This is a light, frothy, summer beach book. I found out about it from my "book-of-the-day" calendar, and it was a fun, fast read. It's told completly through e-mails, answering machine messages, IM's, journal entries, and other media (like notes slid under the door). Occasionally, this feels a little contrived, but mostly it's just fun and funny.It's about Kate (a sweet, innocent girl from Kentucky, whom you could easily see as another Anne Hathaway character) who works in human resources for a T.O.D. (tyrannical office despot). She's trying to move on from a ten year relationship with Dale, an up-and-coming rock musician who is rather clueless and afraid of commitment. (He reminds me of the guy who marries Lane on Gilmore Girls.) The crux of the story is her budding relationship with Mitch, a nice lawyer whose family really puts the "fun" is "dysfunctional" (at least for those of us reading the book, not for Mitch).
The plot wasn't particularly original (very much Working Girl, which it even mentions), but it goes so fast that it's hard to disengage from it. And the characters are entertaining.
PG-13: a lot of references to sex, but nothing "on scene," some language. No violence at all. A lesbian character (addressing more the difficulties of "coming out" rather than sexuality).
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