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Confessions Of A Demented Housewife: The Celebrity Year
Confessions of a Demented The Celebrity Year Greene, Niamh
332 pages, Paperback
First published June 5, 2008
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March 24, 2017
2.5 Stars
No No No
This one broke my heart, Bring on the brownies !!!! Double chocolate please.
What did I like :
Susie's mother in law.
She is the only character who had some positive changes and was pretty entertaining.
The nanny and her backstory, would love to see how her life worked out.
What I didn't like :
The book loses its funny, breezy tone. Now the humor feels forced and major events were melodramatic.
Some parts felt irrelevant, filler and all I could think was why didn't someone chop this to bits.
Joe goes through an unconvincing mid life crisis. WHY?
Susie comes across as dumb, emotionally unequipped and oblivious to obvious situations. This is inconsistent with the first book. She was persistent and perceptive in the last one.
There's no marathon cleaning emergency.
Susie's life implodes, its tedious and you can't see a way out. But everything is miraculously fixed in less than 10 days. I wish more time had been devoted to actually fixing things.
I can't even....
You don't believe it's all ok, because it happened to soon and you don't close the book with a good feeling.
Lone Father returns as The Evil Witch.
No No No
This one broke my heart, Bring on the brownies !!!! Double chocolate please.
What did I like :
Susie's mother in law.
She is the only character who had some positive changes and was pretty entertaining.
The nanny and her backstory, would love to see how her life worked out.
What I didn't like :
The book loses its funny, breezy tone. Now the humor feels forced and major events were melodramatic.
Some parts felt irrelevant, filler and all I could think was why didn't someone chop this to bits.
Joe goes through an unconvincing mid life crisis. WHY?
Susie comes across as dumb, emotionally unequipped and oblivious to obvious situations. This is inconsistent with the first book. She was persistent and perceptive in the last one.
There's no marathon cleaning emergency.
Susie's life implodes, its tedious and you can't see a way out. But everything is miraculously fixed in less than 10 days. I wish more time had been devoted to actually fixing things.
I can't even....
You don't believe it's all ok, because it happened to soon and you don't close the book with a good feeling.
Lone Father returns as The Evil Witch.
October 22, 2009
I really enjoyed this as it put me in a good mood, made me laugh and made me cringe at times. It's written in a very easy to read diary style and a great read for those miserable autumn evenings.
December 10, 2017
Follow up to :
"Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife" & a more enjoyable read for me - although not enough for it to earn an extra star! Once again, it's nothing to get over excited about & is predictable in that you can see what's going to happen a mile off. Nevertheless, it's easy to read & entertaining enough but for chick-lit lovers only - can't see it converting anyone to the genre.
"Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife" & a more enjoyable read for me - although not enough for it to earn an extra star! Once again, it's nothing to get over excited about & is predictable in that you can see what's going to happen a mile off. Nevertheless, it's easy to read & entertaining enough but for chick-lit lovers only - can't see it converting anyone to the genre.
October 16, 2021
It was ok, Susie is a bit dreary and whiny. Everything is pretty mundane for the first 3/4's of the book.when it picks up speed and then everything turns at break neck speed and flips in the space of about 10 pages, feel it was a bit predictable in places.
March 16, 2018
Loved this book, made me chuckle quite a few times, definitely a must for a light hearted read.
September 23, 2019
Hilarious thoroughly enjoyed listening to this on audio book the hours flew by listening to it
January 12, 2022
Thoroughly enjoyed this read, could not put it down. Fabulous for a 'wind down' read after a long day, with just a few laughs!
November 16, 2010
Susie is spoilt, self-obsessed and smug.
This is not a good thing for light-hearted reading requirements. Marian Keyes understands this. Her heroines may be selfish, vain and egotistical but they are never smug. Susie has everything she is supposed to want. A rich husband, a lovely home, two children - Jack who thinks he’s a dog, and Katie, who wants to be a P**** Cat Doll. Telling, isn’t it?
