2. Getting Warmer

Getting Warmer is pretty good chicklit. Amazingly enough the main character isn't in advertising/publishing/pr and it's not set in Boston/NYC/London! I know, quite a change from the typical chicklit book, I know. :)

Here's a review from B&N:

In Scottsdale, Arizona, Natalie Quackenbush teaches English at Agave High School, lives with her parents, and loves to go bar-hopping with her best friend, big-boned almost six feet tall Jill as they enjoy telling lies to males trying and failing to pick them up. Three years ago she gave up on her Yuppie boyfriend and Boston to move back to her parents though she knows that makes her a loser. At a bar Natalie meets Jonathan and tells him her usual lies about herself that she teaches at a prison and lives with her parents because her mom has Alzheimer’s. However, this time her web of deceit backfires as she finds she likes him and wants to see him. He feels the same way about her. As they fall in love, she knows she owes him the truth and he knows he owes her the truth about a stalker. Instead both run away from the confrontation hers being metaphoric while his is simply vanishing. --- GETTING WARMER is a terrific look at relationships built initially on the theory that “What a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive. Even a white lie that should hurt no one is difficult to overcome once started. The support cast, mostly those connected to the school, her family, or his stalker, enhance the prime romance while two other love stories also provide depth. Fans will enjoy the education rat pack as they showcase their skills at telling fibs in lieu of explaining failed expectations (“Those who can do. Those who can't, teach”). They tell more lies in a futile attempt to extract them from that first untruth.

I own this one if you'd like to borrow it...