Here's looking at your This was witty and clever but the romance was lacking for me They worked as friends but not as anything I don t think Not my favourite from this author 432 Da hatte ich mal wieder zu hohe Erwartungen Aber der Vergleich mit Stolz und Vorurteil ist gar nicht unpassend Und das gef llt mir. Heres looking at you humor quotes Die Idee an sich ist gut und die eigentliche Sache zwischen Anna und James auch Aber wie es sich so entwickelt und verl uft hat mir ber weite Teile nicht gefallen Ich fand es teilweise zu pl tschernd.

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Mhairi was born in Scotland in 1976 and her unnecessarily confusing name is pronounced Vah Ree. Here's looking at you burger Me ha gustado much simo la evoluci n de los protagonistas es sencillamente brillante y no solo son convincentes sino que los dos enamoran tanto l como ella algo que en mi opini n sucede en pocos libros Al leer la contra puede parecer que el argumento es ya conocido y probablemente lo es porque cu ntos libros hemos le do sobre el chico y la chica que se conocen en el instituto se hacen da o y se reencuentran de mayores Muchos Pero este es distinto todo en l es distinto desde el fant stico modo de escribir de la autora hasta los giros del argumento y un final absolutamente precioso. Here's looking at you burger Una nica pega muy muy muy peque a a mi coraz n de rom ntica no le habr a importado que el final hubiese sido m s largo No conoc a a esta autora langatmig und belanglos Aber das ist wohl so typisch Chick Lit Genauso wie ein Haufen Klischees und wie vorhersehbar es letztendlich ist Obwohl die Autorin es ein paar mal schafft dass man berlegt ob es doch anders kommt Das Thema Mobbing ist einf hlsam verarbeitet und ich habe wirklich mit Anna und ihrer traumatischen Jugend mitgef hlt Insgesamt hat mich der Umgang mit dem Thema aber auch nicht begeistert Das vom dicken M dchen zur Sch nheit war definitiv zu klischeehaft Und James als Schwarm und Peiniger kommt viel zu gut weg dabei auch wenn man sich nat rlich w nscht dass die beiden zusammenfinden Daf r ist es insgesamt leicht und fluffig liest es sich angenehm fl ssig und das Ende hat mir dann wieder gefallen. Heres looking at you literature fiction quotes Insgesamt also eine nette Geschichte f r Zwischendurch unterhaltsam und gem tlich aber nichts Besonderes 432 I can t really express my views on this book in a rating so I ll try for a review instead some spoilers ahead This is the second book I ve read by Mhairi McFarlane and I only kept reading because I liked the first one so much This author really knows how to create rich characters and how to develop them This can mean that I struggle with the beginning of the book because the characters haven t gone through that development yet and aren t yet that likeable They fuck up A lot And since they re also called out for it that can be great I did have a very significant problem with this book though The premise is that the protagonist Anna got bullied badly in school because she was fat and this experience hasn t ever really left her She goes to a school reunion to exorcise the past and meets her former tormentor crush He doesn t recognise her because she s lost so much weight and she walks out on the reunion but then surprise she has to work with him on a project and gets to know him better. Here's looking at you restaurant la Despite its many clich s and Pride and Prejudice references which I m not sure were intentional but must have been this book does get a lot of things right It talks about bullying in a very honest way it calls characters out for their bullshit the former bully goes through a lot of development characters make horrible mistakes and learn from them However I can t get over the fact that it s still just another fat girl loses weight and suddenly finds love tale It made me so uncomfortable to read in the beginning because I know what it s like to be bullied because you re fat to feel wary just walking down the street because you know you re going to get called names to blame yourself for all the rejection you experienced If you ve gone through all that shit it doesn t really help to constantly be bombarded with fat shaming and narratives like these that tell you you have to lose weight to find love and be happy and attractive Yes this book does a much better job than most at talking about bullying but at its heart it still implies all those things I realise that some people do lose weight but a lot of people also just stay fat and that doesn t make them worth any less or And to top it off the way the book references Anna s weight loss is to just say that one day she realised the stuff she was eating wasn t her comfort for being treated badly but the thing that kept her from being part of the good life I m paraphrasing because I can t be arsed to look up the quote but that s basically what it says so she just puts on a track suit and starts running Yeah That s really not how it works usually Also I mentioned the clich s right There are all the references to Pride and Prejudice which are fine distant father mother who loses her shit when her daughters get married Anna overhears James make an unflattering remark about her at the renunion that sticks with her Anna s sister is very interested in clothes and having a grand wedding James has an old friend from childhood who also tries to bed Anna and is an overall sucky guy Anna s sister then almost sleeps with with