Koa
06-30-2005, 09:51 AM
Ok, Sophie Kinsella is not what I'd call the most intellectual writer ever... One friend of mine got caught in her I Love Shopping series and keeps telling me how fun it is, since she's into some relaxing reading lately. This friend of mine will graduate tomorrow and as a present I wanted to give her some books... but I know how fed up she is at the moment with all the heavy reading she had to do during her studies, so if I'd buy her some Dostoevsky she'd probably use it to hit me on the head (and that must hurt! :D).
So yesterday I bought her a book by this Kinsella, called Can You Keep A Secret?, cos I know she read already the I love Shopping ones... Well, last night I came home I thought I'd have a look at this book (I'm looking forward to the end of my exams to enjoy some relaxed reading as well cos with all the due respect I'm sick of damn Tolstoy and co.), like reading the first chapter, one in the middle and the last one... I ended up reading it all :blush: Aside from the slight sense of guilt for having read a book I bought for someone else (isn't it like if I bought her a tshirt and wore it before giving it to her? :blush:), it was SO cathartic... It's been ages since I last read a book from cover to cover in one sitting... Every now and then I was glancing at War&Peace and all my exam-stuff... :D The book was funny, the story well built, of course totally far from reality but still many details kept it well anchored to reality, like the clumsiness of the protagonist... Basically, it's about this girl who on the plane tells all her secrets to a stranger then finds out it's the owner of the company where she works, and guess how it ends? Yes, it's that ;)
But aside the lightness of the book, there are some good ideas about trust in couples, the keeping of secrets and such... really, it doesnt have the depth of a classic, but it was enjoyable and not as stupid as those books sometimes are. Well, I hadn't cried so much in ages :blush: but that was because of this man who tried to do things perfectly for her and, being myself the eternal single, how could I feel? That was the most unrealistic part of course, but there were some nice unpredictable moments and in some of them I even found myself doubting for a second of the happy end (then looked at the bright pink cover and realised that such book can't have an unhappy end! :D).
Phew...once my mum bought me a silly book for teenagers and I hated it so much... While now I can even find myself in the struggles of a young woman for a decent relationship... I guess authors of nowadays light literature like this can find the way to speak to the mind of the average person, and that's where their success come from. All in all, I had a good read of a catching story and dreamt a bit (even if that can get me quite depressed when it's about men :eek:)
If my friend hasn't read that book already, I think she'll like it.
So yesterday I bought her a book by this Kinsella, called Can You Keep A Secret?, cos I know she read already the I love Shopping ones... Well, last night I came home I thought I'd have a look at this book (I'm looking forward to the end of my exams to enjoy some relaxed reading as well cos with all the due respect I'm sick of damn Tolstoy and co.), like reading the first chapter, one in the middle and the last one... I ended up reading it all :blush: Aside from the slight sense of guilt for having read a book I bought for someone else (isn't it like if I bought her a tshirt and wore it before giving it to her? :blush:), it was SO cathartic... It's been ages since I last read a book from cover to cover in one sitting... Every now and then I was glancing at War&Peace and all my exam-stuff... :D The book was funny, the story well built, of course totally far from reality but still many details kept it well anchored to reality, like the clumsiness of the protagonist... Basically, it's about this girl who on the plane tells all her secrets to a stranger then finds out it's the owner of the company where she works, and guess how it ends? Yes, it's that ;)
But aside the lightness of the book, there are some good ideas about trust in couples, the keeping of secrets and such... really, it doesnt have the depth of a classic, but it was enjoyable and not as stupid as those books sometimes are. Well, I hadn't cried so much in ages :blush: but that was because of this man who tried to do things perfectly for her and, being myself the eternal single, how could I feel? That was the most unrealistic part of course, but there were some nice unpredictable moments and in some of them I even found myself doubting for a second of the happy end (then looked at the bright pink cover and realised that such book can't have an unhappy end! :D).
Phew...once my mum bought me a silly book for teenagers and I hated it so much... While now I can even find myself in the struggles of a young woman for a decent relationship... I guess authors of nowadays light literature like this can find the way to speak to the mind of the average person, and that's where their success come from. All in all, I had a good read of a catching story and dreamt a bit (even if that can get me quite depressed when it's about men :eek:)
If my friend hasn't read that book already, I think she'll like it.