Poor, bored little Susie tries to make her life more interesting by engineering encounters with men she fancies. She courts celebrity moms at her children’s school, and by default, the paparazzi. She gossips. She shops. I was bored with her by page 21, but I persevered. I was stoic and read on. But the ‘me, me, me’ of Susie was just too much to take.
Unfortunately, it did not get any better. Her unexpected ‘career’ move into television was trite. One suspects that the editor told the author that something had to happen. I’ll be surprised if this becomes a successful series. Greene is not funny enough to get away with her unsympathetic, cardboard cut-out heroine. A plot would have been nice, too.
0/5
This is not a good thing for light-hearted reading requirements. Marian Keyes understands this. Her heroines may be selfish, vain and egotistical but they are never smug. Susie has everything she is supposed to want. A rich husband, a lovely home, two children - Jack who thinks he’s a dog, and Katie, who wants to be a P**** Cat Doll. Telling, isn’t it?
Poor, bored little Susie tries to make her life more interesting by engineering encounters with men she fancies. She courts celebrity moms at her children’s school, and by default, the paparazzi. She gossips. She shops. I was bored with her by page 21, but I persevered. I was stoic and read on. But the ‘me, me, me’ of Susie was just too much to take.
Unfortunately, it did not get any better. Her unexpected ‘career’ move into television was trite. One suspects that the editor told the author that something had to happen. I’ll be surprised if this becomes a successful series. Greene is not funny enough to get away with her unsympathetic, cardboard cut-out heroine. A plot would have been nice, too.
0/5
November 6, 2012
The book was written as a diary which makes it easier to step into the characters shoes (if you want to). It's far from a serious read as there are issues Susie finds herself in that are totally avoidable; she has a slight smugness to herself which can be off putting and makes you forget she's a mother of two not a teenager- at times the angst is distracting.
Don't get me wrong though this book will make you laugh- A LOT. It's rather unapologetic and hilarious to read.
Don't get me wrong though this book will make you laugh- A LOT. It's rather unapologetic and hilarious to read.
March 25, 2009
This was so badly written that I couldn't finish it. The main character is silly and shallow.
If you want a good 'chick lit' book about acquiring a celebrity friend, I recommend Gill McNeil's Divas Don't Knit, which is everything this is not....
If you want a good 'chick lit' book about acquiring a celebrity friend, I recommend Gill McNeil's Divas Don't Knit, which is everything this is not....
October 25, 2012
There were funny parts, but the book just didn't make that of an impact. Susie was kinda annoying and too self-centered for me to even care about what happens to her in the end. It was too Bridget-Jonesy to me, and though that book was marvelously funny, this book failed in comparison. Oh well. At least it entertained me, in bits and pieces.
August 24, 2009
A light read that I found quite funny in parts. I believe there is another book in the series and I would definitely buy it based on reading this book.
May 8, 2010
Easy to read, as laid out like a diary. Found it v similar to Slummy Mummy from the Times though.
May 22, 2010
A fantastic follow up to Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife. Again, lots of twists (although some predictable) and lots of humour.
April 11, 2011
A light read, mildly funny. The main character was just a bit too annoying though.
June 1, 2011
I hated this book. I only finished it in the hope that the main character would somehow redeem herself and not continue to be pathetic and shallow.
August 5, 2011
Awful, just awful... not that i was expecting much from it.
August 6, 2011
Fun, easy, quick, familar with characters from 1st book. Took a bit to get going thought it was a bit repeatitive at first but then got into it. Good fun read, enjoyable.
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August 7, 2011amazingly funny book. this authour never fails to make me laugh. Hope she has some more books coming out soon
January 29, 2012
I liked this book i thought it was slow going and the main character really annoyed me wasnt as good as the first book.
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July 4, 2012Hilarious!!
September 1, 2012
The second in the series - enjoyable light hearted holiday reading!!!
July 20, 2017
Lovely book! Not as hilarious as the first one though.
April 24, 2017
Second one I have read in this series. Very entertaining the trials and tribulations of being a modern Irish Mammy...with celebs and higher lifestyle aspirations thrown in..
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