aforementioned guy only to be saved by James James helps Anna s sister financially Anna s ridiculous suitors Anna denies she doesn t have feelings for James James completely transforms himself to become a better person after meeting Anna You could almost call this a retelling really was it one I was never quite sure However there s also all the other stuff Anna is suddenly thrown together to work with her old bully crush What are the odds He falls in love with her the way you usually fantasise about when you have that unhealthy crush bully combo deal in school The let me show you how to bowl hug The pretend dating James wife is an ice queen with no redeemable qualities whatsoever IDEK guys I don t mind a good clich but I am fairly tired of some of those especially the ex wife trope. Here's what you looking at I hate that the book failed so badly in some regards because it was so great in others I loved how honest it was and how Anna saw through people s bullshit I loved the descriptions of her work life and her family though her parents deserve to be called out on their bad behavior often I liked James character development and truly hope he s a better person now I loved the friendly teasing between Anna and James Sadly none of this really makes up for how it lets itself down in other regards I just can t overlook that Anna s happy ending is losing lots of weight to become hot and go steady with her high school bully 432 Loved the strong female character in this enemies to friends to lovers story by the incomparable Mhairi McFarlane This author is the Boss of humourous slice of life women s fiction Her characters are always down to earth and likeable I love spending time with them. Heres looking at youu youuuuuuu McFarlane s novels have a specific conflict that drives the storyline in each of her novels For example infidelity in Its Not Me It s You bullying and self image acceptance in Here s Looking at You. Here's looking at you kid McFarlane appears to have a very clear message for her readers Get out live your life take the risk of rejection put it out there and tell the object of your affections ABOUT your affections Hmmmm a lot of us have been there done that and yup egg on our faces But to be fair McFarlane also explores the excruciating fear of actually making said declaration of love and then describes the inevitable dejection of the rejected suitor post confession We can t win them all but we should be brave and put ourselves out there Got it I hear you Mhairi McFarlane but I am at a stage in my life where I just like to read about everyone else s daring forays into relationships and HEAs. Here's looking at you meme I love this author s humour and vivid writing style so even though I may have traveled down a similar road with her before she changes things up enough and provides such enticing characters that I don t mind at all So looking forward to slowly making my way through this author s other books 432 This book had to have been quite a challenge to write I mean not only did McFarlane undertake to convey the reality of someone bullied mercilessly in school who carries that trauma well into adulthood but she undertook at the same time to redeem the centrally traumatic person involved and make him the love interest That is a near insurmountable task and I m happy to report that at least for me she pulled it off beautifully. Here's looking at you kid origin It helps that while they both have some distance from the events both also have some ground to make up still to become the kind of people who can be together in a healthy relationship So the story is able to show on page the growth arc both manage and to show how they do so at least in part together or with the impetus help each of the other I loved that Anna needed to learn to accept and forgive her younger self and to put those events into a perspective that would no longer haunt her And I loved that James had the courage to make structural changes in his life even though they left him significantly adrift just because they were the right thing to do And I love even that both had to lean carefully into their changes with setbacks and retrenchment along the way but a determination to get where they wanted needed to be regardless. Heres looking at yout team And it doesn t hurt that McFarlane is one of those few writers where I can acknowledge and admire their particularly adroit phrase craft without it breaking the flow of the story with my admiration I m normally a huge fan of Orson Scott Card s advocacy of transparent prose that works to project story without drawing attention to itself But some authors represent a personal exception to this guideline and McFarlane has become a new addition to that club for me. Book heres looking at you summary It wasn t all smooth sailing though I nearly bogged down in the middle as I saw little forward progress with the characters I cared about and key relationships seemed mired in the shallow end of the emotional pool I didn t have to resolve or push through for very long but it left a kind of wary tension for a while until the story picked back up. Heres looking at you literature fiction book review So I m going to end this with a 4 star rating that I ll gladly round up in acknowledgement of the unprecedented I think I m not actually looking it up 23 highlights I made while readingA note about Steamy Chaste Unfortunately I finished this about a week ago and I forget if there was explicit