Life's a Beach | 
 enlarge | Author: Claire Cook
Creator: Kymberly Dakin
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 358072
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0792748549
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781602830417
ASIN: 160283041X
Publication Date: June 5, 2007
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Condition: NEW FACTORY SEALED, 6 CDS
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Product Description
From the bestselling author of Must Love Dogs. Life's a bit of a beach these days for Ginger Walsh, who's single at 41 and living back home in the family FROG (Finished Room Over Garage). Geri, her BlackBerry-obsessed sister, is also nearly off the deep end about her pending fiftieth birthday. Toss in a host of local eccentrics and hilarity ensues! Presented unabridged on 6 CDs.
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 Disappointed August 9, 2008
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Geri and Ginger are sisters and they are polar opposites. Geri is a successful business woman, mother and is rarely seen without her BlackBerry. Ginger is a single 41 year old woman with a job, not a career, and lives over her parents' garage. While Ginger is dealing with her parents decision to sell their house (where will she live?) and her "going-nowhere-fast" relationship with Noah, Geri is planning her big 5-0 birthday party.
I have to say, I didn't enjoy reading this book. The plot was lacking and the characters were easily forgettable.
Much, *much* better. August 3, 2008
This is the second of Ms Cook's novels I've read, after 'Must Love Dogs'. It is a far better accomplishment than that one: here's we have a cohesive storyline, she deals with characters in a much more proficient way, she's able to juggle plotlines that are worth juggling...in the end, everything gels nicely to provide a very light, yet hardly facile read.
Ms Cook has a great way with quips, with snappy dialogue...and this ability is especially well-honed in positively-charged stories. That is, ones where the general tone is one of things working out in the end, rather than some kind of misanthropic exercise.
She's a very good writer. My only 'complaint' would be that she *seems* unwilling to take it to the next level, one that transcends the standard 'chick-lit' category, and takes the tale into something more infused with human complexities and literary nutrition. I hope she decides to stretch a little at some point, because I do believe she has it in her to produce something truly memorable, not simply enjoyable
 Quick and Uncomplicated, Immediately Forgettable July 28, 2008
This book is very light and completely predictable. I think that the new word I've seen thrown around in reviews is "beacher" and this book fits that description perfectly. Don't expect a complex plot, well drawn characters, well executed action, or any surprises. This book is as bland and predictable as white toast from a pop-up toaster. But it isn't bad either, it just is what it is - a beacher. I would try to find a copy from a used source, since this isn't the kind of paperback that you're going to want to hang on to for another read. You will probably enjoy the book while you are reading it but five minutes after you turn the last page you will have forgotten all about it. It just isn't the kind of book that stays with you.
slow and boring July 9, 2008
got this book because of all the local hype being from SE Ma where author is from but wasn't impressed. Also got her latest book and wssn't thrilled with that one either.
Not Bad, But Not That Great June 19, 2008
Not among my favorite books, but okay as a quick read. The narrator, Ginger Walsh, is not an especially endearing character, she's just kind of forgettable. As a matter of fact, all of the players in this book are pretty forgettable. Perhaps, like 'Must Love Dogs', this would make a better movie than book. I'd borrow this one, rather than buy it.
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