Nora Roberts

You've got to figure out the way a man's brain works, or just run away screaming.

Author Nora Roberts has been surrounded by men her whole life, and she's come to the conclusion that the best thing to do is to put herself in a man's shoes. This is why most of her books are so in-depth when it comes to the male's perspective, which is much appreciated by readers.

Nora started out as a legal secretary in Keedysville, Maryland after school and found that this career wasn't fitting her. A few years later, she had two sons and became a stay-at-home mom.

While at home, Nora experimented here and there with different hobbies and skills until she was actually forced to sit down and write. In 1979 during a February blizzard, she was trapped in her house with her sons and nothing to do. She decided to try her hand in writing.

As her whole family enjoyed reading, Nora was quite a reader herself. She knew some of the tricks of the trade. After several manuscripts and rejections, that one blizzard paid off, and her writing career was born in 1981 with Irish Thoroughbred.

Nora has written 164 New York Times bestsellers and has published about 190 full-length novels. Her books have been published in over 34 countries and more than 400 million copies of her books are floating around in print copy worldwide.

What may have been destruction to some was a blessing to Nora Roberts when she found her niche as a writer during the Chicago Blizzard of 1979. Now she has enough novels to spread out from New York to Los Angeles 18 times!

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Boy Meets Girl

When boy meets girl, anything’s possible. . .

In Meg Cabot’s novel Boy Meets Girl, Kate Mackenzie is introduced to the man of all men, Mitch Hertzog. Mitch is the brother of Stuart Hertzog, who is engaged to Amy Jenkins, who is Kate’s boss, who hates her guts. Mitch is also the man who gets Kate fired from her job.

It all started when Ida Lopez, the Craft Food Services dessert cart operator for the New York Journal, refused dessert to “the” Stuart Hertzog, legal counsel to the Journal.

Kate has just broken up with her boyfriend of several years and is frantically searching for a new place to live, so she can stop mooching off of her best friend and her husband. While Kate has enough problems in her social life, Amy aka the T.O.D. (Tyrannical Office Despot) has decided to put her in charge of firing Ida. The other employees at the Journal love Ida and her desserts, including Kate.

Much to her dismay, Kate does as she is told and fires Ida. While she is trying to pick up the pieces of her life and continues to ignore her stalker ex, Kate soon discovers that Ida isn’t going to leave peacefully. Ida tries to sue for breach of contract.

This is when Mitch Hertzog and Kate Mackenzie meet, as he is the lawyer representing Kate and Amy. Mitch sets up a conference to interview Kate about the whole dilemma. After the meeting, however, the game changes for Mitch. Not only does he find himself attracted to Kate, but he also finds that Kate is on Ida’s side because she never thought she should have been fired in the first place, and he completely agrees.

Stuart finds out that his brother is doing work on the case behind his back and this work happens to side in favor of Ida instead of against. Then with much deception, Kate is blamed for not completing the proper steps in Ida’s termination, and everything comes tumbling down.

Boy Meets Girl is an awesome chick lit book that’s quite a different and unique read. This novel isn’t your typical chapter-and-paragraph-formed story. Although it has the typical plot structure of other books, this plot unfolds in the form of emails, instant messages, phone conversations, and letters. With much deceitful drama, handsome men, and crazy exes, this book will entertain its readers with many laughs along the way.