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The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom
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2008-08-25This book was fun to read and is actualy more for women who enjoy a little comic relief now and then. It is well written too. I read it very quickly which means it keep my intrest. I highly recomend this book for women.
2008-01-15dispite being the latest darling of the chick lit craze, Barrett's book suffers from a major flaw in characterization. Namely, how was Claire inteligent enough to get through law school dispite suffering from such a woefully inept sense of humor and an inability to employ her brain beyond matters of choosing the right lipstick for landing herself a man? More troublesome than the sheer banality of these books is the way sassy one-liners have become a kind of shorthand in womens fiction for independant female identity.
2007-10-11Claire St. John, recently moved back to Texas from New York after a painful divorce, has a breakthough one drunken evening: she's going to write a book for men about what goes on in the ladies' room. The book will be filled with practical advice for the more clueless members of the species. The Men's Guide to the womens Bathroom, the novel, is pretty much your standard chick lit, with the requisite cliches: the love intrest, the gay best friend, and the nutty mother.
There's nothing here that really distingishes this book from all the other tripe that's published today. Nothing is fresh or new or exciting. The humor is canned, and the writing style is childish. This book really isnt worth the time or the money you might otherwise spend on it.
2007-04-27This is a light, fast paced and breezy chick lit book that I enjoyed reading. I loved that on every page there is something to chuckle and giggle about. The main character, Claire, was really easy to relate to because I think there's so much of her in every women. She's just one of many great charachters in the book.
I haven't read anything by Jo Barrett, but now I plan on reading her next book.
2007-04-24Claire St. John is a divorced attorney who splits from her high-profile New York life when she learns that her husband is having an affair. Moving back to her hometown of Austin, Texas, Claire desides to give up her life as an attorney and instead desides to take up life as a novelist--an unemployed, inexperienced novelist. Her topic of choice: a self-help novel for men that will help them understand the mistery that is the womens restroom. Somewhere along the way, she meets Jake Armstrong, an organic food distributor who just might be the man to help Claire beleive in love again. Along with her hilarious cast of friends, Claire tries to navigate the dating life, establishing her new carreer, and getting over her ex.
In The Men's Guide to the womens Bathroom, Jo Barrett attempts to answer the age old question that has plagued men for years, "What exactly goes on in the womens bathroom?" The answer is simple. Everything. Bad date? The bathroom is where women go to make a sneak call to their friends informing them of the catastrophe. Bad day? The bathroom is where women sneak in a mid-day cry before heading back to the office. For any and all emotions, the womens bathroom is the place where we can find sanctuary, a place for peace when the world seems filled with chaos. Jo Barrett has captured the essense of the womens bathroom and placed it in the context of a fun, lighthearted chick lit novel that was a joy to read and intertaining to boot.
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| Editorial Review |
The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom strives to answer life's most imponderable question: What Do Women Really Do in the Bathroom?
When the witty and urbane Claire St. John leaves New York City and returns to Austin, Texas, she realizes that all of the good advice she has ever received has been from strangers in the women's bathroom. If only she'd listened before she'd married the wrong man and wound up on the losing end of a divorce.
Swearing off men, Claire decides to take a big chance—she will quit her life as a lawyer and write the ultimate self-help book—a book detailing exactly what goes on in that most sacred feminine temple: the women's bathroom.
But will the new how-to guru ever learn to take her own advice? While she's discovering the truth behind the bathroom door, re-assimilating to Texas culture by eating "nuclear" jalape?o carrots, speeding down highways through the famed Texas hill country, and even joining an ill-fated booze cruise, Claire St. John is fighting her feelings for Jake Armstrong, a dashing organic food entrepreneur who threatens to throw off the balance of her new life. Will she be able to handle the pressure or will she watch her love life get flushed away?
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