Our heroine is called Thursday Next which must rank amongst the all-time great names like Ford Prefect. And how about the writer Millon de Floss!?

mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:41

no, not one i'll be looking out for.
i needed more info about her character, his character. well tbh a bit more info on everything

johno · 21/07/2004 21:39

well, i never read the book, so i cant talk about it, which means i in wrong forum, ?

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:38

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:37

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PicadillyCircus · 21/07/2004 21:37

Not sure I would read a sequel to be honest.

wickedstepmum · 21/07/2004 21:36

I thought the funniest part of "I don't know how she does it" was the 'spilt raisins' by the bin in the kitchen

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:35

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PicadillyCircus · 21/07/2004 21:33

I agree with mummysurfer as well - it is quite unusual for me to have to make an effort to finish reading a book.

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:31

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mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:31

johno, what can we do to help? why are you confused?

mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:31

i'm with wsm, won the book so feel i had to like it, but have to admit to being a bit disappointed. got into it fairly quickly but then it did seem to dry up. i had to make myself finish it.
didn't like the ending? was there one or did it just end?

johno · 21/07/2004 21:31

im confused help?

PicadillyCircus · 21/07/2004 21:28

The modelling part definitely put me off modelling

(And I like I don't know how she does it by the way )

wickedstepmum · 21/07/2004 21:27

I won a copy which was fun and very gratifying but it makes me terribly guilty to say that I didn?t enjoy Babyface?the first problem for me is a personal idiosyncrasy. I don?t like novels written in the present tense. This isn?t happening now ? it happened then. But, much more importantly, I couldn?t identify with the heroine at all. There is a strange lack of emotion throughout the book. What is she really doing with this man? There isn?t a hint anywhere that she even fancies him enough to sleep with him let alone have his baby. Incidentally, he might be a bit boring but I wouldn?t mind meeting him ? he sounded a truly kind and decent man; pretty rare! Her pre-baby life is never really explained. Was she part of the magazine life or not? If she was then the baby modelling shouldn?t be such a surprise. And the trip to France was utterly incongrous. I am sorry not to like this book. It seems very unfair to criticise someone who has succeeded in having a book published ? by that very fact alone they are already a better writer than I am ? but I don?t think this is very good. Just before this one I read a couple of books by Marian Keyes which really impressed me. Her books start off as fairly shallow chick-lit and then gradually reveal more and more character and story. Excellent.

mummysurfer · 21/07/2004 21:21

the modelling bit made me feel sick, kept htinking NOOOO don't do it

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Yorkiegirl · 21/07/2004 21:20

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