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    Boy Meets Girl

    By Meg Cabot

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    About this ebook

    Meet Kate Mackenzie. She:

    • works for the T.O.D. (short for TyrannicalOffice Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins,Director of the Human Resources Divisionat the New York Journal)
    • is sleeping on the couch because herboyfriend of ten years refuses to commit
    • can't find an affordable studio apartmentanywhere in New York City
    • thinks things can't get any worse.

    They can. Because:

    • the T.O.D. is making her fire the most popularemployee in the paper's senior staff dining room
    • that employee is now suing Kate for wrongfultermination, and
    • now Kate has to give a deposition in front ofMitch Hertzog, the scion of one of Manhattan's wealthiest law families,who embraces everything Kate most despises ... but also happens to have a nice smile and a killer bod.

    The last thing anybody -- least of all Kate Mackenzie -- expects to findin a legal arbitration is love. But that's the kind of thing that canhappen when ... Boy Meets Girl.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061809323
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    Boy Meets Girl
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    Meg Cabot

    MEG CABOT’s many books for both adults and teens have included numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers, with more than twenty-five million copies sold worldwide. Her Princess Diaries series was made into two hit films by Disney, with a third movie coming soon. Meg currently lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband and various cats.

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    Reviews for Boy Meets Girl

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    • 5/5
      One of my most favourite books to read growing up! :D
    • 3/5
      was ok just didn't like that it was all emaily. didn't finish book.
    • 4/5
      Kate MacKenzie's life is kind of sucking. She just broke up with the only guy she's ever been with, her loser boyfriend Dale, who despite being with Kate for some 10 years can't muster a real committment. Now she's living on her best friend's couch and working as a Human Resources Rep for a Tyrannical Office Despot (T.O.D.). If all that isn't bad enough, Kate has to fire the lovable Mrs. Lopez, her office's dessert-maker who happens to have some rigid moral concerns about who is worthy of her desserts. When she's involved in Mrs. Lopez's wrongful termination lawsuit she finds herself falling in love (lust?) with the company's despicable (or is he?) lawyer.Though the book is told entirely through e-mail, voice mail messages, notes written on receipts, journal entries, and the like, Cabot manages to use these things to help you get to know and love her characters (or hate them, as required for some, of course). Sure the characters are exaggerated...the good ones very, very good and the bad ones quite absurdly miserable, but Kate and her foibles are laugh out loud funny. It's pretty obvious how things will turn out, but that doesn't keep you from rooting for her as she struggles to act like a normal person in front of the guy she likes, deal with the T.O.D., and find an affordable apartment in Manhattan not on the same block as a methadone clinic. All in all - a ridiculous but lovable tale that kept me laughing.Leafing Through Life
    • 1/5
      The most annoying book I have ever read. I can’t understand how some body can publish something like that. Bad, bad bad.
    • 3/5
      2.5
    • 4/5
      read years ago..keep reading it back since.real laugh out loud book.I can just start at any page n get carried away by the antics of the main character...Just wish meg cabot wrote more like this and the guy next door..love them both...!!!
    • 4/5
      very fine
    • 4/5
      This was a hilarious one. Our protagonist - Mel Fuller is a gossip columnist and quite the girl next door - compassionate, pet lover, concerned neighbour, well... a do-gooder. An unforeseen catastrophe lands her into a situation that will have you both rolling around laughing yourself silly as well as wanting to jump right into the book and shake some sense into Mel.

      Enter the prince charming...he's everything a girl could want, but he's not who he says he is.

      Pets out of control, job on the line, a heart gone awry and a mystery to solve. Can the plot get any better?

      Meg spins such a fine tale of love, deception and everything in between. You would not want to put this one down. It's a great book to read and I would recommend you get a copy for yourself now. :)
    • 5/5
      Very entertaining story completely told from written communication such as email, IM's, journal or phone messages. It was light in romance but all the humor made up for it. Kate if forced to fire the company baker and attorney Mitch handles the resulting lawsuit.
    • 3/5
      Oh, Meg Cabot. You have such a knack. I am not a big chick lit reader but I always love her books. Always! I read it on a Sunday evening, at the end of a bad weekend. Also, This was the same day as I read Asterix in Dutch, so, by some stretch, I read two books in one day. Fun.
    • 4/5
      A quick read. I enjoyed it. Only thing I missed was what happened to Amy.
      Did she break up with Stuart? her friend did not reply to her calls anymore.
      Too bad the ending did not include that. it would have been fun if the third book would have been about Amy Jenkins who played a mayor lead in the first 2 books.
      3.5 stars.
    • 4/5
      I picked up this book at exactly the right time. It was light and humorous and unique. The fact that I was able to be so completely invested in a story that was told solely through emails, IMs and journal entries really surprised me. Just a really fast fun read that may not be for everyone, but I thought it was a hoot.

