Claire Cook
Auteur de Must Love Dogs
A propos de l'auteur
A teacher of physical fitness and creative writing, Claire Cook has had previous stints as a copywriter, radio continuity director, garden designer, and dance choreographer. She lives in Scituate, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children.
Œuvres de Claire Cook
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reboot Your Life: 101 Stories about Finding a New Path to Happiness (2014) 22 exemplaires
Never Too Late: Your Roadmap to Reinvention (without getting lost along the way) (2014) 16 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Contributeur — 389 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 02-14
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Scituate, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Syracuse University (BA|Film, Creative Writing)
- Organisations
- Cape Cod Writer's Center
- Courte biographie
- Bestselling author Claire Cook teaches workshops for aspiring writers and women coming into their own at midlife, and has had previous stints as a fitness teacher and dance and aerobics choreographer. She lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts, often called the Irish Riviera, with her husband, where they are occasionally visited by their borderline adult children and their laundry.
Membres
Critiques
Life's a Beach par Claire Cook
Ok for a mindless and predictable romance. I liked it well enough to give it 3 stars.
It's just OK. Kind of amusing but nothing particularly memorable. I think I was more tolerant of it than I should have been because I have great affection for walking and group exercise.
Characters poorly developed, timeline of story very compressed for no particular reason. Overly obsessed with lavender farms.
It's really not a good book but I did finish it and I don't hate it. I reserve one star for books I really dislike or that I can't finish.
Best part is the cover.
Characters poorly developed, timeline of story very compressed for no particular reason. Overly obsessed with lavender farms.
It's really not a good book but I did finish it and I don't hate it. I reserve one star for books I really dislike or that I can't finish.
Best part is the cover.
Don't look at me like that. Sure, 3 stars means I did like this book, and I'm not even in the target demographic (a bit too male). I'm allowed to read something different once in a while. And enjoy it. So there. Besides, I like Dancing with the Stars.
What worked for me: The deadpan voice of the first-person narrator. Given her messed up personal situation and her hapless reactions, she could have some across as whining. By keeping her reasonably level-headed, the author makes it possible for us to stick with her. And by not making her too empowered or snarky, we don't get put off, either. Beyond that, the prose, dialog, settings, and descriptions are all first-rate. There is nothing to complain about in terms of basic writing skills.
What didn't really work for me, once it occurred to me, is believing that this powerful, effective personal assistant for a popular pop figure is so easily reduced to a hapless, clueless shlub. I was also put off by the completely inane relationship she has with her brother and the rest of her family. Sure, this is the source of conflict for the story. But this is one of those conflicts that could be resolved in about two minutes if just one of the participants would act like a grown up, instead of a thirteen-year-old.
As for all of the rigmarole dealing with Dancing with the Stars and Hollywood: this is reasonably believable and mostly fun. In some ways, I wish it could have been richer. Just as it all seemed to get rolling, everything is resolved. This is perhaps due to the short length of the book. I read it in only a few hours, spread over several days. This will be a fun beach read for those in its target audience. As for the rest of us, you may like it, too (especially if you are a DWTS fan, like me).
Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book for review.… (plus d'informations)
What worked for me: The deadpan voice of the first-person narrator. Given her messed up personal situation and her hapless reactions, she could have some across as whining. By keeping her reasonably level-headed, the author makes it possible for us to stick with her. And by not making her too empowered or snarky, we don't get put off, either. Beyond that, the prose, dialog, settings, and descriptions are all first-rate. There is nothing to complain about in terms of basic writing skills.
What didn't really work for me, once it occurred to me, is believing that this powerful, effective personal assistant for a popular pop figure is so easily reduced to a hapless, clueless shlub. I was also put off by the completely inane relationship she has with her brother and the rest of her family. Sure, this is the source of conflict for the story. But this is one of those conflicts that could be resolved in about two minutes if just one of the participants would act like a grown up, instead of a thirteen-year-old.
As for all of the rigmarole dealing with Dancing with the Stars and Hollywood: this is reasonably believable and mostly fun. In some ways, I wish it could have been richer. Just as it all seemed to get rolling, everything is resolved. This is perhaps due to the short length of the book. I read it in only a few hours, spread over several days. This will be a fun beach read for those in its target audience. As for the rest of us, you may like it, too (especially if you are a DWTS fan, like me).
Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book for review.… (plus d'informations)
Emails from a woman (contemplating divorce) to her divorcing neighbor. She convinces herself she is falling in love with him, even though he is traveling the entire time of their email conversation.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 17
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 3,091
- Popularité
- #8,260
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 251
- ISBN
- 159
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 4
