Abandoned by Booklikes

I read this book eons ago. I loved the snappy dialogue and the main character Charlize (otherwise known as Charlie) and her crazy family and friends.

I had a horrible day the other day and all I did was hunker down and read this and the next book in the series since they are go to laugh out loud books for me. Long story short, I was in a car accident (I am fine) but am irritated that I had to take the day off work to deal with insurance companies and drive my car to an auto body repair shop for an estimate. I will be lucky to get my car repaired by the second week in January at this point. Fingers crossed.

Re-reading this book years later it is still smart and funny. Charlie is a personal assistant to Drew Stanton (one of Hollywood's richest A list stars) and is dealing with the fact that she is single and about to turn 30. Armed with her two best friends from college (Kate and Dawn) she tries to navigate Los Angeles dating scene while making sure that her younger sister gets married and their crazy family doesn't ruin the day.

There were literally some laugh out moments in this book. Any scene dealing with Charlie's family always caused me to go into a laughing fit. The craziness that happens while trying to assist Drew was also ripe for laughs.

I liked the idea that Charlie was writing a book of advice to her yet to be born great grandniece so throughout the book we had funny little asides with regards to dating, love, and family.

"Breaking up is hard to do. Do it anyway."

"Never call a household between 10 pm and 8 a.m."

I will admit that I wasn't feeling Charlie's love interest in this book at all. I had more fun reading about her bad dates frankly.

The writing was great. Though at times things felt overly descriptive though I like that Ms. Gruenenfelder took such care to describe the settings where certain things in the book took place.

The ending promised more to come from Charlie and her family.