The devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something "singleton" on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement.
6 p.m. Completely exhausted by entire day of date-preparation. Being a woman is worse than being a farmer there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done: legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, skin exfoliated and moisturized, spots cleansed, roots dyed, eyelashes tinted, nails filed, cellulite massaged, stomach muscles exercised. The whole performance is so highly tuned you only need to neglect it for a few days for the whole thing to go to seed. Sometimes I wonder what I would be like if left to revert to nature — with a full beard and handlebar moustache on each shin, Dennis Healey eyebrows, face a graveyard of dead skin cells, spots erupting, long curly fingernails like Struwelpeter, blind as bat and stupid runt of species as no contact lenses, fla... (查看原文)
This book took my mind off agitated fantasizing of Christmas for one whole day, and, in a positive way, used up a large percent of my spare time(which were mostly spent watching all sorts of American tv series, or cooking merely edible macaroni, or msn ch...
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7.55 a.m. Open wardrobe. Stare at clothes. 8 a.m. Select shirt. Try to find black Lycra miniskirt. Pull clothes out of bottom of wardrobe in quest for skirt. Go through drawers and search behind bedroom chair. Go through ironing basket. Go through dirty li...
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0 有用 cantabile 2009-04-23 10:42:47
v. British~
2 有用 舒璇 2020-03-02 00:45:02
看书就知道bj是个毛毛躁躁真实可爱的人,值得mark darcy。 but I also deserve a mark darcy!!!!
3 有用 鱼更 2017-01-16 10:19:13
一些非常精彩有趣的桥段,最后变得有点long-winded和overdramatic. 作者显然极其善于描写都市大龄单身女青年的内心世界,很容易理解这本小说为什么会取得commercial success。
0 有用 rachelsunn 2012-11-21 13:00:06
A quick, fun, hilariously enjoyable read! Where to find such a hopeless yet incredibly adorable creature anyway.
0 有用 Irisabsolute 2009-09-01 13:57:57
funny. Ms. BJ is really cute.