Girls' Night In
21 TALES FROM THE HOTTEST FEMALE WRITERS In this must-have short-story collection, Jennifer Weiner revisits on of her Good in Bed characters (and tells the story from, ahem, his point of view), Jill A. Davis (Girl's Poker Night) offers darkly humorous take on starting over in New York and working with "the Elizabeths" and Alisa Valdes-Rodriquez (The Dirty Girls Social Club) muses on how different the words lady and woman are when paired with cat. Girl's Night In features stories about growing up, growing out of, moving out, moving on, falling apart and getting it all together. So turn off your cell phone and curl up on the couch: this is one Girl's Night In you won't want to miss. Contains: Party Planner by Meg Cabot Traveling Light by Carole Matthews Cat Lady by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Changing People by Sophie Kinsella New York by Jill A. Davis Revenge by Emily Barr Here Comes Harry by Jessica Adams Know It All by Sarah Mlynowski In Agony by Isabel Wolff Dating the Enemy by Lauren Henderson From This Moment by Megan McCafferty What Goes Around by Louise Bagshawe Rudy by Lisa Jewell The Truth Is Out There by Marian Keyes Here We Are by Lynda Curnyn Siren Songs by Stella Duffy The Marrying Kind by Anna Maxted Don't You Know Who I Am? by Adèle Lang Good Men by Jennifer Weiner Dougie, Spoons and the Aquarium Solarium by Jenny Colgan Acting Strangely by Chris Manby
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Romance · Fiction
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Dark tone · Steady pace
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-3732-5074-5
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL9875380M
A more thoughtful way into this book
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
- How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
- Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?
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