sex in it I recall some great kissing but Anna isn t in a place where sex is really on the table until the end and she s smart enough that she wasn t going to go there without some emotional intimacy involved And once the emotional arc had been completed any explicit sex would have been simply gratuitous I m going to tag this as chaste but I want to admit that I forget if there was somehow 432 Omgggggg I devoured this I loved how light and fluffy and hilarious this was while still having just the right amount of seriousness sprinkled in While there were a few crude jokes in here that made me feel a little iffy I still wholeheartedly adored this I am SO GLAD I BOUGHT ALL OF MHAIRI MCFARLANE S BOOKS 432 Note this is a revised review and not the original I wrote my first review of this after finishing it in a rage at the way MillsBoon books were used in the story and decided not to grade the book because I knew that my view was extremely coloured as a result Calm reflection and the urging of several fellow MB authors made me get in touch with the author directly to express my concerns I have to say she not only took my concerns seriously but took the time to express her own reasons and POV We didn t agree on everything there are some things we agreed to differ on but she has graciously allowed me to quote her and I ve realised that in some ways I was out of line and decided to go back and take a fresh look at the book I d like to stress that this re review was my own idea and not the author s So here goes now with a warning it s long First up the use of MillsBoon as a derisory term full of assumptions about the contents of the books about them being clich ridden fantasies that are only read by sad women who don t have real romance in their life Sadly I come across this attitude all the time not least from my own family and in particular the males People who don t read romance mock it The press takes the p s out of the genre in a way that wouldn t be accepted if it wasn t written mostly by women Having a pop at MillsBoon is easy and it gets us all furious as readers and writers because it s wrong on so many levels No need to go into the why s we ve all been there all defended or walked away or ranted or cried about it But the fact is people do it And James to quote Ms McFarlane is a 30 something metropolitan male who fancies himself and I think we can safely say someone who would not be seen dead reading any romance MB or otherwise. Heres looking at you literature fiction and fantasy True In the scene I objected to most James picks up Anna s book reads it out jeeringly asks Anna why she likes it He listens to her defence of the genre Then he tries as he woos Anna to get it to vocalise his feelings to try the odd romantic gesture Not because he s converted to romantic novels but because he wants Anna and that s what Anna wants So in the final scene in the restaurant when he s got her he lapses back into mocking MB again Which yes I think is true to character and sadly true to life In fact if James had been one of my relatives I would have laughed at him and that s what Ms McFarlane truly intended I believe Okay next Anna the MB lover in the book My issue with her was that she could be flagged up as a clich d MB reader having once been fat and bullied now unattractive but unable to see it I didn t discuss this point with the author but I do feel that she played into the hands of the MB haters a wee bit And I do feel that had she been a true fan of the genre she would have defended that for me wrong line the line at the end Mills Boon heroines don t usually do string free bonks There s always a wedding at the end they are an old fashioned fantasy And this we did discuss Ms McFarlane has read recent MBs so I was wrong to criticise her lack of research but she s not an avid reader The fact is that there are so many imprints written by such a range of authors catering for wildly different readers that it s true string free bonks are a no no in lots of cases But not all And in my view definitely not in the majority of stories Yes sex does mean something when the hero and heroine meet but that doesn t mean that the heroine hasn t had sex before and it hasn t been particularly meaningful Ms McFarlane suggested that wouldn t be the case in Historicals I agree to an extent the consequences would have been dire and sexual history is sometimes a conflict but not always But I d also say here that my judgement was VERY coloured because in MY books there isn t always a standard HEA involving marriage and kids and in MY books the heroines sometimes do behave unconventionally The thing is though I was being specific and Ms McFarlane was generalising So to be absolutely fair we were both right The main point that I still objected to and which remains painful for me which was the actual excerpt which James reads aloud form a so called MB historical which was done in what I d call a Barbara Cartland ish style I still object to this The language implied that MB heroines hang about waiting to be rescued it used flowery clich s and implied they were wilting wallflowers with no mind of their own No doubt there are still such Historicals out there but I believe they are definitely in the minority and that not only are MB Historical heroines independent and strong willed they quite often rescue the hero I am biased there s no doubt about it and I took this a personal slight when I shouldn t have also no doubt about