Ask Again Later: A Novel | 
| Author: Jill A. Davis
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 52746
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0060875976
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060875978
ASIN: 0060875976
Publication Date: February 1, 2008
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Product Description
Emily has a tendency to live with one foot out the door. When her mother dramatically announces, "They've found a lump," Emily gladly leaves behind her career, her boyfriend, and those pesky, unanswerable questions about who she is and what she's doing with her life to be by her mother's side. But back in her childhood bedroom, Emily realizes that she hasn't run fast or far enough—especially when she opens the door, quite literally, to find her past staring her in the face.
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 it was perfect for exactly what is is....short and very witty/funny October 3, 2008
i loved it all the way through...quick read just the right amount of laughs i needed for that few days,,,
 Didn't do it for me September 30, 2008
I was pretty surprised to see so many rave reviews of this book. I was left disappointed. I was expecting razor sharp wit and humor combined with compassion, and I found Jill's writing to be dull and unoriginal. The story line was full of characters that I've read a thousand times and I didn't have sympathy for any of them (nor did I really like any of them).
This story has been done before, and done much better. Save yourself the money and skip it.
 A very very tedious read September 24, 2008
This was very disapointing read because I'd really enjoyed Jill A davis's first book "Girl's Poker Night ".
It was dull, dull, dull.I gave up about half way through, when I realised I didn't really care what happened to any of the characters.
Couldn't get through it. July 23, 2008
I was very bored with this book, and it was very difficult to follow, she writes like a person thinks and goes off in too many directions.
A Disjointed Beginning with a Better Ending. . . June 30, 2008
I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed. I wanted so badly to like Ask Again Later because I seem to remember liking Girls Poker Night so much when I read it a few years ago. Apparently it was not to be.
I read a lot, and even though I sometimes read on a rush hour bus, I'd like to think I'm not incapable of keeping track of a book's plot and sequence of events. But I found the book to be very disjointed, as I believe another reviewer mentioned. I was not sure in the beginning whether it was taking place in present day or in looking back, especially in terms of her father and where she was working. I figured it out soon enough, but why should that have been so difficult. The transitions just seemed to be lacking, especially from the start, which I guess put me in the wrong mindset to enjoy the rest of the book.
The characters - I didn't love them. Didn't really like them very much in fact. I can understand lack of commitment and wanting to escape, surely -- (I read and love Anne Tyler's books, after all) -- but Emily didn't really do anything to make me like her, in spite of her faults. And honestly, aside from a few, funny oddities and quirks about her "new" place of employment, I wasn't really laughing.
I will admit, though, that my opinion of the book greatly changed during the final third of the book. I think Davis found her voice, as Emily began to find herself. Transitions were clearer. The plot flowed more easily. In fact, if the first two parts of the book were any more like the third, I think I would have enjoyed this book quite a lot. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.
I picked up Ask Again Later without reading reviews on it because I had liked Davis' previous book and that was good enough for me. This book wasn't horrible. There was nothing particularly bad; there just wasn't anything that made me stand up and say "wow" either. Regardless, I probably will pick up her next novel when she writes one in the future and give it a try.
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