
"You told us you were engaged. You were skipping around with that WASPy guy, calling him 'my future husband.' The two of you were all over each other. We couldn't figure out what had gotten into you, Peggy." - Mating Rituals of the North American WASP by Lauren Lipton
I learn something every day. Take the word WASP for instance. I see the word WASP and think of a flying insect that stings. Apparently, it has another meaning, one I may have learned in school but didn't remember -- White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, i.e. a member of the dominant and the most privileged class of people in the United States. (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary) Where have I been, you ask? Trying to remove wasp's nests from my children's playcenter, that's where, unconcerned with the ways of the elite. But, I enjoyed reading about some fictional WASP antics in Mating Rituals of the North American WASP
Disgruntled because Brock, her boyfriend of seven years hasn't proposed, Peggy throws caution to the wind and gets a little wild during a girls' weekend in Vegas. Back home in New York, she learns just how wild. In her drunken bliss she married a complete stranger, Luke Sedgwick, a WASP from New Nineveh, Connecticut. She leaves her ACME cleaning supply business for a day and drives to New Nineveh seeking an annulment. But then she meets Luke's great-aunt Abigail and receives an unusual offer...if she remains married to Luke for an entire year, she will inherit half of the Sedgwick mansion. Desperate to save her own floundering business, she accepts and, as part of the deal, spends each weekend in New Nineveh where she learns the ways of the WASPs.
A romance, a fairy tale, small town niceties and big city glitz. This is the perfect women's fiction fare! Every so often, especially during the summer, it is nice to pick up a chick lit book. I read Mating Rituals of the North American WASP
Mating Rituals of the North American WASPby Lauren Lipton. 5 Spot (May 2009); 368 pages; ISBN 9780446197977
Related Links:
Lauren Lipton - Author Website
New York Times profile on Lauren Lipton
Book Excerpt

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75 comments:
I suppose I will read this book. If it's on the bestseller list.
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The title alone has me very curious! Count me in :)
I was interested in the waspy comments!
That's Hilarious!
Mating Rituals of the North American WASP ! You really do not hear that term too often any more.
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What a creative title. Hilarious.
Lol, I originally thought this book was about bugs too! But now I know better and I think I'd enjoy it very much!
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sounds fun - not sure what waspy thing should be said....
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WASPy comment?
Slightly sarcastic tone - "definitely" will do (when you don't intend to).
"prep" - prep school kid, a 9th grader at Phillips Exeter
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What a great giveaway. Please enter me. jessica(at)fan(dot)com
Tonight, while we worked on trimming my Bismark palm, we had a lot of angry wasps dive-bombing us.
Oh. Wait. That's a different kind of "wasp", isn't it. Sorry. I'm not really a WASP, so I don't know how to say "WASP-y" things!
Please don't hold that against me, and maybe count me in your giveaway anyway? Please?
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Sounds like a great book. Not at all what I expected from the title.
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This sounds like a hoot! Oh, wait, that's southern. (I can say that 'cause I am.)
Ahem.
This sounds like such a delightful book. What a fun diversion for a beautiful, sunny day. I highly anticipate reading it.
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I've been waiting for this book to come out! Please enter me in the giveaway
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Agreed! I love an escape like this novel! :)
I'm afraid I don't know many WASP-y comments or vocabulary since I would qualify as a WASP at all. I know more about the flying kind since they are always trying to dive bomb me :-) But the book looks like a great read so please include me.
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This looks great! Please enter me!
I think people get the mistaken idea that everyone in Connecticut is a WASP, which is certainly not true!
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I'm a subscriber (through Google Reader)!
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I follow you on my Google Reader! Thanks for the giveaway!
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please count me in for this one - sounds like a great read
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This book sounds like a really fun read. I love the title! I can see it as a movie someday.
Thanks for the chance to win it!
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Oh, you simply must enter me, as this book sounds just the thing to read outside my summer home while acquiring a golden glow.
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I'm another one who first thought the book was about the kind of wasp that flies around and makes nests where you don't want them like in your grill or mailbox!
I'm not a wasp so I don't know how to leave a waspy sounding comment. I would still like to read the book. Thank you for the giveaway!
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Did you know WASP stands for White Anglo Saxon Protestant? I thought that was interesting. Not sure what a Waspy comment would be though!
Hope you will enter me in the giveaway anyway!
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I follow your blog.
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Thanks for the giveaway! This one sounds great and I love the cover.
No need to enter me. This will appear on my next Giveaways Galore, this weekend.
Sounds like fun chick lit that is hopefully a little deeper than your average gold-digger story.
Thanks for the giveaway :)
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Would you care to join me on my yacht or perhaps a nice afternoon of croquet on the lawn in front of the estate?
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My thoughts automatically went to flying bugs. But after reading more about the book, it seems very interesting. Plus, I love any books that can be described as a romantic fairy tale!
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A WASP comment. Think I read somewhere that saying something like "Is she In?" meaning is she one of us?? Does she fit into our way of doing things and dressing etc.
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I blogged it:
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A little late but I twittered this giveaway.
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Not sure if I can come up with a WASPY comment, but I sure do want to read this book! Thanks for the chance to win a copy!
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And, here's my Tweet! http://twitter.com/ASeaOfBooks/status/1977542182
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I don't think I'm very good with waspy comments, but maybe if I read this book I'll be able to come up with some! Please enter me!
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I follow you on Google Reader.
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This one looks good for the beach.
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Please include me in the giveaway. Thanks!
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I, too, have never heard of this term, but the book sounds great! Thanks for the chance:)
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WASPy comment? Hmm...
You don't ask me to read this book, I'll inform you when I'm ready to read it. Thank you very much.
I'm a follower.
Reading is so boring might mess up my manicure, but send the book anyway and I will have Bostwick read it to me while he serves breakfast each morning.
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This book is right up my alley! count me in!
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A waspy comment-I'm allergic to them actually-but did manage to anger the nest once. I cannot think of the other type of wasp comment.
This book sounds like a really fun summer read. I would really enjoy reading it. Please enter me. Thanks!
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I'm not sure what a WASPy sounding comment would be! But I do know that this is one book that I definitely want to read. The situation seems so funny to me & I think I'll get a lot of laughs out of this one.
Thanks,
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I just became a follower.
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not normally my kind of book but sounds interesting
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lol, this has me cracking up. I never learned that wasp meant white anglo-saxon protestant. But, it makes sense. You learn something new every day I guess.
Please enter me. This really does sound like a great book. Thanks!
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I like Vera Bradley. Is that WASPY enough? LOL
This sounds like a great summer read, full of romance, and exploring possibilities. I originally thought this book was actually about WASPS (yes, I'm that dumb LOL) so wasn't very interested. But your review makes it sound great. Thanks so much!!
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This book sounds like a good one. Please include me in your giveaway.
Thanks
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I am a follower.
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i love to sip champane in my pearls!! ahha hope that sounds waspy!!
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oh wow what a great book giveaway!! please enter me!!!
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wow what a great sounding book! please enter me!!!
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Sounds like a fun summer read!
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This sounds like a great book to read at the beach. Enter me please!
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I would love love love a copy of this!
I'm a follower :)
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