Type: {Beach Read: fluffy, mindless, easy to read}
Rating: {An Unputdownable: Couldnt eat or sleep until I finished this book}
Why Youre Reading It:
You love British Chick-Lit
You need a vacation from heavier books
You need a good book to read by the pool
Funny, light, entertaining stories with a good splash of romance charm you
What I Thought:
I read and loved Hollys Inbox by Holly Denham. I ate it up. Swallowed it whole. It is 665 pages and I downed it. Its that good. And its written in e-mail form, so it goes faster than other books. (Be sure to click the link about Holly Denham, but maybe after you read? You dont want to spoil the surprise about the author until youve started reading and can understand the irony. Let me know what you thinkI was impressed.)
This book is from the UKpublished three years ago, and was only recently published in the United States. It popped out of the table at me in my Barnes and Noble. I went to pick it up, thinking it was a thin, chick-lit novelit is a brick. I almost dropped it because I wasnt prepared, and I was laughing (out loud, by myself). I knew I had to have it; a thicker than thick, total chick-lit, British novelSOLD! Did I mention it had a recommendation by OK! Magazine on the front cover (thats the British version of US Weekly only better)? It was exactly the kind of light read I was looking for to get me through the end of the year (the beginning and end of the school yearok, and all the times right before a vacation, tooare madcompletely exhausting and stressful) last year as I was ending my last teaching job.
Can I tell you how fun this book was to read. First, its always fun to read e-mails and letters (who doesnt like getting letters? And who doesnt remember The Jolly Postman and how fun that book was?) So 665 pages of e-mails, that you dont have to worry about answering, is spellbinding. Not to mention that Holly is very Bridget Jones-esque, yet not quite so incompetent. (Note here: I love Bridget Jones, and most other of the British chick-lit booksisnt there just something delicious about the way British authors write?) Its got the ridiculous aspects, but is also relatablewhich is why this genre is so successful.
For the first few hundred pages I was reading it because it was fun and entertaining. For the last couple hundred I was reading because I couldnt put it down and wanted to know what happened next! It was kind of like eating guacamole; although there isnt that much nutritious value, you just cant stop eating!
Tastes. So. Good.
Even though I could feel the stack of papers in my right hand getting smaller as I approached the end, I was still shocked when I got to the last page. No! It cant be over! Luckily there is a sequel that is now available in the US (ahem, some of us had to order it from the UK last year because we couldnt wait I wont tell you who though).
Rating: {An Unputdownable: Couldnt eat or sleep until I finished this book}
Why Youre Reading It:
You love British Chick-Lit
You need a vacation from heavier books
You need a good book to read by the pool
Funny, light, entertaining stories with a good splash of romance charm you
What I Thought:
I read and loved Hollys Inbox by Holly Denham. I ate it up. Swallowed it whole. It is 665 pages and I downed it. Its that good. And its written in e-mail form, so it goes faster than other books. (Be sure to click the link about Holly Denham, but maybe after you read? You dont want to spoil the surprise about the author until youve started reading and can understand the irony. Let me know what you thinkI was impressed.)
This book is from the UKpublished three years ago, and was only recently published in the United States. It popped out of the table at me in my Barnes and Noble. I went to pick it up, thinking it was a thin, chick-lit novelit is a brick. I almost dropped it because I wasnt prepared, and I was laughing (out loud, by myself). I knew I had to have it; a thicker than thick, total chick-lit, British novelSOLD! Did I mention it had a recommendation by OK! Magazine on the front cover (thats the British version of US Weekly only better)? It was exactly the kind of light read I was looking for to get me through the end of the year (the beginning and end of the school yearok, and all the times right before a vacation, tooare madcompletely exhausting and stressful) last year as I was ending my last teaching job.
Can I tell you how fun this book was to read. First, its always fun to read e-mails and letters (who doesnt like getting letters? And who doesnt remember The Jolly Postman and how fun that book was?) So 665 pages of e-mails, that you dont have to worry about answering, is spellbinding. Not to mention that Holly is very Bridget Jones-esque, yet not quite so incompetent. (Note here: I love Bridget Jones, and most other of the British chick-lit booksisnt there just something delicious about the way British authors write?) Its got the ridiculous aspects, but is also relatablewhich is why this genre is so successful.
For the first few hundred pages I was reading it because it was fun and entertaining. For the last couple hundred I was reading because I couldnt put it down and wanted to know what happened next! It was kind of like eating guacamole; although there isnt that much nutritious value, you just cant stop eating!
Tastes. So. Good.
Even though I could feel the stack of papers in my right hand getting smaller as I approached the end, I was still shocked when I got to the last page. No! It cant be over! Luckily there is a sequel that is now available in the US (ahem, some of us had to order it from the UK last year because we couldnt wait I wont tell you who though).
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