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Getting Personal PB

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What a funny book! I could not put it down for a minute. I picked it up one day, read a couple of paragraphs at random, and was hooked. A book that can make you laugh out loud, over and over,...well, in my estimation, that's a good book . I have recommended this book to everyone I know. Don't miss it, you will be sorry you did.

Sequel! Sequel!

GETTING PERSONAL is a delightful reading experience. It is a funny book with some suprises and human blunders. Monique is a very real character who comes alive under the author's pen and makes one feel as if you know her. Her relationship with her mother is one of respect and frustration. Other relationships ( with her boss, best friend and boyfriend )are both filled with surprises and humorous errors; but remain quite believable. I really enjoyed the book.

Diane Amos spins a delighful tale of Monique, a young woman with lofty goals, whose life gets more complicated at every turn. Her own hilarious blunders while trying to impress her boss that she has the makings of a star reporter, added to the antics of her loving family who keep her constantly in hot water are beginning to shatter her normally calm and positive attitude. What does all that have to do to her love life with Jake the cop? Getting Personal is the happy book we've all been waiting to read. I loved it.

Getting Personal is a well written book. I haven't read a book I've enjoyed so much in such a long time. I like Monique and how she gets into trouble without trying. The parrot gives us a few good laughs too.

Her mother is so much like all mothers who want the best for their children. It's how she went about it that kept me laughing all the way through.

I hope we see more of Monique in the future!

I enjoyed this book and hated to see that I had reached the last page of the story and am now awaiting the sequel to Getting Personal. I found myself laughing out loud when I read of all the adventures Monique got herself into. I even found myself identifying with Monique on some of her problems. This book is a must for anyone that would like to have some laughter in their life.

One of the funniest books I've read in a long time. Monique is definately going to give Stephanie Plum a run for her money. Getting Personal is worth every dime.

I just loved this book! It's full of humor. The characters are brilliantly written. It's one of those books that once picked up you don't want to put it down.

Monique St. Cyr is an expert dieter, or at least would be if she could just stay away from junk food. A reporter for a local tabloid, she has plans to make it as an investigative reporter, even though her present postion is the obituary writer. Still, that doesn't stop Monique looking for the big story. During this quest, she leaps head long from one problem to the next. Then to add further complications to her life, she meets Jake, a sexy cop in a uniform. Add to the cast of characters, Anne Marie, Monique's erotic romance writer mother. Anne Marie is better known to her readers as Busty Galour. She enters Monique's name into the online personals as part of her reseach for her next novel about couple who meet over the internet.

A great first novel that will have you laughing out loud, truning the pages as you go!

Monique St. Cyr dreams of becoming an investigative reporter, but currently works the obituary column for the Portland Enquirer. Next door lives her mother Anne Marie, who is better known as erotic fiction writer Busty Galore. As Busty, Anne Marie uses her daughter's identity to seem sexier and to obtain information on online dating for her new novel. One day after Monique leaves for work, Anne Marie enters her daughter's house to check the email as she put out a feeler for men to contact Monique. However, Monique comes home, hears a noise, panics and calls 911. Police officer Jake Dube answers the call that turns out to be a false alarm.

Jake starts dating Monique, as he is very attracted to her. To stay out of trouble at work, Monique concocts a plot where she pretends to have a street informer looking for money for information. Her editor funds her to buy the information. Monique hides her loot in a birdcage, but her foul-mouthed fowl chews the money into pieces. As she struggles to find a survival path, Monique dives from one problem into a deeper dilemma while losing Jake because the man she loves no longer trusts her.

Though the lies told by Monique will bother some readers, this chick lit tale is enhanced by the lead character's online dating fiasco. Jake is a wonderful hunk and Monique's mother is a work of art, but the tale belongs to the lead heroine who goes at one speed: full warp into an abyss of spiraling trouble regardless of personal consequences.

Harriet Klausner

Monique St. Cyr dreams of becoming an investigative reporter, but currently works the obituary column for the Portland Enquirer. Next door lives her mother Anne Marie, who is better known as erotic fiction writer Busty Galore. As Busty, Anne Marie uses her daughter's identity to seem sexier and to obtain information on online dating for her new novel. One day after Monique leaves for work, Anne Marie enters her daughter's house to check the email as she put out a feeler for men to contact Monique. However, Monique comes home, hears a noise, panics and calls 911. Police officer Jake Dube answers the call that turns out to be a false alarm.

Jake starts dating Monique, as he is very attracted to her. To stay out of trouble at work, Monique concocts a plot where she pretends to have a street informer looking for money for information. Her editor funds her to buy the information. Monique hides her loot in a birdcage, but her foul-mouthed fowl chews the money into pieces. As she struggles to find a survival path, Monique dives from one problem into a deeper dilemma while losing Jake because the man she loves no longer trusts her.

Though the lies told by Monique will bother some readers, this chick lit tale is enhanced by the lead character's online dating fiasco. Jake is a wonderful hunk and Monique's mother is a work of art, but the tale belongs to the lead heroine who goes at one speed: full warp into an abyss of spiraling trouble regardless of personal consequences.

Harriet Klausner

One of the funniest books I've read in a long time. Monique is definately going to give Stephanie Plum a run for her money.
There seems to be a publishing error with the words back seat being substituted for blonde. The error first occurs on page 53, where it reads: ...two large plastic bags of empty bottles into the blonde of my vehicle. For me, these errors added to the humor. Getting Personal is worth every dime.