Mini Shopaholic

Nothing like Becky Bloomwood Brandon to brighten your day. While the series is starting to get a little thin, I still enjoyed the latest Shopaholic book and look forward to the next. Exactly what you would expect and want from Chick Lit.

Twenties Girl

I was so excited to find the latest Sophie Kinsella book available at my library just as I was leaving for the beach. I love Kinsella's heroines. They are always so adorable, and the latest heroines are no exception. As usual it's a quick read that leads to laughing out loud. While not as guffaw inducing as Can You Keep a Secret? and not as series inspiring as the Shopaholic, Twenties Girl is definitely worth taking a day to immerse yourself into and allow yourself the joy of this lighthearted story.

The Other Woman

More chick lit from the condo. I read one Jane Green book ages ago, but didn't like her as much as I like Sophie Kinsella, so I had not read any more. And while I liked this one more than I remember liking the other, there were things about this book -- namely the charcterizations rather than characters -- that annoyed me. None of the characters were particularly relatible or worthy of our sympathy. I know she was going for ambiguity, but it failed to pull it off in a more than skin deep level. Still, I might look for Swapping Lives at the library. Sounds intersting in that whole Trading Places sort of way.

Fishbowl

So at the beach I ran out of reading material that I had brought, and I didn't want to go to the bookstore all greasy, so I ransacked the condo looking for something that would keep me going, and the first thing I found was Fishbowl. That little red dress on the top of the cover let me know exactly what I was getting into, chick lit through and through, but overall I enjoyed it.

The author tells the story of three 20-something Toronto "roomies" by alternating through the various roommates, switching POV with each chapter, and even resorting at times to omniscient narrator to cover all three at once. It does make me wonder which of the three is most closely the author herself. I'm guessing Jodine with a dash of Allie. While not the greatest book I ever read, the author does a fine job of keeping me entertained on the beach.

Boy Meets Girl

More Meg Cabot, more emails, and memos and Instant Messages and the like. And more little girl in the big city finding her well-off soul mate while overcoming the odds of a horrible boss, a psychotic ex, and of course a constant shortage of cash. Cabot's books are predictable, but then again, I'm at the beach and that's what I want. Cabot's heroine lacks the sheer hilarity of Sophie Kinsella's and even Cabot's own Queen of Babble, but all in all, a fine quick read.