Chick Lit discussion

So after I'm done reading Bourne Identity I want a chick lit, something lighter. Any suggestions? Anything new & good? I already am starting Eat, Pray, Love... I want something fictional & fun.

I just read "Something Borrowed" by Emily Giffin and I'm starting "Something Blue" which is the sequel. Lots of fun, not too deep. Check it out.

"Jemima J" by Jane Green or any of Cecilia Ahern's books.

Emily Griffin is good I recommend those too. Also, Sophie Kinsella who wrote the confessions of a shopaholic series is great.

Sophie Kinsella's other books like "Can You Keep a Secret" and "Undomestic Goddess" are great too.

Willow Springs by Jan Watson if you like romance and western...very good book.

I just finished Hester Browne's The Little Lady Agency, it was a easy, good read, I just love the British Chick lit.

Thanks everyone. Jemima J is my fave chick lit! haha, so good call there. I think I own Something Borrowed but haven't read yet. I don't like the Shopaholic books but will have to definitely check out the other suggestions. I am going to be on a plane so hope to get some good reading in!

Just as a note I don't think you should judge Sophie Kinsella off her Shopaholic books. I am and I think others are to that her other books are much better than Shopaholic.

If you are looking for something lighter, if you have not read Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger(author of The Devil Wears Prada), I highly recommend it. I loved it!!

Marian Keyes books are hysterical. I recommend Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, and Rachel's Holiday from her.

Also Candace Bushnell's
4 Blondes & also Trading Up.

Another great one is The Perfect Manhattan by Leanne Shear.

Kati,

I loved Everyone Worth Knowing!! I actually liked it better than The Devil Wears Prada! I would definately recommend the book!

Right now, I'm reading The Boleyn Inheirtance. I love it.

I hope its okay to announce but I'm giving away a signed copy of Marta Acosta's book, Happy Hour at the Casa Dracula! Check out www.marycastillo.com for all the details.

Best,
Mary

Oh, good - I'll have to add the Boleyn Inhertiance to my "To Read" list. I've read the Constance Princess, the Other Boleyn Sister and now I'm reading the Virgin Lover - so far it's really good. I liked the Constance Princess the best though.

I am now reading the Constant Princess. I really enjoyed the Boleyn Inheirtance but not as much as The Other Boleyn Girl.

Just finished reading Sophia Kinsella's Remember Me? Very funny, read it in one day.

Charlene

Hi there. I am reading now my first Cecilia Ahern book. PS I love you. Have read 1/5th of it and liking it a lot. My kind of humour.
I also bought 3 new chick lit books

The Chocolate Lover's Club and the sequel (2008)
The Chocolate Lover's Diet by Carole Mathews

and Seeing me Naked by Liza Palmer.
Lately I am in a chick lit mood. ;)

I loved Seeing me Naked!

I am now reading Cecilia Ahern's "Theres no place like Here"

This isn't typical chick lit, but I am reading "Are you there, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" by Chelsea Handler.

She is hysterical! If you've read her first collection of memoirs, "My Horizontal Life", this one is just as laugh out loud quick witted. :)

LIZ: I just bought that There's No Place Like Here and it will be the first *novel* I've read by Cecilia Ahern. I've only read her short stories in the past.

KIM: I'm trying to decide whether to go to Chelsea's book signing tomorrow here in Houston for Are you there, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. I think she is hilarious as all get out!

I loved My Horizontal Life and am waiting impatiently for Are you there, Vodka? to come into my library. She's very funny. You should totally go to the signing!

Well I have read lots of chick lit.
Finished PS I love you and loved it :)

Then I ordered 2 books by Carole Matthews on play.com.
The Chocolate Lover's Club and The Chocolate Lover's Diet. Finished book 2 yesterday.
Then I picked Seeing me Naked and that is what I am reading now.
Just with the first book by Liza Palmer (Conversations with The Fat Girl) it did take me a while to get in to it. Hope it will get better soon.

