101. Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man, Claudia Carroll

It's one of the most enjoyable, entertaining, funniest, unpredicatble chick lit that I've ever read. I really love it! It was about a woman who went on a course to find a husband, and she had to contact all her ex-boyfriends to learn from mistakes and work out where she went wrong.


AGE, MY OLD ATTITUDE
In an ideal world, my ideal type of man would be aged somewhere between thirty five and forty five. Fifty's kind of getting on a bit and i'm afraid that if i went out with anyone younger than thirty, there's a good chance I could be mistaken for his mother.

MY NEW IMPROVED ATTITUDE
From here on in, any heterosexual male age between eighteen and eighty is within my target age range. As Jamie says, if a man has his own breathing apparatus, that's considered a bonus. Even if he has a buss pass, a pension, and has to go anywhere with a nurse in tow, so be it.

PROFESSION, MY OLD ATTITUDE
Work is an important part of my life, and if i'm really honest I would have to admit that I like a mna who enjoys what he does and s good at it. In my experience, they tend to be the best adjusted ones, Besides, let's be brutally honest. As Rachel says, would I have anything in common with the man who sweeps the streets?

MY NEW IMPROVED ATTITUDE
From now on, the man who, although trained to dig a hole in the road, is now reduced to holding up the 'STOP/GO' sign at roadworks is on the menu.

EDUCATION, MY OLD ATTITUDE
Being completely upfront, I have to admit that I do like a guy to have a few letters after his name.

MY NEW IMPROVED ATTITUDE
As long as a guy has letters in his name, he's a potential husband

and so on. As I said, SO FUNNY. The ending was very nice too, with no predictable and typical ending in most chick lit. Love it.

100. The Naked Season, Kira Cochrane

BORIIIINNNGGGG.
Interesting thoughts about feminisms thougt.

"The fact is that women are always going to be more nurturig than men. We're built with wombs, we're built to incubate, to care for other people. Our sexual nature is receptive, accomodating. Men... well, men are something very different. Men were made to penetrate. Sex, whether it's rape or love or plain unsullied fucking,.. but it's nothing but a way for a man to colonise a woman's body. both in the act and then in the possible consequences."

99. A Day Late and a Dollar Short, Terry McMillan

A tale of a Black family's tragedies and triumphs. A little hard to read because each chapter have different character's point of view and the book was written in a 'black' American English. It took awhile before I get used to the language. A story of a woman who was seperated from her husband, and had 3 daughters and one son. They all had different characters, personalities, stories, and views of things.

98. The Man on the Boulevard, Georges Simenon

Detectives story series. Short, page-turner and overall good read.

97. Tallulahland, Lynn Messina

Short but nice typical chick lit. A story of a girl who resented her father for overcoming his grief for the death of his wife too quickly. So she did what she believed would upset her father, which is taking a boring admin work when they all knew she had a talent. She also had a male buddy who sticked with her through good and bad. So the story was about her journey in finding and realising her dream, accomplishing them, and score a lover too on the way there. As I said, typical chick lit. Quite nice though.

96. Plan B, Emily Barr

It was an interesting and atypical boy meets girl story. It was a novel about a woman who fell in love with a man she thought very highly of, that she didnt deserved him. The truth is, the man was actually married to another woman. The man had kids with both women, and they did not have a clue that their partner/ husband has another family. So he spent half of his time with family A, and another half with family B. And then he shifted his partner and his kid to another country because he couldnt have them living so closely to his wife and other kid together anymore.

"Tearing Emma away from her home in Brighton had been painful. She had been so settled there that he had never imagined he would succeed in doing it, but he had no choice... Jo was stronger than he was, and he was stronger than Emma, so it made sense that Emma was the one who had to be shifted.

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Luckily, Emma did not do screaming. She would go to any lengths to avoid confrontation, and this was what made his lifestyle possible. He castigated himself again, for takig advantage of her sweet nature.

... Jo, did do confrontation. He like the fact that she took no crap from him. He also like the fact that Emma always wanted to make everything smooth ad, as she constantly said, magical. He loved them both, although they were so different, and felt comfortable with them both, and both made them happy.

Nice ending. It was an easy and interesting read. I couldnt put it down.

95. Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts

It's a very big book. It's an account of a Australian heroin addict who escaped prison and travelled to India, and lived in a slum and did wonderful things when he was there. But there were other accounts on his relationship with the woman he loved, the complications that relationship brought into his life, the friendships he had with different people in India, the gangsters/ mafia he worked with, the works he did for them. In some ways, I think the book is abit too much. There was no climax... too messy. There were so many things happening. I've lost interest after half way through the book. But it was so beautifully written, which was the reason why I persevered and finished reading the book. My fav quote:

"She loved the guy. She did it for him She would have done anything for him. Some women are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and our independence. After awhile you start throwing people out - your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of girls here. I think that's why I'm sick of love."