Sushi for Beginners - Marian Keyes

Sushi For Beginners is the first book by Marian Keyes that I have read. I am a bit funny about "chick lit" (God someone please invent another moniker) - I will happily read anything that is moderately well written, but if I sense it is trying to sucker punch me with things like deep thought I find it a turn off. For instance, I recently read a book by Fay Weldon. Never having read Weldon either, I was lulled into a false sense of security by the ...
...disturbing treatise on modern feminism with an ending as harrowing in its own way as Rosemary's Baby. This angered me. I do not like being tricked into deep contemplation. It's like sitting down to a frothy rom-com only to find it's actually a documentary about Rwanda. Am I concerned with deeper issues, yes of course, but escapist, relatively vapid literature is there for a reason. Sophie Kinsella and Helen Fielding are in my opinion excellent at ...

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...has dealt with herself. Sushi for beginners is no different as it covers areas such as depression and illness. *About the Book* Lisa Edwards, Ashling Kennedy and Clodagh Kelly are all searching for happiness. Their lives in the city of Dublin are of a complete different nature despite their associations with each other. Lisa Edwards is working her way to the top of her profession. She is editor of "Femme" magazine in London and has high expectations ...
...magazine. Her dreams are crushed, when she is summoned to the MD's office and is practically forced to take up a job as editor of a new magazine called "Colleen" in Dublin. Still struggling to come to terms with her failed marriage, Lisa takes her stuck up and selfish attitude to Dublin to unleash it on her new colleagues. She feels trapped, bored, alone and extremely unhappy, although she is too proud to ever let anyone know that! Ashling Kennedy ...

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Another great from Marian Keyes but we don't expect anything less now. This book is set in dublin and is centred round three strong women. Ashling ******** Ashling is a woman lacking in self comfidence and has just been sacked from her prievious job for making a mistake in one of her colums she told readers to remove a cranberry stain from her sofa using lemon juice and it ruined it but she landed the job of deputy editor in a new magazine called ...
...bag full of plasters and paracetamol and other handy things. Her self description is an ordinary girl who doesn't have a waist Lisa ***** Lisa is a sucessful editor with femme magazine but she is highly unpopular with the staff as she is often rude and overpowering so the bosses decide to move her to dublin for the challenge of editing and setting up Collen. at first you hate her as she prides herself on her rude remarks and putting people down ...

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The other day I went to a church Christmas faire. After clearing my little tombola stall I had five minutes before the bingo began to go and have a quick look around what was left. Having sent my boyfriend to other stalls to buy numerous tickets there was one stall that I was looking forward to getting to, the book stall. With plenty of books let for 10p each I found several titles that looked like typical chick lit style books and picked them up ...
...bought £2 worth of books to keep me going until I go back to work on the 28th. So far I have read most of them but, 'Sushi for Beginners,' took the longest to read. A thick book I chose to leave it at my parent's house so that when I went up to my Grandma's in the afternoon to help with the housework I would have something to read when I was finished. The characters ************ We meet three main characters and follow them through their lives ...

kamallan 23.11.2006 · Read full review
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I finished reading Sushi for Beginners this morning and just have to say what an excellent book it is. I'm a fan of Marian Keyes work and find that each book that I read of hers is better than the last, this one certainly didn't disappoint. It tells the story of three women in Dublin, Lisa, Ashling and Clodagh. Lisa is a magazine editor who believes she is destined for wonderful things until she is put in charge of setting up a new women's magazine ...
...entire story togeteher. Sushi for Beginners follows the usual pattern of these kind of books in that it tells the story of these girls friendships and relationships but that's where it's similarity with other books of the same genre end. I found the plot of the book to be refreshingly different and new, it wasn't at all predictable like some of these books can be, you were left wondering until the end with a few shocks and surprises along the way. ...

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...the book is mysteriously buying sushi for his employees and tolerating piss ups in the office. What drugs has he been taking and where can I get some? LEAVE IT ON THE SHELF The stories have all been done before, just because you locate it in a magazine publisher’s office doesn’t give it originality. The characters are so familiar from trashy romance novels, as are the predictably happy endings. Nothing about the book is original and how Keyes managed ...

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...spot on, and I think Sushi For Beginners is her best book by far! Sushi For Beginners is a chick-lit novel revolving around three thirty-something women, who's lives are intertwined, but are very different. people They all share one thing though; they are unhappy with their lives. Lisa is a glamorous, glossy-haired dragon of a magazine editor, who's name incites fear and hatred throughout the magazine world. When her boss announces that she will ...
...upside down, and we have Sushi For Beginners.. I know that a lot of people will criticise this book. Lightweight, no substance, trashy, no depth, etc etc - it's not meant to be. Chick lit isn't meant to be meaningful, is it? You're going to get more substance from a Mr Men book! From my point of view, this is an enjoyable, fabulously unrealistic romp - sure, it's meant to be true to life, but you would never get all this over-the-top deception ...

