What I Did for Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips is the ultimate beach read. It's sweet, romantic, funny, and chock full of wink-wink moments for pop culture / celebrity gossip devotees like my friend G.O.I'll try to tempt you into reading it for yourself: Georgie York is an erstwhile sitcom sweetheart who, after accepting a suspicious drink from a stranger in Las Vegas, wakes up married to her former co-star and arch-nemesis, Bramwell Shephard. Georgie and Bram decide to fool the public into believing in their sham marriage by making a series of carefully staged appearances all around Hollywood. Meanwhile, Georgie's ex-husband Lance Marks is making headlines and, um, babies with his screen-siren-turned-international-do-gooder wife, Jade Gentry. Gee, who might that couple represent?? My favorite passage in the book involves a description of Lance as a block of tofu that takes on the flavor of whichever woman he happens to be dating. It took me back to Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow's his-and-hers choppy haircuts. Good memories there. Anyway, Georgie and Bram are so wrapped up in maintaining their images that they don't realize the marriage is turning into the real thing. This book is excellent summertime fun!
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