Sophie Kinsella
I don't know why I do this to myself. I don't tend to like much of what Kinsella writes, but I had an advance copy of the first 3 chapters of this last spring and was interested enough to want to buy it, so I'm taking a break from teen fic for a book or 2 and reading this.
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Kinsella's popularity confuses me . I did give her a try to see what all the fuss was about. I started reading one, about a high strung business women who has a breakdown & becomes a housekeeper; who can't clean. Then the 2nd, about yet another high strung business women...or maybe she was a high strung lawyer who has a breakdown and moves to Alaska; but has no survival skills. Each time despite my best intentions, I reached the point where I'd stopped caring long ago and wanted my life back; that I'd spent reading it. I may just be allergic to Brit chick lit, I found Bridget Jones' Diary pretty painful to read also.
Kinsella (aka Madeleine Wickham) is a particular horror unto herself. Don't read anything she writes under Wickham. It's even worse and more dislikable. What I really don't like about her is that all her "heroines" are screw ups who never learn ANYTHING. Although, I did finish Remember Me the day after I wrote my crit of it, and now I have to rewrite, because she managed to actually have her main character learn something. Not much, but it did get better, so I have to revise my crit.
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