Look. It didn't take me 6 months to read this book. I lost it on the bus, found it, gave it back to the library, had to wait ages for it to be on the shelves again and huzzah! Reborrowed the book last week. I started it again from the beginning because let's be honest 'Shall We Dance?' isn't a book at makes an impact to stay in your memory retention part of brain. Au contraire, it's a book that keeps you company on these horrid winter nights. It's a fun filler book, between hard reads. And it was fluff and at times, ridiculous but I enjoyed it. It was horridly predictable, a woman going through the change, not in the book, no, in the content. And a who is desperately trying to look cool. Spot stupid references to the satorialist, vintage clothes, camden, and three-day camping music festivals. Does she wind up with her nearest and dearest rock star friend of 30 years or the 25-year-old? Read it to find out, seriously, it will take you a week. But if films like Notting Hill offend you, or any Hugh Grant ones for that matter, then stay away. Maggie Alderson is becoming the rom-coms of the literary world. And you can just see her writing begging pick me for the next Julia Roberts flick.Still, very much a guilty pleasure for me. I was disappointed with this book. The storyline was fine but the characters let me down.LouLou Landers is the Queen of Vintage Fashion in London and as she is about to turn 49 and not liking the idea she meets a young man who was interested in her but she does not know how to handle him. She has 2 best friends Chard, an aging rock star and Keith, a gay insurance man. The friends were great. Theo who drove me crazy as she was so rude to her mother and her friends and I really did not like LouLou very much either especially the fact that she had not really gotten over her divirce 20 years ealier. She has never bought a man home so no wonder her daughter does not seem to like men??So after being frustrated through the whole book over Theo and LouLou it has a good ending that brought it up to a 3.
What do You think about Shall We Dance? (2010)?
Another predictable M.Alderson. It was an easy read, enjoyable, but predictable.
—jason
It grew on me - slow starter, but worth the effort.
—MyInspirationz
