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I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

January 4, 2014

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Pages: 433 Copyright: 2012

The synopsis: “Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!

Well, perfect except that the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wading into his personal life.

What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other’s lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls, and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents . . . she soon realizes that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life.”

This was SUCH a fun book!! I was almost sorry to finish it. There were one or two times when I got a little frustrated with Poppy for making awful decisions, but for the most part, she was very relatable and sweet, and funny. It was a very pleasant ride being in her head. I really liked her development as she began to learn to stick up for herself; it was very authentic and well-done. And the plot was stronger than you typically expect from this type of romancey book, in the sense that it was kind of unpredictable. There were twists and turns along the way that kept me guessing and made the story feel more round and real. The whole e-mail/texting twist was also a fun quirk to the story that made it very unique and interesting.

And it was so cute!! This book had me squealing (and exclaiming during times of stress or suspense) loud enough to scare my dog. I won’t say anything definitive about how the romance situation ends up, I’ll just say that characters are very well matched and balance each other out perfectly; you can really understand why they fall for each other and why they work together. Very solid.

I also loved Poppy’s footnotes, which added little commentaries or clarifications. I think little features like that in novels are very fun, and make the story memorable.

I’ve Got Your Number was a cute love story with strong character and plot development and a splash of mystery and drama to boot. Two thumbs up! Oh, and bonus points for the cover. It’s striking, isn’t it?

Special Awards:

Squee for romance. I literally squee’d aloud, especially at the ending!!

All-Nighter– I didn’t want to put it down.

Posted by Tova in Book Reviews Tags: adult fiction, i've got your number, magnus tavish, poppy wyatt, review, romance, sam roxton, sophie kinsella

Status: Drawing Inside of a Booknado

December 14, 2013

Hello, world. Happy Saturday. Today is pretty booked up for me– this morning I had callbacks for my school’s production of a cute rom-com play called Almost, Maine (this is the first show I’ve ever had my heart set on a specific part in. It’s stressful!!), and later I’m going to a big holiday party.

So, I kind of feel like I’m in the middle of a booknado right now, except without the peaceful eye-of-the-storm part. I have Allegiant (the end of the Divergent trilogy) out from the library, finally, and I have Ned Vizzini’s new book The Other Normals out from my school library, which I’ve had for quite some time, and I’m not really sure when it’s due back. So clearly I should be reading those. But then there are two books that I recently bought, I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella and An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, and those two, especially the latter, just keep calling my name more loudly. Which is causing a lot of stress, because I know my time is limited to read the library ones. I guess I just have this feeling like Allegiant is complex and intense, and The Other Normals kind of is too, while the ones I own are lighthearted, easy realistic fictions, and I’m more in the mood to relax than to sit on the edge of my chair.

I’ll try to persevere with the library ones, if for no other reason for the sake of reporting to you all about them before they’re taken away.

If you’ve been following my monologues especially carefully over the months, you’ll know that it’s newsworthy that I’m feeling so positive about a John Green book— not that I haven’t enjoyed his work a lot, but there’s always been that sense that I’m not as 1000% obsessed as the rest of the reader world is. But a friend told me that An Abundance of Katherines was her favorite, and I sense already that I may be inclined to agree. I only have one major beef with it, and that is that I cannot buy for a second that nineteen girls named Katherine would have zero problem with the fact that their boyfriend only dates Katherines, refers to them by number (Katherine IV, Katherine XI), and has dated as many as eighteen of them before her. Why should they believe he likes them for them and not for their name? Huge red flag. But whatever. It’s a really fun book, well written like his stuff always is, and I don’t sense any awful tragedies lurking ahead. Hopefully.

On a maybe-unrelated note, I’ve been messing with drawing a lot lately. I’ve always called myself “the artistic type” while avoiding sports and suffering through math homework, but for the most part, that’s manifested itself more in writing than in visual art. But I’ve always been partial to drawing people, maybe for the same reason that I like to write. Drawing someone is like creating a character, but it gives you a lot of abilities in that creation that you don’t have in writing, and can convey your vision a lot more efficiently and powerfully (a picture is worth a thousand words). My preferred medium has always been plain old un-colored pencil on paper; it’s very no-fuss and I can focus my energy without worrying about mastering a lot of tools. So I’ve been drawing a lot of people, and more than anything, pushing myself to do different body positions, other than straight-on views of a person standing in rigid mountain pose. And to add another level, being on Tumblr with all the jaw-droppingly talented art that gets posted there makes me want to add my humble attempts to the mix, so I’ve done some ink-outlining (my lines are never dark enough) and scanning. And naturally seeing a drawing in photoshop makes me want to color it, but the tutorial to do anything more than basic unshaded colors seemed to go from a scribble in step 1 to the Mona Lisa in step 2, so… yikes.

But anyhow, it’s been fun, and I guess if I just keep making tiny advances, I can only improve. Hopefully.

Notice that I haven’t said anything about the fact that I’m hearing back from my top-choice college in four days. Or actually, you didn’t notice, because you didn’t know. Because I don’t want to talk about it. So I guess that closes that subject. muffled screaming

Is your shelf overloaded? Or are you in a book lull?

Posted by Tova in Book Chats Tags: Allegiant, almost maine, books, drawing, i've got your number, John Green, Ned Vizzini, sophie kinsella, the other normals