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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

"Waiting On" Wednesday: Mini Shopaholic


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  • "Mini Shopaholic" [Shopaholic Series, Book 6] by Sophie Kinsella (aka Madeleine Wickham)
    Publication Released Date: September 21, 2010

    Author's Book Description:
      The world's favourite economically challenged heroine is back... with a small friend in tow...

      Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze and that having a daughter was a dream come true a shopping friend for life! But it s trickier than she thought two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping.

      She can create havoc everywhere from Harrods to Harvey Nicks to her own christening. She hires taxis at random, her favourite word is "Mine", and she s even started bidding for designer bags on ebay.

      On top of everything else, there s a big financial crisis. People are having to Cut Back including all of Becky s personal shopping clients and she and Luke are still living with Becky's Mum and Dad. To cheer everyone up, Becky decides to throw a surprise birthday party on a budget but then things become really complicated.

      Who will end up on the naughty step, who will get a gold star and will Becky's secret wishes come true?

    This series is sooo cute!! I cannot believe some of the things that Becky has gotten herself into and out of! And I can't WAIT to find out about her daughter!! =0) Check out teasers from this book here!!

    My Previous Review(s) for this Author : The Wedding Girl | The Gatecrasher



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    Saturday, July 10, 2010

    Disappointmentville: The Wedding Girl by Madeleine Wickham [aka Sophie Kinsella]

    Format: Hardcover | Pages: 327 | Release Date: June 2009 | Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

    "The Wedding Girl" by Madeleine Wickham (aka Sophie Kinsella)

    My Book Summary : This novel documents the view points of seven different people through four days, based around a wedding that's supposed to happen when the four days are up and the secrets that come to life around them.

    It is centered around Milly and Simon, with their wedding only a few days away. They seem perfect for each other to everyone who sees them, but Milly has never been truthful to Simon or anyone enough to let them know that she got married ten years earlier and she doesn't think she's divorced. Opps!

    So, when a boy (now grown up) that saw her (and has photos of her) first wedding shows up as her photographer for her current wedding, she gets scared that the truth will come out. At first she plans to hide it, then she decides to take fate in her own hands and track down her current husband to see if they are divorced or not. Without letting her secret slip to Simon or her parents.

    However, Milly is not the only one who is keeping secrets of her own or is having troubles in her life .... Simon has never been close to his father and always lived in his shadow, and because of that he has always tried to best him either in the business world or if not that then to have the perfect relationship. Isobel (Milly's older sister) is what the family calls a 'career woman' and is starting to hate it, but also just found out a new secret of her own that makes her rethink her life. Olivia and James (Milly's parents) are having relationship issues and who knows where they'll end up. Then there is Rupert, who was the boyfriend of Milly's current husband when she married him. In addition, he is the only person she can think of that would know where to find her husband, but he has secrets all of his own that he's been keeping from his family and himself for so long he wants nothing to do with Milly just so they will all stay in his past.

    Once all of these secrets come out in the open .... will everything work out for the best or will things take a turn for the worst?

    My Book Review : 2.5 out of 5 stars. *sigh* This was my first time reading a 'Madeleine Wickham' novel, and since I have read all of her as 'Sophie Kinsella’, I thought these would be just as good. But I don't know ... I guess the way some of the characters decided take care of their secrets just rubbed me the wrong way or something, since I had to skim through some of the chapters just to keep reading, if I didn't skim through I would probably have stopped reading the book altogether. I will say I did like the ending and how the characters finally resolved their issues, and I loved the letter that Rupert read it was very sweet. In addition, I did like the fact that this book was about how to grow up and come to turns with who you truly are as a person, and once you do to stick by what you believe in. Therefore, it had a good message but the plot was a little boring and irritating for me ...

    Book Teaser(s) :
    "Great," said Isobel. "Well, get dialling!"
    "OK," said Milly, taking a deep breath. "Let's see if we've got the right number."
    I should have done this before, she thought guiltily, as she picked up the phone. I could have done this any time. But even as she dialled, she felt a painful dismay at what she was being forced to do. She didn't want to speak to Rupert. She didn't want to speak to Allan. She wanted to forget the bastards had ever existed; wipe them out of her memory. ~ within Chapter 5

    For more information on this book and/or any other books by Madeleine, then please check out her website.



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    Wednesday, August 11, 2010

    Book Extract Videos for the Shopaholic Series, Book 6 [aka Mini Shopaholic]

    Have you read any of the books from the Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella (aka Madeleine Wickham) yet? If not I really think you should ... especially when "Mini Shopaholic" [Shopaholic Series, Book 6] comes out on September 21, 2010!!! YAY!

    Check out these "teasers" (extracts) from "Mini Shopaholic":

    If you can't see/watch the above video then click here to watch it.


    If you can't see/watch the above video then click here to watch it.



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    Monday, July 12, 2010

    Disappointmentville: The Gatecrasher by Madeleine Wickham (aka Sophie Kinsella)

    Format: Hardcover | Pages: 296 | Release Date: July 2007 | Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

    "The Gatecrasher" by Madeleine Wickham (aka Sophie Kinsella)

    My Book Summary : Fleur has a habit of gatecrashing funerals. All so she can meet a rich man (even if that man may be the window), hook up with him for as long as he buys her things, then gets him to some how give her a big enough amount of money .... then she's off to the next funeral ... the next man.

    Her next target is Richard, a newly widowed ten-million-dollar plus man, that believes his wife was a saint but he feels he barely knew her. Fleur has the looks and says the right things .. so by the next day after the memorial service she is already set to go out to lunch with him.

    As such of a sweet man Richard may be he falls hard for Fleur, but he still feels wrong about moving on so quickly after his wife died that he takes things slow with her. Slower then she is used to. But after a couple of months she moves in with his family, and makes friends a lot quicker with some of them then most people would have believed.

    But then her past and personal things come up, and Fleur rolls with the punches. However, when it's one that she might not be able to escape it's either give up and run as fast as she can to the next man ..... or stay at the place that has treated her better then she's had in years.

    My Book Review : 2 out of 5 stars. I so wanted to like this book. I really did. For the most part it was fine up until her big secret (or the main one) comes out and I just had to skim through the rest to find the ending. =0P A majority of the characters I loved ..... except Philippa was a bit to whiny for me and her husband was too much of a jackass for me to read through.

    My Previous Review(s) for this Author : The Wedding Girl

    Book Teaser(s) :
    He spun round, and felt his face freeze in disbelief. Sitting at Richard's desk, legs calmly crossed, was Fleur. His mind began to race. Had she been there all the time? Had she seen him ... ~ within Chapter 7

    For more information on this book and/or any other books by Madeleine, then please check out her website.



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