Mixed feelings, Helen Fielding is gewoon een topper maar het is wel een heftig boek. Je wordt een beetje heen en weer geslingerd met je gevoelens.

this is a novel about a woman called rosie richardson.
she lives in londong,england.
she is in her twenties.
she has a boy friend called oliver marchant.
she is living a great life.
she then hears about the people in africa who are suffering from hunger and starvation and she does not know what to do.
she wants to help them but does not know how to do so.
she then goes to ethiopia , which is a country in africa and tries to help the poor people over there who are sufferings so much with no fault of their own , it is a muslim country.
she is unable to do any thing.
she asks her boy friend for help and then she goes back to london,england.
her boy friend says he needs to three weeks do any thing.
she then involves the media into it.
she brings in celebrities into the project and that is how she is able to help the people dying of hunger and starvation .
the celebrities come in and help people.
this novel was nothing great!.

Rosie Richardson works at a refugee camp in Nambula, Africa, where she's been for the last four years after breaking off a toxic relationship with the famous television man Oliver Merchant in London. It took me a while to get into this book, as it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a serious look at starvation in the Third World, or Bridget Jones Goes to Africa (yes, I know it was written before Bridget Jones's Diary, but you get my drift). Some parts were very funny, and others made me feel like Fielding was trying to browbeat me into donating to charity. At first it stirred my compassion, but by the end it felt more like a lecture than a story. Fielding also relied a bit too heavily on dialect for differentiation, turning her characters into charicatures. Still, there was a fair bit of humor and reasonably engrossing drama; this was certainly not a bad first novel, but I can understand why Bridget Jones is so much more popular.

Ehhhhh… the only thing that kept me reading was the plight of the starving Africans. The rest of the book was quite predictable and Hallmark-y. If that’s your thing, then this is the book for you. I just like books with a little more meaning to them. I did giggle a few times from the clever lines and characters. I did appreciate that it shows famous people as the selfish rich that they often are. Not sure how much of this book is “real”. I know it’s fiction but I wonder if there was any research into geography, people, starvation.
This book is about Rosie Richardson, who is dating this famous jerk. She can’t seem to shake him, which is annoying. Ends up going to Africa to get away but also to help. Gets involved in the cause there to help the starving refugees. Governments and aid organizations fail to provide enough food and medicine. She takes it upon herself to go back to Europe and try to get the famous idiots she once socialized with to sponsor food. They of course want to make a tv program about it. They end up going to Africa and saving lots of people. She of course finally ditches the jerk and ends up with the nice guy, the doctor.
Not a bad book but I just wasn’t enthralled. I was bored a few times.

Chic lit with a serious side, but still easy/fun to read. The characters are brought to life by their idiosyncrasies, and the plot had enough twists to keep me hooked. But my favorite thing by far were Fielding’s spot-on observations about relationships/the curious mind games between men and women. It’s humbling to think that this was her debut novel!

After working as a literary publicist in London and dating a famous television personality, Rosie Richardson decides she is sick of the glitz and glamour and superficial people. She uproots her life and moves to Africa where she runs a refugee camp. With a massive food shortage and more and more refugees entering the camp, Rosie returns back to the celebrity community for help. This is the debut novel of Helen Fielding, author of the Bridget Jones series.

I so wanted to like this book but I just could never figure out what it was trying to be. Parts of it read like a typical chick lit novel and the other parts showed a serious side, tackling the issue of famine in Africa. For whatever reason the combining of the two different styles just didn't work for me. While I was interested in Rosie's work in Africa at first, by the last 100 pages, I just wanted the book to be over. I think this is a case of a book starting off with good intentions and a deep meaning but falling short in execution. I say pass on this book even if you are a fan of Fielding's other novels.

Brilliant read

What a strange book. On the one hand it's a pure chick-lit story about a naive woman in a sort-of relationship with a narcissist celeb, on the other hand it's a description of the hardships in an African refugee camp. The two are woven together, at first with flashbacks and in the end the storylines merge. It makes for an awkward book to be honest, I didn't know what to make of it. I'm sure this juxtaposition was intentional, but the chick-lit part got on my nerves, and it's never fun to wade through bureaucracy in Africa. After a while though the African part turned very grim, and I actually got interested in finding out what was happening there. Fielding gives credit to a number of NGOs, I gather that the picture she paints is based on reality. I tend to go for escapist literature, but her descriptions of this situation caught my interest and made me think about something I admittedly tend to avoid.
Still, it's not a book I either enjoyed or would recommend, the mix in genres just didn't work for me.

c'étais intéressant mais écrit un peu sommairement, l'auteur ne pousse pas assez dans les détails

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Une lecture de peu d'intérêt...

I wanted to like this book, it just didn't come together for me. It was not believable.