book 17

Getting Warmer by Carol Snow
282 pages

I loved this book.  Getting Warmer is about a woman named Natalie Quakenbush, a high school English teacher who invents stories to tell in the bar scene for entertainment.  That's all well and good until she meets Jonathan, a guy she actually likes, but has already spun her tales and now has to come clean.  For the record, I am a high school Social Studies teacher, so a lot of what I read resonated with me - feeling like you aren't making a difference, parent involvement, connections with kids who can't see their own potential - and I really enjoyed that.

I was extremely interested in what would happen in the story and I wanted to read it all the time.  It helps that it's baseball season and I can't watch TV again until September.  However, I think I would have chosen to read this without having the TV occupied by the Mets.

Natalie seems incredibly real.  She could be any woman, she is true and not at all forced.  None of the characters in the book are forced, at that.  I really enjoyed that everyone had traditional names - Natalie, Shelly, Jill, Robert - I really hate the license authors take with bizarro names these days.

Overall I was extremely pleased with this book and I will be recommending it to some teacher friends who enjoy chick lit like me :)