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What I Did for Love: Wynette, Texas; Volume number 5
Written by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Narrated by Julia Gibson
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Perennial New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is easily one of the most beloved authors of women’s fiction in America—and with her wonderfully witty What I Did for Love, she works her magic once again. Turning her satirical eye on Hollywood and the messy love triangles of its major superstars (think Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie), the incomparable Susan delivers a treasure of a romantic comedy that the Detroit Free Press calls “a laugh-out-loud tale,” and Publishers Weekly calls a “massively entertaining romp.” Read What I Did for Love and discover why Susan Elizabeth Phillips has won more Favorite Book of the Year Awards from the Romance Writers of America than any other author, including Nora Roberts.
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What I Did for Love: Wynette, Texas; Volume number 5
Written by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Narrated by Julia Gibson
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Perennial New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is easily one of the most beloved authors of women’s fiction in America—and with her wonderfully witty What I Did for Love, she works her magic once again. Turning her satirical eye on Hollywood and the messy love triangles of its major superstars (think Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie), the incomparable Susan delivers a treasure of a romantic comedy that the Detroit Free Press calls “a laugh-out-loud tale,” and Publishers Weekly calls a “massively entertaining romp.” Read What I Did for Love and discover why Susan Elizabeth Phillips has won more Favorite Book of the Year Awards from the Romance Writers of America than any other author, including Nora Roberts.
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I enjoyed this. Entertaining.
I absolutely loved this book. of COURSE you know where it's going, but it's the journey that counts.
This is a late review since I read it a while ago but I do remember enjoying it. I definitely saw parallels between the Brangelina Rachel debacle but it didn't ruin it for me ^_^
The hero and heroine weren't much different than previous SEP h/h's, but the story was well told and kept me glued to the pages. Slightly flawed, but overall good.
What a stupid book, but let me tell you two things it taught me: (1) if the characters have stupid names (like Georgie and Bram), odds are it's not a good read and even when a book is lousy, because I paid for it, I have to read it ;-))
I found myself constantly wondering if Hollywood is this pathetic or if this was just a ridiculous story with absurdly one-dimensional characters. I am glad to hear this isn't SEPs best work. I will try another -- but this one is pretty lame.
Bram and Georgie are hollywood actors and have been teenage stars in their television series “Skip and Scooter”. For several reasons they hate each other and still - after a night in Las Vegas they wake up together and find themselves married.So far, so predictable.Of all books by SEP I found this the worst, in many parts boring, almost no surprises at all and not as heart warming as the other books. The main characteres just weren´t sympathetic. Especially Georgie just didn´t get into my heart at all.I liked the minor characteres and their (love-) stories, like Chaz, Aaron, Paul and Laura. To live surrounded by paparazzi must be disgusting, this is the only thing of the book that really kept me thinking for while, if it is realistic, which is a fact that I can´t judge. But still: Do rich people really do so little in their lives? All in all: not a good book by an author that could do much better.
Most of my thoughts on this book are already written in other reviews so I will just nutshell it.
1. This is an obvious commentary on Brangelina and Jennifer Aniston. Gross.
2. This was a little disappointing for me, as I am a huge SEP lover.
3. Bramwell? That isn't a name. No one has that name.
4. I liked Chaz and Aaron but didn't care about Georgie's dad and her agent.
1. This is an obvious commentary on Brangelina and Jennifer Aniston. Gross.
2. This was a little disappointing for me, as I am a huge SEP lover.
3. Bramwell? That isn't a name. No one has that name.
4. I liked Chaz and Aaron but didn't care about Georgie's dad and her agent.
Fun, fun, beach book.Mindlless and a little naughty romp through Hollywood. All the glitz and glamour and papparazzi, with a little down-to-earth thrown in. It's good to the know that the rich and famous are just as clueless as the rest of us. Very enjoyable.
Not wonderful, but not terrible. Just a nice light read.
This book was surprisingly good. The main character, Georgie York, is a child actress whose marriage recently fell apart in a Brad Pitt meets Angelina Jolie type of way. It was interesting to see the characters develop. Georgie becomes more independent from her father, gets over her marriage to Lance and discovers her latent interest in filmmaking. As the back cover suggests marries her former worst enemy/childhood co-star, who turns out to not be so bad after all.
Once upon a time SEP was one of the best light romance authors out there. And then her plots began to be 'borrowed' from the headlines and her characters repetitive. And so 'What I Did for Love' was born. Jennifer Aniston should sue.
An enjoyable fantasy on the themes of 'bad boy who turns out to be a pretty good guy' and 'finding real love where you least expect it.' Engaging and nicely dishy about life in Hollywood, but skip the epilogue unless you want an overdose of saccharine. Overall, the experience is how I imagine reading an R-rated Sarah Dessen would be if you also lowered your threshold for believability. (That's not a complaint.)
They grew up together on America’s favorite television sitcom. Georgie York was young, naïve, and overprotected. Bramwell Shepard was a callous youth, whose trouble making brought down the show. All grown up now, Georgie’s famous actor husband has left her for another woman. And if things couldn’t get worse, Georgie and Bram find themselves waking up in a Las Vegas hotel room with a marriage license with their names on it and no memory of how they got there. In this fairly predictable, but thoroughly enjoyable, story, Georgie and Bram struggle to keep up appearances and launch serious careers under the scrutiny of the public and the paparazzi.
