Earned half a star simply for including the name of Colin Firth in the title. Otherwise, it wouldn't have earned any stars at all. After managing to make it through 1 1/2 hyperglycemic chapters, I literally threw it down onto a table in the middle of chapter 2 when the author quoted the worst line in any Pride and Prejudice production: "I love, I love, I love you," alluding a connection to Colin Firth. As any Firth fan knows, this line was, in fact, spoken not by Firth, but in exasperating monotone by Matthew Macfadyen in a 2005 film production - easily the greatest travesty ever performed on an Austen work. For a novel supposedly about women obsessed by Colin Firth, this represents pretty shoddy research. A week later, I picked up the book once more to thumb through and find out whether the characters ever managed to meet Colin Firth. I'll not spoil it for you in the event you're brave enough to read it, but I have one word that best describes this novel: kindling.
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This was a book I picked up in an airport while traveling one time, and am just now getting around to reading. I have this odd habit of purchasing what I call "airport books", but not reading them during the trip on which I purchased them. Eh.
This was a fast, light read, although it did cover a bit of a heavier topic regarding adoption. Although Colin Firth's name appears in the title (and is what in fact attracted me to purchase the book in the first place -- I thought he'd play a much larger role in the book than he did) the main plot of the book doesn't revolve around him. True, there are lots of ladies in the book who proclaim to love him, and he is filming a movie in the small town where the book is set (in Maine! I didn't realize that until after I purchased it, and books set in Maine are another of my reading quirks). But the book itself revolves around pregnancy and adoption (and Colin Firth plays no role in either the pregnancies or the adoptions).
The story is told from the point of view of three women -- one who has just learned that she was adopted as a child in a death note from her (adopted) mother, a second who had a child as a teenager who she gave up for adoption (the first woman, of course), and a third who is pregnant but isn't sure she wants to be ... who is assigned to write a news piece covering the home for pregnant girls where the three women's lives intersect. The second woman also bakes a lot of pies that don't really add much to the story if you ask me. There's also another woman who isn't a POV character who WANTS to adopt a child. And another set of young people who work on the movie set who were adopted and have stories to add as well. Anyway, their lives all intersect and they help each other grow and opinions change and blah blah.
There were some good thoughts about adoption, motherhood, pregnancy, etc that I'll probably add as quotes here. But while the story itself wasn't bad, it also wasn't anything special if you ask me. But it was cute and entertaining nonetheless; I've still added the first book by this author, The Meryl Streep Movie Club, to my TBR.
This was a book I picked up in an airport while traveling one time, and am just now getting around to reading. I have this odd habit of purchasing what I call "airport books", but not reading them during the trip on which I purchased them. Eh.
This was a fast, light read, although it did cover a bit of a heavier topic regarding adoption. Although Colin Firth's name appears in the title (and is what in fact attracted me to purchase the book in the first place -- I thought he'd play a much larger role in the book than he did) the main plot of the book doesn't revolve around him. True, there are lots of ladies in the book who proclaim to love him, and he is filming a movie in the small town where the book is set (in Maine! I didn't realize that until after I purchased it, and books set in Maine are another of my reading quirks). But the book itself revolves around pregnancy and adoption (and Colin Firth plays no role in either the pregnancies or the adoptions).
The story is told from the point of view of three women -- one who has just learned that she was adopted as a child in a death note from her (adopted) mother, a second who had a child as a teenager who she gave up for adoption (the first woman, of course), and a third who is pregnant but isn't sure she wants to be ... who is assigned to write a news piece covering the home for pregnant girls where the three women's lives intersect. The second woman also bakes a lot of pies that don't really add much to the story if you ask me. There's also another woman who isn't a POV character who WANTS to adopt a child. And another set of young people who work on the movie set who were adopted and have stories to add as well. Anyway, their lives all intersect and they help each other grow and opinions change and blah blah.
There were some good thoughts about adoption, motherhood, pregnancy, etc that I'll probably add as quotes here. But while the story itself wasn't bad, it also wasn't anything special if you ask me. But it was cute and entertaining nonetheless; I've still added the first book by this author, The Meryl Streep Movie Club, to my TBR.