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Well, this is the next book from Marian Keyes following the best selling Last Chance Saloon. I spent six long months waiting for this to be published and when the postman delivered it (day of release) a squeal of delight was issued, followed by the slamming of bedroom door with a 'Do Not Disturb' sign adhered to the handle!!!! The story is about Lisa a hard nosed magazine editor who has been put in charge of launching a new women's magazine called ...
...she was going to get a promotion to Editor of 'Manhatten' magazine, the New York 'Jewel in the Crown' of Randolph Media. But no, she is sent to quaint little Dublin who's shops' don't open till late (well you couldn't call them 'stores') and the taxi drivers think it's their right to know your business. Then there's Ashling (as in cigarette ash) Colleen's Assistant Editor who helps everyone and everything. She is forever worrying about having no ...

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...which is why I ordered Sushi for Beginners before it was released. For those of you who are interested I have written a bit about the author... Author Profile: ============== Brought up in Cork, Galway, Cavan and Dublin , Keyes left Ireland after completing a law degree and moved to London, working first as a waitress and then moving on to a more 'respectable' position in an accounts office. She spent most of her twenties battling with low self-esteem, ...
...Saloon, Angels, and her latest, Sushi for Beginners! Cast of characters include: -------------------------- High-maintenance London editor Lisa Edwards, thinks her life has ended when her 'fabulous' new job turns out to be deportation to Dublin, launching Colleen magazine. Her only consolation is her gorgeous new boss, Jack Devine. Much as she'd like to run right back out in her prada heels, she decides to stick with it because she just doesn't ...

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...for? Try it, you never know what you might be missing – a yummy treat just like the sushi that lends the book it’s name. But if you want to find out what that’s supposed to mean, you’ll have to read the book! Happy reading :) ...

mystikchick17 18.08.2004 · Read full review
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Having received this book free with a magazine recently, I decided to read it at home rather than at work (most of my work reading has been less girly type books). Since it was free on a magazine it is printed on thin paper with a smaller than usual typeset, which makes it hard to read if like me you happen to have been *mildly* inebriated! The story is fairly typical of Marian Keyes work, it focusses on three women who have vastly different lives. ...
...is hoping for a job in New York but her world which felt safe gets thrown in to turmoil when she is told that she isnt going to New York but to Dublin instead to start up a new womens magazine there, far from the dizzy heights she thought she was destined for. Ashling has been fired from her previous magazine but they have allowed her to continue working for them until she finds a new job. As the assistant hired to help Lisa start up the magazine ...

scuba_angel 15.08.2007 · Read full review
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Following a year in the life of three different women in Dublin, this book has all the hallmarks of what can only be described as the ‘Bridget Jones’ genre. However, at 563 pages it is a slightly more substantial read. So, what is it about? Lisa is a magazine editor believing her fabulous new job is in America. She is utterly disappointed to find herself being sent to Dublin to set up a new magazine. She is snooty, bitchy and practically ...
...subtle changes throughout the book and no matter how dreadful she appears she does have an endearing side. Ashling becomes the assistant editor of the new magazine. She couldn’t be more different to her new boss. She has a knack for picking the wrong guy and is a born worrier. As the story develops we learn the reason behind her ways and disaster strikes when she fells into a deep depression. Ironically, it is the person responsible for her ...

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This book took me a while to get into. The first chapter or two is when I decide if I am going to like the book or not, and I was at the stage with this one of wondering whether to keep reading, or to pick another book. I am glad I persisted and kept reading, as it got really addictive once I got into it. The book revolves around three main characters - Ashling, Lisa, and Clodagh - as well as several other characters scattered throughout the book. ...
...woman's magazine for giving out advice to a reader which involves the reader ruining their couch. She applies to a new magazine, 'Colleen', for the post of assistant editor - and gets the job. It is at Colleen that Ashling meets Lisa, a hard-faced ambitious editor, who has been relocated to Dublin from London - something she is really not happy about as she had hoped to get a job with 'Manhatten' - a publication in New York. Clodagh, Ashling's ...

jules.34 08.08.2008 · Read full review
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this is an enjoyable, addictive book with only the briefest of appearances by a bowl of sushi! the story is about the lives of three women and a fledgling magazine. this doesn't sound that great in itself. the great part is the way that marian keyes builds up these characters giving them personalities, dilemmas and life choices until you feel that they could be people you know and like or dislike. colleen, is a trendy new dublin magazine that needs ...
...is editor of femme, based in london. some would say that she is a bitch, mostly those who work for her. she's a ruthless workaholic, expert in bitchy put downs, stealing other people's ideas, strategic charm and putting a lot of work into her stunning appearance. to her shock she is seconded to be editor of colleen. lisa's world crahses in she feels she is being sent to the 'magazine version of siberia''. after all her sacrifices and hard work she ...

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...by Marian Keyes, make it Sushi for Beginners, on the pure virtue that the characters don't meld into one indistinguishable puddle of human woe in this one (they have their own puddles). The book centres around three main characters, all with divergent lives and personalities, whose fortunes end up intersecting. There's the timid Irish girl wanting to make something of herself, meticulously organised but lacking in confidence, searching for her big ...
...I don't think so. If you read more of Keyes' work, you will notice the same expressions/turns of phrase, but they seem much more out of place in Sushi for Beginners. To sum up: a decent holiday read, and one of the more diverting offerings from Marian Keyes. ...

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