I love SEP and I've read every single book she's ever written and she's on my autobuy list. All that being said, I was disappointed with this piece of froth. Two child actors who everyone loved but who hated each other, are now in their early 30's and both their lives are falling apart, for different reasons. A totally implausible plot twist gets them married (the old ecstacy in the wine trick) and then they go on a tabloid ride till they manage to fall in love for real. I didn't believe either of them really and while I wanted to like them, I just couldn't get into them enough. I liked Georgie York, the vulnerable commediene more, but she's not one of my favorite heroines. I didn't believe Bram's insight in the beach, or that he would have lied to her in that way earlier. It just didn't ring emotionally true for me. This is a really easy read, I read it in one day, but it's also, sadly, easily forgettable too.
Georgie York's very public divorce has left her humiliated and hounded by the gutter press. During a drunken evening in Las Vegas, she accidentally marries her old nemesis, former costar and bad boy Bram. To keep the press off their backs, they agree to stay married for a year, pretending it's a love match. But the situation is more complex than it looks, and Bram can't be trusted. Or can he?There are no villains here, only a lot of damaged people, most of whom find some kind of peace--and even love.
What I Did for Love is predictable Phillips, which is a compliment. In this latest rendition of her contemporary romances we meet America’s sweetheart, TV sitcom star Georgie York, just after her famous husband has left her for an Angelina Jolie-like Hollywood save-the-world stunner. The last person she wants to see as she’s recovering from her loss is her former sit-com co-star and ne’er-do-well Bram Shepard. Things went all wrong when they worked together – from Georgie’s rejected infatuation to Bram’s out-of-control bad-boy behavior, so the worst thing that could happen would be a reunion both on screen and off. Imagine their mutual amazement when they wake up in Vegas to find they’ve imbibed drug-laced drinks and gotten married overnight! Now they agree the best thing for both of their sagging careers would be to pretend to the public that they’ve reunited as the star-crossed lovers America dreamed they would be. Of course, life away from the cameras is hell, until they each realize they’ve changed in ways that are extremely attractive. Always a talent with snappy dialog and provocative, but tasteful, situations, Phillips absolutely does not disappoint with this entertaining and fun story.
This was the first book I've ready by Susan Elizabeth Phillips and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Georgie York is a former child star trying to make it in Hollywood as a serious actress, but no one (including her manager father) is willing to give her a chance. Not helping is the paparazzi who are obsessed with her and her ex-husband's new relationship and follow Georgie everywhere she goes hoping to catch some sort of emotional outburst. To make matters worse, her former co-star, Bram, catches her in one of her lowest moments and does little to make her feel better. Naturally, they both somehow end up in Vegas and wake up one morning to find they got married the night before. Instead of flipping out, they decide to take advantage of the opportunity, thinking all of the press will bring them into the public eye enough to advance their careers. The plot is a bit clichéd (Drunken wedding in Vegas?) and the characters were difficult to like at first, but by the end I found I had gotten pretty invested in their story. One thing I liked about this book was the strong character development. Everyone had their flaws and everyone had a bit of changing and growing up to do. And it all happened in believable ways. I also liked the familiar backdrop of Hollywood and the hungry paparazzi. The story itself seemed to mirror the kind of things we see in the gossip mags. This book has turned me on to Susan Elizabeth Phillips and I'm looking forward to reading more of her work.
When actress Georgie York's film career hits rock bottom along with her marriage, the paparazzi has a field day with her misfortune, which is only complicated by the reappearance of her sexy, unscrupulous former costar, Bramwell Shepard.SEP is one of my favorite authors, but this book wasn't as much fun as many of hers are. One of the reasons I like her so much is the fact that her stories have so much humor but this title was more serious. It was entertaining and a quick read, but not one of my favorites.
Not the best Phillips has done, took me a while to warm up to the H/H but it was worth the journey. Working with unlikeable people and making the reader feel they are worthwhile is one of this author's strong points. They aren't necessarily redeemed, the reader just comes to realize why they are the way they are, what their strong points are, and how we love and accept people for who they are, not what they are. Now it's going to be a very long wait til her next book comes out.
Phillips' other novels are a pleasure to read, filled with compelling, interesting characters and genuine chemistry. Georgie York and Bram Shepherd are initially so unlikable that I had a hard time sticking w/the story. Georgie is whiny, shrill and self-pitying. We get so few glimpses of what Bram is thinking throughout the story that it makes it nearly impossible to sympathize or understand why he's the hero. The plot is interesting and the thinly veiled Aniston-Pitt-Jolie device is a guilty pleasure. But overall, not Phillips' best work.
Excellent romance -- great characters, interesting plot, lovely ending. What more could I ask?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips writes romantic comedies with dialog heavy in sarcasm that is just brilliant. "What I Did for Love" is a story about people learning to be real in a fake town. Ripped from the headlines, the plot reads like an article from People magazine. The main characters are flawed and human; the supporting characters are equally three-dimensional. This was an extremely entertaining read that I could not put down.
okay, call me sappy, but I actually really liked this story. Of course I seem to like all of Susan Elizabeth Phillip's stories, so this should come as no surprise. Now I'm actually going to have to go back and read 'Glitter Baby' and refresh my memory of 'Natural Born Charmer. Yes the end was sappy, but Phillip created two real characters; people you'd see in a movie or on TV; the kind of people you root for and cry over, get angry at and then return safely to the world of reality. And that works for me.
Almost as good as Honey Moon, but much less heartbreak and no (reader) tears. Georgie is an instantly likeable character, clinging to her pride and good reputation after her Hollywood fairytale marriage ends. Her third flop movie is about to hit theaters and the tabloids have a teary-eyed picture of her reaction to seeing her ex-husband's new wife's sonogram. With no hope for a happy ending, she turns an accidental blunder into a crazy plan to stop the country's pitty party on her behalf. She never imagined she would fall in love. Thoroughly enjoyable.
georgia gets involved in a fake marriage with her former co-star. They were teen stars for 3 years in a popular tv show. Does the fake marriage work?