[Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella]

I love Sophie Kinsella's books, but I could only get through three (Confessions, Takes Manhattan and Ties the Knot) of her Shopaholic series. I love to shop, but it was the money thing that irked me. I'm not one that spends money I don't have and it just drove me crazy when she did, which was all the time. lol!

 

 

I read the first few pages of the first one and couldn't read on. I think it made me feel so uncomfortable because it's an awful feeling to be in credit card debt and I didn't want to spend my free time reading about that! ha!!

 

But I LOVED The Undomestic Goddess!!!

[Sophie Kinsella]

I read The Undomestic Goddess in one sitting yesterday and LOVED it!! Great read... can't wait to read all of her other ones!

[Marian Keyes - This Charming Man]

Thanks for the recommendation! I really like Marian Keyes. I will add it to my TBR pile!

[Jane Porter - Flirting with Forty]

What is it about?

 

Hi KB...

 

Here's a description from her website....

 

Flirting With Forty

Playful and smart, a coming-of-middle age story of a woman not ready to give up on love and life.

 

He got the second home and the Porsche. She got the kids and a broken heart. Now Jackie, post-divorce and heading toward the big four-oh, is on vacation, staring down her upcoming birthday in sunny Hawaii--alone. But not for long. She's soon falling for Kai, her gorgeous, much younger surf instructor, and the wild passionate fling they have becomes the biggest surprise of Jackie's life.

 

Returning home, Jackie has to struggle with single parenthood...and memories of Kai. He hasn't forgotten her either. With her friends disapproving and thousands of ocean --not to mention an age difference--separating them, Jackie starts to wonder what she got herself into. When a choice must be made, can she, will she risk everything for her chance at happiness?

[Jane Porter - Flirting with Forty]

A perfect summer read is Flirting with Forty by Jane Porter. It just came out as a mass market paperback so it's small and easy to throw into a beach bag!!

 

It's also being made into a Lifetime movie starring Heather Locklear for around Christmas time. How fun!!!

 

It's one of my all time favorite books!!

[Katie Fforde]

hehe! This is a fun thread! As you can tell by my name, I'm a huge Chick Lit fan and about a third of the books I read are predictable but so are the movies and tv shows I watch. That is why when I find authors that shake me up with twists and surprising endings, I will keep going back to them.

 

Thanks for all the good suggestions for authors like that.

 

My favorite author who never lets me down is Jane Porter.

[What is Chick lit?]

These are usually labelled as chick lit, but I'm not sure that they are.. I would personally call them 'women's fiction'.

 

One of the terms that I see often is Mommy Lit for those books that are similar to chick lit but deal with married women and their issues. My very favorite Mommy Lit books are Odd Mom Out and Mrs. Perfect by Jane Porter. Written with the same flare as Chick Lit but for old mommies like me!