O and I received a lot of chick lit books through swaps and bookcrossing.
* Remember Me? By Sophie Kinsella. (swap)
* Double Trouble by Claire Cross (exchange on bookobsessed)
* My Fake Wedding by Mina Ford (Exchange on bookobsessed)
and not sure if these 2 are chick lits?

* Hollywood Girls Club by Maggie Marr (won in contest)
* Nearlyweds by Beth Kendrick (Mooched on bookmooch)

Do you girls know any of these books? any good?

I'm with one of the earlier posters in that I really like Kinsella's other books better than the Shopaholic series. I just read Remember Me? a couple of weekds ago and loved it, one of her best in my opinion. Just finished Something Borrowed and Something Blue, they were good. Nobody in chick lit has been able to top Marian Keyes for me though, I laugh and cry when I read her books, they are great!

Currently I'm reading a sort of chick lit series, "Dead End Dating" (Kimberly Raye), about a matchmaking vampire. Cute, fluffy reads.

I am about halfway through "Then We Came to the End" by Joshua Ferris, but I'm having trouble following it and I'm a bit disappointed given all the hype the book received. I'm not sure if it's the style it's written in, or that the plot isn't really working for me...wondered if anyone else had read this.

I just finished The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen. Very fast, feel good read. This you're a chick lit girl this one's for you.

I'm almost finished with remember me? kinsella's latest, and while I laugh and enjoy her books, I feel like they are all the same. Even though this isn't the shopaholic series, its still the same type of character and a similiar predicament and we'll see if its a similiar ending? Does anyone else think this?

I'm reading "Mommy Tracked" by Whitney Gaskell

I just finished Love the One Your With, the new Emily Giffin book. I thought it was just alright, nothing compared to Something Blue, which is one of my favorite Chick-lit reads.

I totally agree! I was dissapointed in the book. Her first two were by far the best. Baby Proof was okay,but I didn't like this one much.

I totally agree with you both...I loved the first two books she wrote...but I just found myself at odds with the female main characters in her last two. I just can't fathom not wanting to be a mother..or almost semi-cheating on the perfect husband for an awful guy. The women in the first two books were just so much more like-able in my mind I guess. I still liked the last two but that element was just really lacking,

I love the Dixie Cash books!

Yes of course, Jemima J is classic chick lit. I felt like it was watching reality tv...just couldn't look away.

I also just finished Love, Rosie by Cecilia Ahern. The entire book is written in letters, notes and emails. I thought it might be weird but then I felt like I was snooping through someones personal lives. It was awesome!

I just started reading Emily Giffin's newest, a few chapters in, so far so good.

I'm halfway through The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed by Lee Smith...not chick-lit but it's what I'm reading.

I am currently The Other Boleyn Girl and I can't put it down...

I am reading your post and "Chasing Harry Winston" is one that a girlfriend and I both want to read. I was wondering, how do you find out the book club selection for each month?

Two books I highly recommend are "God Shaped Hole" and "How to Kill a Rockstar" by Tiffani DeBartolo. I just loved the characters in both books and never wanted to put them down!

I loved god shaped hole!

Oh...have you read "How to Kill a Rockstar?" then? If not you really should, it's fabulous! I keep waiting and waiting for her to write another book. I just really enjoy her characters.

I haven't read that one I think I looked at it before and wasn't sure how it would be but I am going to add it to my to read list. Thanks! :-)

I can't find How to Kill a Rockstar... who wrote it?

Tiffani DeBartolo

I'm currently reading Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert.
I had heard so many great things about this book, it being a bestseller for so long, and "Oprah-fied" :)
I'm only on page 80something & loving it. It is sad and funny, and she is just honest and such a great narrator of her journeys.
I just wanted to recommend for anyone looking for a great author.

I just finished reading Persuading Annie by Melissa Nathan. She's an Engligh author and I really like her books.

I just finished "Secrets of a Shoe Addict" by Beth Harbison and loved every minute of it.

i just recently finished Chasing Harry Winston and i was alittle disappointed. didn't think it was a good as the others. still a good read - but not my fav. i also just finished Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin and thought it was really good! I love her books!