Physical and Non-Physical Methods of Solving Crystal Structures

by Jill Amy Rosenblatt

What's In A Name? Joan Benjamin, a plain and uptight secretary on Long Island, New York, is suffering an identity crisis brought on by a very bad week. Her ex-fiancejust married someone else;she's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0758223587
• ISBN13: 9780758223586
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

What's in a name?

When Joan Benjamin's life falls apart - all due to women named Jennifer - she decides the problem is her name. It should be Jennifer. So she becomes what she thinks a Jennifer is. But her life isn't any better - she's in the apartment from hell, her money is running out and her relationships are going downhill fast. Even her widowed mother has a boyfriend! There are many funny parts of this book. You might find yourself laughing out loud - which may cause curious looks if you're in public. With a big decision at the end, room is left for a sequel. All in all, a good book and Jill Rosenblatt has made Joan the new Jennifer.

engaging chick lit tale

Joan knows Nietzsche the late nineteenth century philosopher is at fault that her former fiancé Michael, whose relationship skills are shallower than a wading pool, married the "Jennifer", super person taking what she wants from the weak and meek. On top of losing Michael to a stronger predator, Joan's boss Fred Lutz, who attended the infamous wedding, fires her as she got the cushy job as a favor to Michael; he needs to give the job to a friend of Jennifer. Finally affirming bad things come in three, her landlord Christine kicks her out of the apartment because she needs it for her recently married niece. Joan is sick of being kicked to the curb. She vows to become Nietzsche's superwoman a Jennifer. However as she asserts herself, her friends and her widow mom thinks she is turning into an aggressive bitch. After interviews with Attila the Hun, Felix Unger and Madam Van Winkle, she obtains a new personal assistant position to Tim Wells while Project Jennifer succeeds. This is an engaging chick lit tale with a deep message of "to thine own self be true", which fascinatingly mirrors the tale; the heroine is at her most interesting as confused, flawed but likable Joan and at her least when she becomes a Jennifer clone. The support cast is solid especially her ex, her two best friends, her mom, and of course her image of the Jennifer. Although the tale loses some steam when Joan becomes superwoman Jennifer, fans will enjoy her metamorphosis while wondering will she revert back to being Joan who everyone admires. Harriet Klausner

Raises the Chick Lit Bar

If you like your chick lit with a great message then this is the book for you! Every woman can identify with Joan's feelings of inadequacy after being rejected, especially after finding out her ex is getting married to a seemingly beautiful and perfect Jennifer. So Joan decides to make herself over inside and out and pretend she is another person. This is a wonderful issue to explore in a novel. Can we really change into someone else, especially a perfect idea of what we think others want us to be? These are great questions to explore with a book club. Jill Rosenblatt is a first time author, but her characters are fully developed and so engaging, so you would think she'd been churning out books for years. Project Jennifer is a fun and easy read with an important lesson, and it helps raise the bar for chick lit. I look forward to her next books.