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    Jonathan Unleashed

    By Meg Rosoff

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    Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him – only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. At least his two flatmates understand him – but they only speak dog.

    Poor Jonathan. The world wasn't this confusing back in the good old days before everyone expected him to act like a person. But one thing's for sure: if he can make it in New York City, he can make it anywhere. Will he get out of advertising, meet the girl of his dreams and figure out the meaning of life?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateFeb 11, 2016
    ISBN9781408870808
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    Jonathan Unleashed
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    Meg Rosoff

    Meg Rosoff is a hugely versatile novelist for children and adults and has won the Branford Boase Award, the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Printz Award. Her post-apocalyptic How I Live Now was made into a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Picture Me Gone was shortlisted for the National Book Award in the USA. Originally from Massachusetts, Meg now lives in London.

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    • 4/5
      This is an adorable story about a young man, Johnathan Trefoil, who is alienated from his job and his girlfriend, and projects his feelings onto the two dogs he is taking care of for his brother. Claiming they must be suffering from some sort of weltschmerz, he and the dogs become "regulars" at a nearby veterinarian's office. When Jonathan first got his job working as a junior copywriter in an advertising firm, he had looked forward to the work, not counting on the trivial and demeaning things “you were expected to do in exchange for money.” And no one likes his girlfriend, not even him, but he agrees to marry her because that seems like what one should do as part of being a “grown-up.” But he becomes increasingly anxious, and often hilariously so, as the date for the wedding approaches.Eventually, Jonathan decides to follow his heart in all aspects of his life, no matter that some of his choices are quite unexpected, even to Jonathan.Evaluation: Jonathan is an endearing character, the dogs even more so, and the dialogue is very clever and witty. Both Jim and I read this, and often laughed out loud. Film rights have been optioned, which is delightful news.
    • 4/5
      Quirky story about Jonathan, a young man (20's) who marches to a different drummer. Has a job in NYC he hates, a girlfriend he's going to marry because it's the grown up thing to do, and is taking care of his brother's dogs for six months. The dogs are the only fulfillment in his life and he invests a lot of time in mental telepathy with them, assuming he knows what they are thinking. It's really a coming of age story as he realizes that he has to take control of his life and find his own path rather than wanting others to tell him what that path is. It is a delightful read, funny and insightful. Anyone who loves dogs will love this story.
    • 4/5
      Jonathan is finished college. Time for his New York adventure. In advertising. He gets a job at the same firm where his best friend works. He gets an apartment in lower Manhattan that is just a bit too good to be true. And at some point his beautiful and thoroughly business-like girlfriend, Julie, will move to New York as well and everything will be perfect. Or it would be if Jonathan didn’t also have responsibility for two dogs, Dante and Sissy, which his brother left in his care when he went off to work in Dubai. Actually, the dogs are no problem. Jonathan loves the dogs and they seem to like him. It’s just that they don’t seem to like Julie. Oh, and he hates his job. And he’s afraid that underworld figures will arrive on his doorstep and insist that he give up his apartment on extremely short notice. And now Julie’s decided that they should take advantage of an opportunity from her employer, the magazine Bridal-360, to stage a live-streamed wedding; they should just go ahead and get married. But who would he invite to his funeral? Wait, did he say, “funeral?” Obviously he meant, “wedding.” Well, you can fill in the rest.This is a delightfully light and frothy Chucklit novel. The wonder is that Meg Rosoff has penned it. Why? Is she simply so blessed with talent that she can toss off a quintessential Chucklit novel with her morning’s second coffee? Actually, yes, I think that’s probably the explanation.Go ahead, enjoy it with a coffee and a croissant.
    • 3/5
      Here we have a simple, fun read. Jonathan hates his job, might love his girlfriend, and is asked to dogsit his brother's two dogs for 6 months. There are comedic moments, touching moments in his NYC lifestyle. It's not a book on brain surgery, but a quick, amusing read. My thanks to Penguin's First to Read program for a complimentary copy.
    • 5/5
      I recommend this book to anyone who needs a mood lift. Great fun!