that But one of the most back handed complements I get in reviews is that new readers to me or to the line are surprised at how well written it is So although this was satire I felt and still feel that this aspect of the book was inappropriate That said Ms McFarlane has agreed to put some MB Historicals on her 2014 reading list so So what s the upshot of all this I was wrong and I apologise for going off on one and for allowing what I took to be personal slights to colour my judgement and for taking things too personally which I think is the same thing I stand by my comments on the content of the MillsBoon Historical being all wrong I can now see that James s behaviour and comments are sadly accurate and intended to be laughed at and that overall the book isn t critical of MB romance but actually intended to reinforce it as well as to use the tropes satirically I can also see that Anna is to quote Ms McFarlane an intelligent sympathetic and unapologetic modern fan of MB and crucially remains so to the very end Attaining James doesn t mean she stops reading them True but I do wish Anna had been staunch in her defence and that she hadn t reinforced some of the clich s about romance readers I d like to thank Ms McFarlane for taking the time to have this out with me in private In short finally I owe her an apology for some of the things which I misinterpreted and which were coloured by my taking them personally and so I do I am sorry But there s also some things which I ve wittered on about above that we will agree to differ on She was happy to leave it at that it was my idea to re evaluate in the light of Can I give her book a rating I ve done so though I can t honestly say that it s unbiased because I still have strong personal feelings about some aspect of it that have everything to do with how romance in general is perceived and not very much to do with this book For me those aspects spoilt the story but that s also personal and says about me and my writing than Ms McFarlane s I will read the next one though which I m assured has no MB in it at all 432 Crazy how one bad experience can reverberate down the years like that isn t it A Goodreads friend recommended this to me saying it s a bit of a Pride and Prejudice story and when I read it she was right So I m reviewing this book as a Pride and Prejudice retelling Thanks for recommending this Olivia Anna Alessi is a beautiful sexy history expert in her thirties who hasn t been successful in finding the one Online dating isn t going swimmingly with only polyamorous sexual deviants and obnoxious dates going her way But that s not what she s worried about There s a school reunion coming round the corner and she doesn t know if she should face her demons or just bury it until she can t see it. Heres looking at you kid ao3 With a gorgeous Prada number Anna enters the lion s den She expected an entrance where everyone would stare at her in awe but once she s at the reunion party no one even recognizes her She s than ready to quietly leave the place but she catches the eye of her childhood crush slash life ruiner James Fraser and his best friend Laurence. Here's looking at you kid nyt Not only do they not recognize her Laurence even tries to hit on her James however does not disappoint He s still not impressed And Anna s unfortunate enough to overhear him tell Laurence that she s not that hot not my type After leaving the reunion party Anna hopes to never cross paths with anyone from school ever again but she then discovers that the advertising agency who is in partnership with the project she is handling is the same one James Fraser works for And guess what He s also assigned to the project. Synopsis of here's looking at you mhairi mcfarlane She shouldn t be giving any of her bullies the time of day but instead she finds herself on a pretend date with the same boy in high school who instigated her biggest humiliation in school It doesn t end on the pretend date there s a night out at the theatre with him his best friend her sister and her best friend a moment at his flat and at hers Nothing happened of course since James is still technically married to his cheating wife but the fact that that even happened is something Anna never expected nor dreamt of She s actually friends with the James Fraser. Humphrey van here's looking at you kid I think a lot of people would relate to Anna Some than others have been bullied when we were young and as much as we try to let bygones be bygones there will always be a remnant of hurt that will latch on to us I was called ugly and fat because I was a chubby girl with frizzy hair glasses and braces They called me Ugly Betty They made me feel unwanted I m not the kid I was in high school and although I try to not give a fuck now there are times when it still hurts What Anna went through was way worse and damn it It hurts. Kindle heres looking at you pdf Anna s family has the Bennet family essence Her younger sister Aggy is a combination of Lydia and Jane She has Lydia s exuberant personality and Jane s innocence and kindness She obviously adores Anna and although sometimes she comes off a bit petulant she means well Her mother is a bit silly and her father is indolent but considers Anna his favorite child. Heres looking at you kid ao3 And the guy s name is JAMES FRASER Outlander anyone James was a piece of shit in school because of what he did to Anna Sure he s a changed man now and he and Anna actually got on quite