3 & 4
So much for my resolve in reading non-fiction. I was innocently passing by my cousin's table when a Sophie Kinsella book caught my eye. I cracked it open out of curiosity, and by the end of the day, I'd read two of her books in succession. *facepalm*
3/50 Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
What caught me about this book was the premise: typical, awkward twenty-something wakes up one day to find it's three years later and she's completely different. Completely gorgeous, successful, with gorgeous husband different. Thankfully(?), she (I honestly forget what her name is, already, haha) wasn't in a coma; she just has amnesia and now she has to figure out how in the world she changed. I thought Kinsella handled the amnesia really well, and it was easy to feel the main character's frustrations through that, of pretty much being plopped in this different world. The character was true to herself, and I never once felt like smacking her upside the head.
Plus Kinsella has that totally hyper, easy-going writing style that had me cracking up all the way through. I feel like *I*'ve personally been socialized to believe that men are the funnier sex, but Kinsella definitely proves me wrong.
4/50 Can You Keep a Secret? (also) by Sophie Kinsella
This one's about ordinary Emma, who works for the marketing division of Panther, something or other. She's flying back to London when the plane hits turbulence and, thinking she's about to die, she begins to spill all her secrets to the man sitting next to her. She thinks she'll never see him again, but he pops back up into her life as her boss.
This book gave me a bit of a Jane-Austen vibe, actually, not in the writing style, but in Kinsella's quietly infuriating, inept, self-absorbed caricatures for a secondary cast. Remember Me? had them too, but it was stronger in this book just because there were more characters in this one.
Next: I got Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief, and it's shorter than I expected so I'm basically inhaling it.
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3/50 Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
What caught me about this book was the premise: typical, awkward twenty-something wakes up one day to find it's three years later and she's completely different. Completely gorgeous, successful, with gorgeous husband different. Thankfully(?), she (I honestly forget what her name is, already, haha) wasn't in a coma; she just has amnesia and now she has to figure out how in the world she changed. I thought Kinsella handled the amnesia really well, and it was easy to feel the main character's frustrations through that, of pretty much being plopped in this different world. The character was true to herself, and I never once felt like smacking her upside the head.
Plus Kinsella has that totally hyper, easy-going writing style that had me cracking up all the way through. I feel like *I*'ve personally been socialized to believe that men are the funnier sex, but Kinsella definitely proves me wrong.
4/50 Can You Keep a Secret? (also) by Sophie Kinsella
This one's about ordinary Emma, who works for the marketing division of Panther, something or other. She's flying back to London when the plane hits turbulence and, thinking she's about to die, she begins to spill all her secrets to the man sitting next to her. She thinks she'll never see him again, but he pops back up into her life as her boss.
This book gave me a bit of a Jane-Austen vibe, actually, not in the writing style, but in Kinsella's quietly infuriating, inept, self-absorbed caricatures for a secondary cast. Remember Me? had them too, but it was stronger in this book just because there were more characters in this one.
Next: I got Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief, and it's shorter than I expected so I'm basically inhaling it.
Rest of the Reading List