I'm Reading... Sophie Kinsella

CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?

The first Shopaholic book - Confessions of a Shopaholic - had me in stitches.  I'd be reading in bed at all hours and wake my poor sleeping husband with a snort or a bark or a raucous guffaw.  Because it's so...damn...funny.  Twenties Girl is just as good, and perhaps even stronger.

With CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?, she just keeps on being ridiculously heavenly wonderful!  As she does so beautifully well here she weaves a lovely romance between a regular girl and a fantasy hero in a way that's completely believable while being just a little nutty.  Throw in a good dollop of family issues, winsome and odd friends, a smattering of true to life workmates and the story has a rich context that makes the story as much about the girl finding herself as the girl finding the one.  And did I mention its funny?  IT'S BLOODY HILARIOUS!

Can You Keep a Secret? is warm, lovable, clever, and laugh out loud funny, just like anything Sophie Kinsella writes, methinks.  Keeper?  Wish I'd written it?  You bet!

More about the author here.  Buy Can You Keep a Secret? here.  Grab Confessions of a Shopaholic.  Get Twenties Girl too!

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I'm reading... "Shopaholic Takes Manhattan"

I love Sophie Kinsella. Adore her books to bits. Confessions of a Shopaholic made me laugh out loud a good doezent imes, and that's hard to do to this reader. My clever godmother bought me Twenties girl for Christmas a year ago. Loved that too. And now I've finally gotten around to picking up the second Shopaholic tome, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan.

I was laughing out loud on the first page.

If you've ever hidden all of the clothes you bought from a plethora of different stores in one shopping bag so that your boyfriend/husband/room-mate/mother/boss didn't guess how much you'd actually spent that day, or if you've said "what, this old thing" when your boyfriend/husband/room-mate/mother/boss asked if your dress was new so that they remained clueless as to the fact that you were shopping that day rather than working/working out/volunteering as you'd said you were, then you'll love Rebecca Bloomwood.

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