Very Valentine reminded me of why I like Adriana Trigiani. Liked it as much as the Big Stone Gap books and Lucia, Lucia. A heck of a lot more than Rococo.
Totally amused by the references to Lucia, Lucia. Excellent, brilliant tie in. Loved it.
The Devil in the Junior League is on my From the Stacks Challenge and it’s pure junk chick lit. But fun chick lit. An excellent book to read in between the self help I read a couple of days ago and the graphic novel I’m going to read next.
Frede Ware is awesome and so is Nikki Grout.
Fun. Just what chick lit should be.
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Yay Willig! The Temptation of the Night Jasmine was fun, as expected. I really like Charlotte and of course the Dowager Duchess. I even like the Duke of Dovedal (and I don’t always really like the men Willig pairs her women with.)
Sassymonkey says Penelope is next, which I’m looking forward too. But, not if that means there wll be no book about Jane… are you listening Willig. The series must now be seven books, not the rumored six.
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I’ve been trying to come up with books to reserve at the library for TW’s mom. She likes romance. She likes mysteries. She seems to like series. She also needs large print. (If you’ve got recommendations, send ’em my way!) One of the series that popped into my head was the “tea shop mystery series set in Charleston”.
So I reserved the one that TW and I had read (and enjoyed) but when I got it home, she said she’d already read it. So, I reserved another… The Silver Needle Murder.
I must have mellowed in my old age because books set in Charleston that aren’t perfectly accurate used to bug me. Now, they don’t. I just plain enjoy every darn Charleston story I read. Homesickness or sick of freezing, icy, snowy, disgusting Chicago. Whatever. I liked this one. Silly chick lit mystery stuff, pure fluff. But hey, we all need fluff – particularly during Chicago winters.
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I really enjoyed Garden Spells so I was wary of The Sugar Queen… second novels are often not as good as first novels. Even when Sassymonkey said The Sugar Queen was good, I wasn’t quite ready to believe it.
The Sugar Queen WAS good. It might even be better than Garden Spells, which bodes well for future novels from Sarah Addison Allen.
Loved the titles of the chapters, nice touch. Love the books that “find” Chloe. Love the cab driver who has to keep his promises. Love Helena err Marlena. Love them all.
I picked Sundays at Tiffany’s off of the “just came back” shelf at the library because… we have a thing for Tiffany’s. I saw it was by James Patterson and I sort of cringed, but still… I handed it to TW and she shrugged so we put it in the bag.
She started reading it, I asked if it was any good, she started talking about imaginary friends (I knew that part, which is also why I picked it up) and ultimately said, “Yes it’s good.”
I was concerned. Patterson is sappy. Really sappy. And this book…. OMG books do not get any sappier than this. But still, it’s nice. It’s a good story.
The imaginary friend thing, that makes it super sappy but is also what makes it a good story. I like imaginary friend stories. Drop Dead Fred is one of my big kids’ favorite movies. What was that movie with the french actor… Bogus? Is that what it was called? With an imaginary friend theme? Whatever. I liked it. Sappy but nice.
And, I liked the ending.
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I usually avoid breast cancer books and had I known this was a breast cancer book, I’d have probably avoided The Wednesday Sisters. I’m glad I didn’t know.
It was time for a really good chick lit story and this was really good chick lit, even with the breast cancer theme. And how often do you read a book set in Palo Alto? I certainly don’t see that very often.
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Finally! The only problem with Willig is that I never get to read her books immediately after they come out. First, my library never had them and I had to wait months before I could request them via ILL. Then, when I bought one, I had to get through some of my “challenge books” before I could pick it up.
But finally, I finished Seduction of the Crimson Rose this morning. Excellent, as expected.
One interesting thing to note, when TW read it she complained that she didn’t remember what had happened in the other books or who the characters were. I assumed this was just a TW thing but I struggled to remember who was who and where we were in the storyline for the first 50 or so pages of the book. Why is that? This is not usually a problem for me, particularly in a series I really like.
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I have a love hate with Biiblical fiction. Nothing is as a good as The Red Tent, which is to be expected, but they all sound like they’re trying to be The Red Tent. Weird. I don’t compare vampire fiction to Anne Rice, how come I do that with Biblical fiction? Whatever.
Queenmaker wasn’t great but it wasn’t bad, either. King David = jerk. Queen Michal = awesome, mostly. No surprises.
Taking a break from the “FtS” Challenge – Breaking Dawn and The Seduction of the Crimson Rose are up next. Yay!
I decided to read one more light and easy book before diving back into the more serious stuff – The Art of French Kissing was very light and very easy. Also pretty amusing in that chick lit sort of way.
Why women have to be so damn stupid in chick lit like this is beyond me, though. I understand, your life is a mess but good grief, you should have realized that SOMETHING was going on between those two men and you should have found out what it was – not just from a potential relationship standpoint but because it was your JOB to figure out what the hell was going on and prepare for the fall out. Stupid. But I guess that wouldn’t have made for such an “aweeee” kind of ending, right?
Silly chick lit and good except for the stupid woman thing.
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