I really enjoyed The Fortune Quilt, by Lani Diane Rich. I love the idea of a psychic who makes “the perfect quilt” for someone she has never met or even imagined – she just knows what to make, and then days or weeks or years later, she meets that person and gives her the quilt. […]
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Love Actually
It’s 10 years old, but Love Actually is a timeless, intelligent, and thoroughly wonderful movie about new love, young love, lost love, and impossible love. With a star-studded cast and enough charm to melt Scrooge’s heart, it’s a perfect romantic comedy and Christmas movie.
Playing Along
I loved Rory Samantha Green’s book Playing Along. I really loved it, so much that I’m having trouble writing a review, because I don’t want to give anything away. I’ll tell you this much:
The Food of Love
The story of Cyrano de Bergerac’s love for Roxane has been retold and retooled umpteen times on stage, in film, and in writing, yet The Food of Love, by Anthony Capella, still manages to bring a unique spin to the well-known tale. In this case, Roxane is Laura, an American 20-something visiting Italy for the […]
Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
I love Jenny Colgan books, and Meet Me at the Cupcake Café is even better than the usual fare because it combines two of my favorite things: sweet and funny chick lit with yummy food. When protagonist Issy Randall is made redundant (American translation: laid off), she decides to follow her dream of opening a […]
Sex and the City
Though I love the TV show, Candace Bushnell’s book Sex and the City is very dull. I actually read it long before I ever started watching the show – in fact, that’s why I held out for so long. You know how you read a fantastic book and then are often disappointed by the book? […]
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity was not only the first guy lit book I ever read, it also preceded my discovery of chick lit by a couple of years. I was living in Paris in the summer of 96 and reading my way through the bookshelf of the British woman whose studio I was subletting. I […]
Rachel’s Holiday
Marian Keyes, the queen of Irish chick lit, delved into the serious subject of drug addiction in her third book, Rachel’s Holiday, but managed an amazing job of mixing those horror stories with romance and humor. The end result is a wonderful book about another of the Walsh sisters – it’s funny and sad, serious […]
Last Chance Saloon
Last Chance Saloon is Marian Keyes’s first novel told from multiple third-person points of view. It’s the story of old friends and new loves, growing up and seeing people for who they really are. Between the hair-obsessed actor and the woman who learns that it’s ok to need someone, it will make you laugh and […]
Cereal Lover
Joan Conway’s Cereal Lover is probably one of the least-known great chick lit novels. The writing style is very similar to Marian Keyes’s* and the story is a little nutty, but that just makes it more fun. This is one of my favorite books – it’s a quick, funny read. *So much so that for […]