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Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780767905183
ISBN: 0767905180
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: June 05, 2001
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: June 05, 2001
Studio: Broadway
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Editorial Review:
Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima finds that her only consolation is food. Add to this her passion for her charming, sexy, and unobtainable colleague Ben, and Jemima knows her life is in need of a serious change. When she meets Brad, an eligible California hunk, over the Internet, she has the perfect opportunity to reinvent herself–as JJ, the slim, beautiful, gym-obsessed glamour girl. But when her long-distance Romeo demands that they meet, she must conquer her food addiction to become the bone-thin model of her e-mails–no small feat.
With a fast-paced plot that never quits and a surprise ending no reader will see coming, Jemima J is the chronicle of one woman's quest to become the woman she's always wanted to be, learning along the way a host of lessons about attraction, addiction, the meaning of true love, and, ultimately, who she really is.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - For my first Jane Green Novel it's OK!
I, too, was a little sad in the beginning. Being an overweight JJ, I so wanted her to embrace her curviness. I enjoyed her relationship with Brad, but thought the reason it ended was silly and unrealistic, unless people are really that superficial. I wouldn't know. I have learnt to love my curves however JJ has motivated me to become healthy and not obsessed.
Rating:  - Sorry Disappointment
How sad I felt beginning the reading of this book. What an opportunity Jane Green missed in dealing with this very important subject of BODY IMAGE issues. She convoluted the real story by adding what I think surely must be a fantasy of her own related to internet porn and foul language. I was intending to use this in a very meaningful discussion on eating disorders but was so disappointed in the beginning that I abandoned the book. Too bad for Jane Green.
Rating:  - LOVED IT!!!!
such a great book!
very fast entertaining read.
LOVED THE ENDING.
the characters are very likeable and fell in love with the main guy in novel :D
Rating: - A quick, fun read, but not much more
At 27, Jemima Jones is desperately unhappy. She's about 100 pounds overweight, stuck in a menial newspaper job, lives with two ditzy roommates who take advantage of her, and worst of all, suffers from unrequited love for her handsome colleague Ben. What's a girl to do?
At her lowest, Jemima discovers the Internet and all its possibilities. Visiting random chatrooms, Jemima can talk to all sorts of people, being whomever she pleases.
It's in the LA Cafe that Jemima meets ... Read More
Rating: - Could have been better
I am on the fence about this book. There were times I almost stopped reading. Jemima Jones was an intersting character, defined and realistic, I feel like I really know her. The twist in the plot was a good one too. However, I feel like the author was too descriptive on many insignificant details, and did not spend enough time refelcting on the important stuff. For Example: Jemima lost all the weight in just about the same amount of pages it took Ben to do an interview. I wish there would have been ... Read More
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