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Title: Life Skills by Katie Fforde ISBN: 0-312-97946-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 15 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun, cosy, light romantic fiction, but not her best
Comment: Katie Fforde does a great job of writing smart, funny yet sweet romantic fiction. "Life Skills" tells the story of Julia Fairfax, who makes some dramatic changes in her life -- quitting her job, dumping her fiance, subletting her house -- then takes an unusual job as a cook on a canal boat while she sorts things out. Too much canal boat lingo and too many technical details about boating threatened to overwhelm the story before it got going, but I persevered, and eventually got hooked. Although there's a lot to recommend this book if you're looking for a pleasant read that is romantic yet real and intelligent, it's not Katie Fforde's best. I found the characters a wee bit predictable (e.g. stuffy snobbish matron, dull conventional ex-fiance, daddy's little princess); and the plot meandering. Perhaps I've merely been spoiled by Ms. Fforde's earlier efforts, notably "Stately Pursuits" and "Wild Designs," and you might want to check them out first.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best of Fforde's Bunch
Comment: This was the first Katie Fforde that I ever read, and I found it a delightful romp, full of entertaining details about running a hotel boat through England's canals. Delicious diction too, replete with modern British vernacular which will both puzzle and amuse American readers. The book is marred by a main character who is as frustrating as Kissy Mellors in Tabitha King's Survivor, unwilling to recognize a true Prince Charming when she seems him. Thinking I had found a worthwhile new author, I read Fforde's Wild Designs and Stately Pursuits and was quite disappointed -- her protagonists are all cut from the same cloth, and both books lacked the spark of Life Skills.
Rating: 5
Summary: laughed out loud
Comment: This book is not for everyone but if you enjoy tongue in cheek humor, great characters, a good setting and a romance that is not jaded you will enjoy it. Makes a great listen on tape also.
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Title: Second Thyme Around by Katie Fforde ISBN: 0312980345 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 07 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Stately Pursuits by Katie Fforde ISBN: 0312206763 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Wild Designs : A Novel By The Author Of Stately Pursuits by Katie Fforde ISBN: 0312190328 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Artistic License by Katie Fforde ISBN: 031299141X Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 13 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Highland Fling by Katie Fforde ISBN: 0312317689 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 20 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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