Boyfriend School
by Sarah Bird
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Author: Sarah BirdEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1989-02-01
ISBN: 0385246943
Number of pages: 339
Publisher: Doubleday
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Book Review: Keeps you laughing and restores your faith in true love!
Summary: 5 Stars
What more could you ask for!?!? This light, amusing tale alternately pokes fun at romance novels AND has you believing in them! The ULTIMATE read for any smart, single woman navigating dating, careers, and a cast of well-meaning friends constantly trying to set you up with Mr. Right. You'll be rooting for the lead character Gretchen, a twenty-something photo-journalist trying to carve out a career AND a relationship at a small Texas newspaper. An assignment to cover a romance novelists convention starts as a target for her sarcasm and cynical feelings about the myth of true love. What it leads to is a delicious string of events that includes one simple, plain, kind of nerdy nice guy, and one sexy, exotic motorcycle-riding god! The result has Gretchen considering that perhaps, maybe, just this once, it really is possible to get the happily-ever-after ending. More than once you'll probably muse that this book reads like your own diary of failed attempts at love --except they read as a lot more charming in "The Boyfriend School!" But the book and its characters' stories are more than fluff. The feelings and actions displayed by Gretchen as she meets and mingles with romance novelists, philandering boyfriends, and one Truly Nice Guy are so real and engaging and thought-provoking that you'll end up considering your own dating life in a new light. "The Boyfriend School" is an absolute must-read for women who want to keep their sense of humor in the face of yet another bad date. I've given copies of this book to so many women friends that certain catch-phrases in the book have become part of our shared secret lingo! It's a winner!
Summary of Boyfriend School
Gretchen Griner is an underpaid, underappreciated photographer for the Austin (that?s Texas) Grackle, part-time lover of Peter Overton Treadwell III (known as ?Trout?), and major consumer of Cup O? Soup. That is, until she meets Lizzie Potts?otherwise known as Viveca Lamoureaux, romance writer extraordinaire. Lizzie has a plan for Gretchen?s life?and it includes Lizzie?s brother Gus. But Gretchen has her own plan, and it does not feature a ?wispy goon? named Gus. Of course, fate also has a plan for Gretchen, and it doesn?t care what Gretchen wants. So Lizzie will give Gretchen Gus, Gus will give Gretchen the man of her dreams, and among this oddball cast of marvelous misfits, someone just may discover the secret to true romance.United States Books
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