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 enlarge | Author: Toni Jordan
Publisher: Sceptre
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 4429
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0340963778
EAN: 9780340963777
ASIN: 0340963778
Publication Date: June 12, 2008
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 Very Funny September 27, 2008
I got this book randomly in a special offer but it was much better than expected. Packaged as 'chick-lit', it's not normally a genre I would pick up but it turned out to be a light, romantic read with depth too.
I chuckled by the second page: Grace is a witty, flawed and likeable and the characters she describes are equally funny such as her mother and psychiatrist and her therapy group of obsessive compulsives. Seamus is the man every girl wants to meet and the romance very sweet. I rooted for Grace and loved how she manages to resist to conform despite the many well-intended pressures around her. Some of the sex-scene info is a little predictable but overall unputdownable. Also reminded me a little of 'The curious incident of the Dog in the Nightime'. Addition
 I liked the concept...good to read something a bit different September 9, 2008
3.5 stars
When Grace met Seamus in the supermarket the story started to get mildly amusing and it really took off for me when Grace started therapy sessions. Until then I found it a little hard to get in to (especially the Nikola Tesla - Graces's hero - parts).
The book is all told in the first person, from Graces's point of view and she is a witty character. Her take on the people she meets, especially in her therapy sessions was an amusing look at how we all imagine therapy sessions would be and I laughed out loud a few times. However, the change in Grace is sad and you long for her to do something about the way her life has changed. The way medication can make people conform into how we think they should behave, yet can change their personality is quite a sobering thought...one thing Grace didn't seem to be able to have for a while.
If you persevere you should find this a lovely tale about the normal things in life and how important they are because they make us who we are.
 Really tried...... September 9, 2008
I really wanted to love this book, an original idea and a likeable character. I have to say i didnt. I didnt hate it but i did find that it dragged a bit and that the story didnt really 'get going' enough for me. It was ok for a different kind of holiday read but it is not one that i would necessarily recommend.
A tribute to OCD September 2, 2008
Often fiction books talking about OCD dont do the illness any justice, formed on stereotypical hand-washers or hoarders etc. However this book is different! finally a book that looks at the emotional pain OCD casuses and shows the hell OCD is to live with. this book is great for OCD sufferers to read and also to publicise the hidden depths of OCD. really enjoyed the book, although i dont know how someone without OCD would view it but having it myself i found myself nodding along to things grace talks about... if only we could all find a seamus to get us through treatment! great book, well worth a read.
Relationships by Numbers August 26, 2008
A very satisfying read. It's a fresh angle on the relationship novel and all the more rewarding for that. The reader is taken into the head of Grace, which proves to be a fascinating and engaging place to be.
We move with her through the months of her relationship with Seamus, empathising more with her experience of therapy than the emotions of the romance. That is not to say that we aren't happy when the emotions develop in the way we would best like.
It becomes quite an agonising experience to feel how the drugs affect her sensitivity and a relief when she decides to stop taking them and achieve her own style of therapy. The gradual decrease of counting and calculation in the narrative is nicely judged to enable the reader to feel her healing.
The book does encourage an awareness of different perceptions that might be harder to achieve in real life, but it is, after all, a story and so brings that familiar warm glow of romance achieved.
Seamus is so well-drawn as a nice guy that the urge to shout at him to see what he's doing to Grace during the therapy section is enormous; an excellent ploy by the author. Larry the niece gives an angle of perception on her aunt that the reader can identify with as preferable.
All this covers a degree of sentiment which is more obvious once the book is read and thought over. That makes it even more satisfying.
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