well but I really wanted redemption for Anna He didn t even find out Anna was the Aureliana Alessi everyone bullied back in school until much later. Here's looking at you restaurant la I found myself crying during the confrontation scene I felt the pain Anna felt when she was in school and I understood that despite the fact that she s no longer the girl she was she s still carrying the burden of it She s now this gorgeous woman with a great job and friends who love her for who she is but she s still holding on to the pain that one day everyone at school made her feel unwanted unloved and undeserving All I needed you to do was nothing to me But you didn t let me even have that. Heres looking at you kid ao3 Her Mr Collins comes in the form of Neil a man she met while online dating He s a piece of work I tell you He s not much in the book other than the date and a few e mail exchanges but he s there. Here's looking at your There are Wickham esque characters read fucking douchebags who need to be buried alive but they re characters you re not sure are Wickhams or Bingleys a good natured bloke who s perpetually happy or Colonel Fitzwilliam a charming right hand man. Book heres looking at your face I enjoyed watching James and Anna get to know each other as adults The physical attraction is not what started their good rapport Their friendship is based purely on their interests and genuine pull towards each other. Here's looking at you restaurant la There were times I had to stop reading and google something because this book had a lot of English slang I thought I had a grasp of their slang but sometimes I felt like I was reading a different language The ending felt a bit rushed compared to the slow burn happening throughout the book but it was sweet if you re into grand gestures and such The story is a bit predictable and there were tons of the cliche tropes you d find in a chick lit but it was fun and compelling I could relate to the character and all in all I just wanted her to be happy I wanted her to finally let go of her demons and move on And I wanted her to find her Mr Darcy in a pool of Collinses and Wickhams Blog Facebook Twitter Instagram 432 What a disappointment. Heres looking at you humor jokes While I enjoyed the author s previous book You had me at hello this one made me mad enough to throw the book at the wall if I was reading a physical copy of it anyway Positively RIDDEN with clich s Fat girl bullied at high school Check Bullies are super skinny and popular girls with brains smaller than that of an ostrich Check Girl has a crush on the most popular boy in school Check Popular boy doesn t giver her time of the day and makes fun of her because she s fat Check Girl grows up loses baby fat gets a makeover and becomes super hot Check check Girl can t find a decent man to date who is sensitive and understanding and caring and not at all a pervert who likes to discuss bedroom antics on the very first date Check Girl has two a guy and a girl super loyal super funny and super awesome best friends who alone know and love THE REAL HER Check Girl runs into high school crush again who suddenly finds her OMGATTRACTIVE because she s all skinny now ing check Girl hates crush because he was an asshole to her while at school but oh He s so hot and maybe she still has feelings for him CHECK. 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In essence it s an ugly duckling tale Our heroine Aureliana returns to school after fifteen years for a reunion School doesn t hold happy memories for her as being a roly poly Italian known as the Italian Galleon and always armed with a Tupperware full of pungent Mediterranean food she was bullied incessantly throughout her years there Now in her 30s Aureliana wants to put the past behind her once and for all and face up to the bullies who made her life hell But she is much changed from the girl she once was all curves and because I m worth it hair and no one recognises her when she arrives Losing her bottle she backs out on her plan for revenge and slinks off hoping never to be reminded of her years at school again But fate gets in the way and after the reunion her path keeps crossing with James major hunk and Aureliana s major crush back at school But alas as a cronie to the bullies Aureliana to this day believes that his beautiful exterior hides an ugly interior As they continue to cross paths a love hate relationship ensues until eventually something shifts and they both start to discover what the person underneath is really likeFull of Mhairi s trademark laugh out loud humour Here s Looking At You is a novel about facing your demons and being happy with who you really are Heres Looking at You.

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Pero sin duda seguir ley ndola 432 Hmmm this was a tale of coming to terms with who you are and refusing to let your past influence your future: Was here's looking at you kid After some efforts at journalism she started writing novels It s Not Me It s You is her third book She lives in Nottingham with a man and a cat. Heres looking at you humor meaning Los discursos que se imagina Ana Aureliana la protagonista son hilarantes y la escena de la boda de la hermana es preciosa, Heres looking at you literature fiction quotes This novel is a variation on the theme in Its Not Me It s You, Heres looking at youp pinterest It didn t take long to notice that this author tends to use the same tropes with a few switch ups