The Guy Not Taken: Stories

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The Guy Not Taken: Stories

by Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a widow accepting two young women into her home, Weiner's eleven stories explore those transformative moments in our every day.
We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one Friday night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We stumble on Good in Bed's Bruce Guberman, liquored-up and ready for anything on the night of his best friend's bachelor party, until stealing his girlfriend's tiny rat terrier becomes more complicated than he'd planned. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved New York City apartment in the hope of winning her broker's heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers,... see complete book description

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  • ronalyn013

    ronalyn013 says

    it was good. each story was likeable in its own way, but I would have preferred to have a full book for each story. It was too rushed, and you never had time to really fall for her characters. Also, I am torn with how I felt about Cannie and Bruce being in there, especially from his perspective, because they didn't even end up together in Good in Bed, and this book comes after it, but is based on before it, and then Certain Girls is going to be after this one, which is an up to date on Cannie's life. I can't really explain what I mean, but it does lead me to believe that her and Bruce might end up back together which better not happen.

    posted 2 weeks ago

  • Toni K

    toni k says

    This a collection of stories..some good some not so much.”

    posted 3 weeks ago

    (read toni k’s review)

  • Kristy F

    kristy f says

    Quick read

    posted Tuesday, January 8 2008

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