Posted in Books, Chick Lit, Humor, Melissa's Picks on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries, the Mediator series and various other popular young adult books, is also a funny, entertaining author of adult contemporary fiction.
Cabot introduces us to Lizzie Nichols in Queen of Babble. Lizzie is a recent college grad – well, she thought she was a grad. She found out at [...]
Posted in Books, Chick Lit, Melissa's Picks, Romance on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Melissa Romney-Jones has mastered the unappreciated art of planning a party, buying the right present, and dressing well. She has used her talents to work in various jobs, but she downplays her contributions and frequently is the one to get canned when companies lay off staff. After the latest administrative job goes down [...]
Posted in Books, Chick Lit, Fast-paced, Melissa's Picks, Mysteries, Quirky characters on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Chick Lit meets Mystery in this clever debut by Lisa Lutz about Izzy Spellman, 28-year-old private investigator in her family’s firm, Spellman Investigations.
The story is an interesting, entertaining mix of family relationships, mystery, romance, friendships, coming of age… and I didn’t realize it was complicated until I started trying to write about it here. [...]
Posted in Books, Charlotte's Picks, Chick Lit, Quick read, Quirky characters on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Listen Taylor’s magical spell book, which the rising 7th-grader discovers just before the start of the school year, isn’t a very good example of its kind. If you’re going to work magic, you want spells that actually do something, preferably right away, maybe a poof of colored smoke. Listen’s book contains spells for things like [...]
Posted in Books, Chick Lit, Clever dialogue, Humor, Quick read, Quirky characters, Sense of place, Young Adult on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
If you are looking for a light, very funny Chick Lit read, you may want to give Liz Rettig a try with her debut novel, My Desperate Love Diary. I couldn’t put it down! It is written in the first person in diary format, and tells of the ups and downs of sixteen year old [...]
Posted in Chick Lit, Fantasy, Melissa's Picks on December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Jane Madison, a 29-year-old librarian for a special 18th century American history library in D.C., gets her salary cut by the board and in compensation, gets to live in the gardener’s cottage on the grounds of the library. She loves her job, so she accepts the cuts with a grimace and dutifully moves in. [...]
Posted in Books, Chick Lit, Melissa's Picks on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I could say I picked this one as a Wednesday pick-me-up, but I used that line on Monday. The truth is, I like the guilty pleasure of chick lit. It’s the whole package — contemporary setting, self-discovery, landing the great job and potential romance that draws me in. Smolinski is a new author for [...]
Posted in Books, Chick Lit, Humor, Melissa's Picks on September 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Let’s start the week off with something fun and frivolous! Stroymeyer is the author of the “Bubbles Yablonsky” mystery series – and brings a great sense of fun to her romance stories.
In The Sleeping Beauty Proposal Genie Michaels has been living with her boyfriend, Hugh, for four years. She’s long past ready for that [...]
Posted in Books, Chick Lit, Fast-paced, Humor, Quick read, Young Adult on September 7, 2007 | 7 Comments »
For me, a good read will usually have a substance-abusing dark hero, a depressing tone, a really high body count, and maybe a zombie thrown in for good measure.
Small wonder that I don’t read much chick lit. All that fashion interferes with the police chase scenes.
(Okay, exception: Undead and Unwed has a really high body [...]
Posted in Audiobook, Books, Chick Lit, Fast-paced, Melissa's Picks on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Chick Lit meets Regency England in this satisfying story about a modern woman looking for her own Mr. Darcy.
Jane Hayes has a secret obsession with Pride and Prejudice – and all of her previous relationships fall short of the love found within Jane Austen’s novels. She knows she has a problem – she just [...]
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