Author Sophie Kinsella introduces her new novel, Wedding Night

Wedding Night is out now in hardcover, ebook and audio
Read an extract on Sophie's website

New Release: I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

Released today, February 14, 2012, and available in bookstores near you, is Sophie Kinsella's new stand-alone novel, I've Got Your Number.  See the trailer below:

Book Review: Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

Remember Me?

Author:  Sophie Kinsella

Copyright:  2008

Publisher:  The Dial Press ( a division of Random House, Inc.)

389 pages

Also included:  Praise For Sophie Kinsella's Novels (incl. Shopaholic series), Also By Sophie Kinsella

If you enjoyed the Shopaholic novels you will likely find Remember Me?  just as memorable.  Imagine yourself in a hospital bed, in a private room, with the creme de la creme for amenities.  At your bedside sits your mother.  Everything's fuzzy.  You're told you are married and your handsome husband, who happens to be a multi-millionaire, is arriving soon with your sister.  Going to the washroom to freshen up, you are startled by the image in the mirror.  Peering back at you, under the stitches and bruises from the accident, is a beautiful woman with perfect teeth, glossy brown hair and a trim figure.  That's not you, you think.  When did I become this woman?  The last thing you remember is leaving a club with your best friends and tripping and falling on the sidewalk as you ran for a taxi.  You recall thinking; "there's nothing I can do -- this is really, really going to hurt...."  That was 2004.  It is now 2007.  She doesn't even realize that she was in a car crash just days before.  Where are those lost years?

Remember Me? is a fast read.  The main character, Lexi, is likeable, funny and your everyday girl and you root for her.  Amid office politics, estranged friends, and amnesia, she struggles to find herself. She strives for that knowledge in her marriage, her family relationships, her estranged friends.  And then there's the architect Jon. 

This novel is far more graphic than the Shopaholic series.  Since I loved the two that I have read, I wanted to read something else by the same author.  While I enjoyed the story behind Remember Me?, I must warn sensitive readers of the sexual content, profanity and the topic of adultery.  These factored in my level of enjoyment.

Rated 3/5

Theme Thursday - Touch

Theme Thursday was created by Reading Between Pages. Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event that will be open from one thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:

A theme will be posted each week (on Thursdays)

*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
*Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
*It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
Ex: If the theme is KISS; your sentence can have “They kissed so gently” or “Their lips touched each other” or “The smooch was so passionate”

This will give us a wonderful opportunity to explore and understand different writing styles and descriptive approaches adopted by authors.

This week’s theme is – TOUCH (any body contact)

"He hesitates, then drops a kiss on my cheek and strides away." ~ page 341, Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

Whatcha Reading Wednesday 2/16/11

Rules:


1. Grab your current read, go to the page you are on and post the next full sentence you are about to read.

2. Link back to Busy Moms Who Love To Read

Here's mine: 

"As I inhale her familiar smell of dogs and tearose perfume, it's ridiculous, but I feel tears rising."

Page 23. Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella

Confessions of Shopaholic

I had watched the movie, a few times, and loved it so I had to read the book.  I came across a copy at a local bookstore called Never Without a Book.  Great name, eh?

Confessions of a Shopaholic is told in the first person and is the story of Rebecca Bloomwood, a vivacious, designer label loving young lady who works as a journalist with a financial magazine.  The irony of it is, though she writes financial columns, she is over her head in debt.  Her problem - she loves to shop!  Gucci, Prada, D&G.  She knows them all.  Intimately.  Store fronts beckon her and credit card in hand, she answers.

Becky Bloomwood is a dreamer.  She's "finance guru meets the girl next door', "informative meets approachable", "knowledgeable meets down to earth";  as the conversation goes between her and handsome Luke Brandon whom she has a love/hate relationship with. 

 Sophie Kinsella captures the personality of Becky as if the reader knows her intimately.  Like the girl next door or your best friend in high school.  Definitely chick lit, funny and addictive.  You won't want to put it down.

  Get to know Rebecca Bloomwood and you'll see why this book is a bestseller.

Rated 4.5/5

Note:  the movie is quite different than the book.  The movie is set in New York, the book in London.  The same names are used but their characters, in some cases, have different roles.  Both the book and the movie are charming.  I almost think it better to watch the movie first and then read the book.  The exception to the rule.