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Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing

When I got to Archie's that evening, he said, "How'd it go?" I told him that my father seemed pretty good, a little tired maybe, but otherwise his usual self.

Archie was still waiting, and I realized just before he said, "You didn't tell your dad about us?" that he'd expected me to.

That's why he'd had the book inscribed.

I thought about why I hadn't; I said something like maybe I was trying to protect my father as he'd protected me.

Archie glared at me. "You're equating me with a fatal blood disease?:

"That's not what I mean." Then I realized the truth: "I wasn't thinking about you," I said. "I was just being with my dad."

He gazed at me. "You've grown up honey."

It felt good to hear it. I thought maybe he was right. Then it occurred to me that if I really had grown up I wouldn't want to be told.

When I first saw A Girl's Guide to Fishing and Hunting and read the reviews of how similar it was to Bridget Jones, I felt reluctant to pick it up. While I'd enjoyed Bridget's story of her life, I didn't really want to go through another story in the same tone. A few years later, when I did pick up the book, I realized it was totally different from Jones's story. Besides the two books having a female main character and their being similar age groups, the stories are totally different. Personally, I enjoyed Melissa Bank's book a lot more. Maybe cause my expectations were so low.