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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A fun update to The Taming of the Shrew - even more appreciated after reading an interview with Tyler about her struggle with Shakespeare's original treatment of Kate. Hopefully someone in Hollywood picks this up as a good rom-com. As usual with Tyler's more upbeat novels the protagonist starts off stuck and then works their way to getting unstuck. Charming and zips right along. And I just loved Ptyor's question "why would you want to attract flies?" when Kate shares the American saying that "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar." ( ) I thought I'd enjoy a retelling of Taming of the Shrew by an author whose work I have enjoyed in the past; instead I felt like I wasted my reading time on a childish and completely unmoving "romance". I gave it two stars because I finished it but honestly, had it taken me more than a day to read it I'd have been more irritated and knocked it down to one. Anne Taylor is my favorite author, and this one is my favorite so far. Vinegar Girl is Anne Taylor's take on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Kate Barrista is stuck in an unsatisfactory life. She started college to be a botanist. But. when she argued with a professor over a basic principle of botany, the professor left college. Her aunt found her a job as a kindergarten assistant but that was not her thing, and she rebelled against the school's rules of behavior. Now, on probation again, she still prepared her father's lunch for him to take to the lab and made a "meat mash" for dinner with her father and her teenage sister. Her father was very well known for his work in autoimmune research and gave up teaching to devote full-time attention to that. He finally found an assistant that he could work with and there was one drawback, Pyotr's Visa was almost up. He wants Kate to marry Pyotr to keep him on the project. It is the only solution. You will find dialogue so engaging that you will want to say the lines out loud and rock with laughter all the way through this book. I am sure that you will love this book! inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML:Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeareâ??s most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, sheâ??s always in trouble at work â?? her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents donâ??t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. Thereâ??s only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, all would be lost. When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, heâ??s relying â?? as usual â?? on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time heâ??s really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two menâ??s touchingly ludicrous Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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