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Lädt ... Lazy Ways to Make a Living (2002)von Abigail Bosanko
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Romance? Chick lit? Women's lit? No idea. Another book with a potentially interesting idea, but it fell short on the story. A chess-obsessed lexicographer becomes the kept mistress of a stock millionaire who has a secret Cuban wife. The material of Mills&Boon, you might think, but the approach is more chick lit than romance (though not nearly snarky or witty enough). the whole book is rather lukewarm and falls short of each of my feeble expectations. I wanted more everything. more chess, more passion, more flavour, more LIFE! I kept reading, witing for something to happen, for the story to start already. I only finished it because I have nothing else I really want to read right now. And that's a very bad sign. ( ) Romance? Chick lit? Women's lit? No idea. Another book with a potentially interesting idea, but it fell short on the story. A chess-obsessed lexicographer becomes the kept mistress of a stock millionaire who has a secret Cuban wife. The material of Mills&Boon, you might think, but the approach is more chick lit than romance (though not nearly snarky or witty enough). the whole book is rather lukewarm and falls short of each of my feeble expectations. I wanted more everything. more chess, more passion, more flavour, more LIFE! I kept reading, witing for something to happen, for the story to start already. I only finished it because I have nothing else I really want to read right now. And that's a very bad sign. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Have you ever seen The Thomas Crown Affair? Faye Dunaway (sugar pink lips, fabulous nails, playing Black) utterly destroys Steve McQueen (blue eyes, playing White). It's a dazzling performance . . . That film made me get out the chess set I'd abandoned three years earlier. It made me search through East Anglia for a blue-eyed boy suffering from wealth-ennui. I never found one, but my chess and my nails were outstanding for a thirteen year old.' Lexicographer, chess master and hedonist, Rose is down on her luck when she meets Jamie, a guy she beat at chess twelve years previously who has never recovered from losing the game or forgotten the sight of Rose's perfectly manicured nails poised to strike over the chess board. She's destitute, he's loaded and terrified of losing her again. They strike a bargain: in return for chess he will keep her. What is it like being a kept woman in the 21st century? Rose is about to find out. She's also about to learn that disguising your moves in chess can lead to victory, but doing the same thing in love leads to disaster. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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