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Friday, July 24, 2009

A Girl With A Huge Mouth





Yeah, if you're looking for that, try reading Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot. It's one of her adult novels, though, so BEWARE the inappropriate scenes.
All the "inappropriateness" aside, this book was really good.
We start off with Lizzy Nichols, who has dropped thirty pounds since the last time she saw her adorable British BF. In fact, she's going there to visit him right after her graduation party. But at the party, she gets some bad news: she hasn't really graduated college! She has to write a thesis, which she neglected to do, so while she's in England, she has work to do to complete her self-developed major in History of Fashion. So she gets to England and discovers: her boyfriend's a gambling addict who wanted to "borrow" money from her to pay for his matriculation fees! Actually, he was trying to pretend he was unemployed to get dole benefits, but Lizzie accidentally spilled the beans to the guy behind the counter there. Good for her. Lizzie decides she can't stand any more of her loser boyfriend Andy and breaks it off with him. Then she gets on the first train to France, where her best friend Shari is staying in a fancy chateau.
On the train, though, things take a turn. *plot twist!* Lizzy ends up crying her eyes out to a complete stranger who happens to be the only American on the train. She tells him all about her thesis, and Andy, and all her problems, thinking she'll never see him again, so what the heck? Little does she know he is actually Luke, the owner of the chateau her friends are staying at. And he's surprisingly cute. Unfortunately, he's taken, by the spawn of evil known in this book as Dominique. Things can only get worse.
Meg Cabot always has good books, but this is one of my favorites. There are also excerpts between the chapters of Lizzy's thesis paper. These excerpts are hilarious! Here's one:

Clothing. Why do we wear it? Many people believe that we wear clothing out of modesty. In ancient civilizations, however, clothing was developed not to cover our private parts from view, but merely to keep the body warm. In other cultures, clothing was thought to protect its wearers from magic, while in still others clothing served merely ornamental or display purposes.
In this thesis, I hope to explore the history of clothing-- or fashion-- starting with ancient man, who wore animal hides for warmth, to modern man, or woman, some of whom wear small strips of material betwen their buttocks (see: thong) for reasons no one has yet been able to adequately explain to this author.


Isn't that classic Cabot? This book is very hilarious. The excerpt above proves it, and that's her being serious! This is a must-read for anybody needing romantic comedy in their lives. Namely, everyone.

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