Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts

1 May 2012

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

Title: Juliet, Naked
Author: Nick Hornby
Blurb: Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she'd like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked, Is she really going to find real, proper, feel-it-deep-down-in-your-boots love on a damp and windy seafront? Or perhaps she should follow her heart and pursue Tucker, the reclusive American rock star, who keeps emailing her his smart advice.

But between Annie and her second chance lie a few obstacles. There's Malcolm, the world's most judgemental therapist, and Barnesy, the north's most extrovert dancer. There's what men and women will do and won't do for love. And of course, there's Tucker...

Hilarious and tender, Juliet, Naked will move you in ways both profound and surprising.

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29 April 2012

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Title: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Author: Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Blurb: Nick's just seen the girl who dumped him walk in with a new guy. What else can he do but ask the strange girl next to him to be his girlfriend for the next five minutes?

Norah would do anything to avoid conversation with not not-friend girl who dumped Nick ... and to get over the Evil Ex whom Norah never really totally dumped. What else can she do but answer Nick's question by making out with him?

With one electric, unexpected kiss, the five-minute couple of Nick and Norah set off on an uncharted adventure called the "first date" that will turn into an infinite night of falling in and out (and in and out, and maybe in and maybe out) of love. Theirs is a first date of music, laughter, heartache, confusion, passion, taxi driver wisdom, and a jacket named Salvatore. And of course a killer soundtrack.

As Nick and Norah wander through the middle-of-the-night mystic maze of Manhattan, they share the kind of night you want to never end, where every minute counts and every moment flickers between love and disaster.

Adapted into a motion picture starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings.

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Being Elizabeth Bennet by Emma Campbell Webster

Title: Being Elizabeth Bennet: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
Author: Emma Campbell Webster
Blurb: Elizabeth Bennet is the wittiest and most attractive heroine in English literature. And in Being Elizabeth Bennet, you have the opportunity to become her.

You will be faced with delicate challenges and dangerous choices. Whether you accept Mr Darcy the first time he professes his attachment, decide to elop with Mr Wickham or succeed in avoiding a murderous Lady Catherine de Bourgh, this is your chance to rewrite Jane Austen.

However, choose with caution: Being Elizabeth Bennet is packed with character and plot twists that may thwart your chances of happy union with Pemberley's most eligible bachelor. You must complete five stages - and successfully negotiate your way through Austen's five other novels - before you can choose to accept Mr Darcy. But if your fate does not appeal, simply return to page one and create another new Jane Austen adventure.

Based on the popular books of Jane Austen.

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