it’s official…
law school is taking over my life. I’ve been having a bad week and in an effort to cheer myself up, I decided that I would spend some time reading a book that I wanted to and not one where someone picked out specific pages. So I picked up When Good Things Happen to Bad Boys and decided to start off with the Erin McCarthy story, because we know how much I love her. Well, let me start off by saying, that was possibly the worst story I’ve read by her. It was like a HP. Bad dialogue, bad plot. Just yuck. Yet, I kept on reading. Because I’ve been having a bad streak with books and I held out hope that EM could pull it out in the end. So wrong. But anyway, my story about how law school has completely consumed me.
So, the plot is the girl wants to have a baby but because she’s convinced that her Mr. Right will never appear she wants to find a man who will agree to father her baby, but promise to have no contact once the baby is born. Of course the guy she finds, initially agrees to this but then decideds that he really wants to have a relationship with her. She throws a shit fit and is all, "that’s not what we agreed to." Now, for the past week or so we’ve been doing practice exams in our study groups and I’ve been concerned that I’m not able to spot all of the issues in the fact patterns. So what do I do? The whole time I’m reading this stupid little story I’m thinking about whether or not Dylan and Violet actually made a contract, and how I don’t think so because there was no meeting of the minds, and there was no consideration, and it was really just a gratuitous promise, and even if it wasn’t courts wouldnt want to enforce contracts like this but Dylan might have a cause of action grounded in promissory estoppel and….
and yeah. My pleasant little take-my-mind-off-of-school book. grossly backfired. Which leads me to declaring that I’m going to give myself permission to read at least 3 of the books I’ve been saving for my proverbial rainy day. But I can’t give myself carte blanche because I want to make sure I don’t pick up a book that’s so good that I’m not going to want to do anything other than read it. Some of the books I’m considering:
Opposites Attract - Michelle Pillow
Hazing Meri Sugarman - M. Apostolina
Happy Hour at Casa Dracula - Marta Acosta
Princess at Sea - Dawn Cook
French Kiss - Susan Johnson
The Pink Ghetto - Liz Ireland
Tall, Dark & Dead - Tate Halliday
Thoughts, anyone?
Well, I thought Tall, Dark and Dead was just okay. Interesting but not compelling in any way. I had no problem reading it in short time periods and not feeling driven to finish it or get back to it. Liked it, didn’t love it and while I might read the sequal, I won’t be tripping over myself to buy it. So what I’m saying is, it might fit your criteria
Comment by Angie — October 29, 2006 @ 7:34 am
I’ve read When Good THings Happen To Bad Boys. I felt that the McCarthy story read like a Susan Elizabeth Phillips story, except that SEP did it much much better.
Comment by May — November 1, 2006 @ 10:30 am
Uh-oh, that’s going to be a problem for the next little bit. I wonder if lawyers just have to let that kind of stuff go in books or if they avoid books they know will trigger their ‘they should have had pre-nup!’ thoughts.
I would read something that is a paranormal so not too much reality can intrude. i have read Tall, Dark & Dead although it is in the TBR pile. I haven’t heard of the others.
Helpful once again
cindy
Comment by CindyS — November 10, 2006 @ 2:57 am