    • 4/5
      Out of the Boy trilogy, I’d have to say that I like this book the best. The characters are very relatable, Kate and Mitch have a great chemistry throughout the story. There are some down points—again, the best friend character only seems to have one continuing subplot (this time, getting pregnant) with no real further development aside from “the best friend.” I also really didn’t like Amy Jenkins’ or Stuart’s characterization; I realize that they’re supposed to be the antagonists, but the way they acted bordered on being stereotypes, even in their back-and-forths. What really saves the book is Kate—she’s more down-to-earth than Mel or Jane, and I could really see her conflicted nature about what she was supposed to do and doing what she knew was right. (And also, funny! Genuinely laughed a lot more at this.)
    • 4/5
      This is typical chick lit, but I enjoy it because it was my first chick lit ever and I love it still the same. This is completely predictable in every single way, but I love it the way I love chick flicks. Quick & easy read if you're looking for something light.
    • 4/5
      I thought that this was a very easy, humorous read. It's the type of book that keeps you laughing and not wanting to put it down. Cabot creates these characters, such as Kate, that you want to sympathize with. They seem like your friend that you want to hang out with and continue to read about and help solve their problem. Boy Meets Girl is not your traditional type of book. This is a book that is written in well thought out emails and voicemails, and Cabot does it in such a way that allows you to get intimate with Kate.
    • 3/5
      Boy Meets Girl is a modernized epistolary novel. So, the text is composed of emails, journals, notes between characters, etc. The format is very interesting, and it is a generally good story. As the title tells us, it's the basic "boy meets girl" tale. However, the format kicks it up a notch. I would recommend it for light, entertaining reading.
    • 3/5
      This was listed as recommended reading in the chicklit genre, which I haven't read a lot in, but I did love Bridget Jones Diary, the template for this sort of fiction. Like that book, this is about life, love and career from a female point of view in a contemporary urban setting, in this case New York City. Also like Bridget Jones it's fluffy and light, and in an unconventional narrative structure. The book opens with a draft business letter, complete with strike outs, by twenty-something Kate MacKenzie of human resources at a New York City newspaper. She works for a boss known as T.O.D. among her colleagues (Tyrannical Office Despot) and gets involved in a lawsuit (and with the lawyer involved). There are some smile-worthy and witty lines, but the format irritated me. There aren't just letters but to-do-lists, transcripts of instant messages, phone messages, meetings, dispositions, as well as emails, signs, menus, receipts, reports, memos, journal entries (in script font)--a dizzying array of formats that unlike Bridget Jones diary entries left me increasingly annoyed and unable to settle into the story. Too fluffy, too far-fetched, too reminiscent of teen fan fiction for my tastes.
    • 3/5
      I like the style of this book. It was very entertaining and a quick read. Perfect for reading by the pool on a hot summer day. Kate is very engaging. This book lends a hysterical slant to sibling relationships. Mitch is a perfect leading man and Amy is a woman you love to hate. She's the boss every one has had at some point or another. It's wonderful to see her get her comeuppance.
    • 4/5
      This book does a whole story without narrative, it's all written communication, whether on paper or electronically, and it's brilliant. I loved the easy, direct language and the fastness of the read (one very short session is all it took to get through this). The story was nothing original, but well told and enjoyable enough, mainly because of the excellent and mercifully small cast.
    • 4/5
      This is a quick, amusing read, complete with romantic entanglement. This story is told entirely through email, IM, notes, and the occasional phone message. Which just goes to show that the epistolary novel is not dead in the electronic age! Occasional cursing.
    • 4/5
      An adult Meg Cabot title this is told in the form of emails, IM's, letters, diary entries and other such items that doccument the life and woes of Kate MacKenzie. There are times that you wonder why she would be writing at this time but this is the pivot around which the book is written.The other two main characters are Ida Lopez, a provider of cakes to those she deems worthy and when she refuses Stuart Hertzog, a lawyer one of her cakes it sets in motion a series of events that cause Katie to come into contact with Mitch Hertzog, the brother of that lawyer and a completely different person.
    • 4/5
      This is another love story. (Hence the title.) But I really liked this book because unlike other Meg Cabot books, this one is written entirely on e-mails, txt, or IM. It was really cool. The story is funny. There are 2 story lines: one, about Kate Mackenzie and her work life. Two, about Mitch Hertzburger and his family drama. It turns out Mitch's brother, which he has a rocky relationship with, is egaged to Kate's boss.
    • 4/5
      Another cute one in e-mail format
    • 5/5
      Meg Cabot is ridiculously hilarious.Anyway, I don't really remember what this book is about. Some sort of romance, I guess.The only thing I can really talk about is the writing style. The whole story is told in instant messages, emails, memos, letters, etc. It's amazing! I love quirky writing styles and this book is definitely a great example. It's the third person omniscient but maybe a bit less omniscient. Anyway, lovely book. I'm sure it was a great story, whatever it was.
    • 3/5
      A love story told completely in emails, instant-message chats, and phone messages. This book was a decent read, but the characters acted so much like teenagers that it was unbelievable at times. I think Cabot should stick to The Princess Diaries, although I want to read the prequel, The Boy Next Door.
    • 2/5
      I loved the style of this, a modern epistolatory romance using IM, email, and diary entries.But I found it hard to empathise with the main characters, I found them silly and immature considering the career positions and life experience they supposedly held. Towards the end, although the characters become more well rounded, I found the nasty incidents of racism and homophobia jarring in the fluffy context.
    • 3/5
      Very quick read. It was an unusual format, as the story was told through emails and memos, but it was easy to follow and interesting.
    • 5/5
      Very cute book. I like Cabot writing style & and characters.
    • 4/5
      This book does a whole story without narrative, it's all written communication, whether on paper or electronically, and it's brilliant. I loved the easy, direct language and the fastness of the read (one very short session is all it took to get through this). The story was nothing original, but well told and enjoyable enough, mainly because of the excellent and mercifully small cast.
    • 4/5
      Like the book e, this is also a modern epistolatory novel. Told through e-mail, instant-messenger conversations, journal entries, and memos, the action is quite fast-paced, and the book is an easy read. It's cute, but by no means does it require much thought.