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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Best I've Read 2010

Best I've Read 2010 or BIR2010 was started by a friend of ours, Cindy from Books Complete Me. She asked us, and 7 other bloggers if we wanted to be part of a joint blog giveaway, which will feature a collection of all 9 bloggers favorite authors and books from 2010.

We LOVE having givewaways and sharing our favorite reads, and couldn't pass this up. Thank you Cindy, we are very excited to be apart of this! With a collective effort from some awesome bloggers, we have over 50 authors who are going to be featured!!! That means 50+ giveaways, as each blog is hosting DAILY giveaways starting December 6th and running them through December 14th, 2010. This wouldn't be possible with out the support of some fantastic publishers as well.

If you'd like to know which bloggers are taking part in this and what authors will be featured, be sure to visit our site here-Best I've Read 2010! You can also follow the tweets w/ the hashtag twitter the hashtag #BIR2010. You can find the link to the site via our button *seen above* in our right hand side bar.

Book Review - Twenties Girl

Published by Random House
Released on July 21, 2009
Source- Purchased.
4 Stars- I really liked this book. Go pick it up.

Synopsis (from Sophie's website): Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don’t get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara’s great aunt Sadie – in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl – has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can’t rest without.

For me, a classic chick-lit story has to have a certain, irreverent voice that causes you to chuckle as you're reading it. Lara's character certainly establishes that at the very beginning of the book:
The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them....Therefore they have been in my flat for approximately ten minutes and already I have told them the following lies:

1. L&N Executive Recruitment will start making profits soon, I’m sure of it.
2. Natalie is a fantastic business partner and it was a really brilliant idea to chuck in my job to become a headhunter with her.
3. Of course I don’t just exist on pizza, black-cherry yogurts and vodka.
4. Yes, I did know about interest on parking tickets.
5. Yes, I did watch that Charles Dickens DVD they gave me for Christmas, it was great, especially that lady in the bonnet. Yes, Peggotty. That’s who I meant.
6. I was actually intending to buy a smoke alarm at the weekend, what a coincidence they should mention it.
7. Yes, it’ll be nice to see all the family again.

Seven lies. Not including all the ones about Mum’s outfit.
Lara's problems are many -- her partner in their newly established head-hunting firm keeps extending her vacation, Lara's knowledge of recruiting is limited to thinking that it's similar to match-making and well, there's the small matter of reconciling her feelings for the ex-boyfriend who broke up with her in an email. To make matters worse, she's now haunted by the ghost of her 105-year-old, great-aunt Sadie who sends her on a mad-cap treasure hunt for a missing necklace. You see, Sadie cannot rest in peace until Lara finds the necklace. But Sadie's ghost is not the old person who died without anyone knowing much about her. No, she chose the form of the happiest time in her life when she was a 23-year-old flapper who would rather find a dashing dance partner than help Lara with her quest.

Many chick-lit plots solve a mystery and the one in Twenties Girl involves Lara's entire family as well as a journey of self-discovery. I loved reading the first two books in Sophie's Shopaholic series. They were laugh aloud funny and their plots, although at times predictable, were romantic enough to keep me interested. Twenties Girl takes everything I love about a Sophie Kinsella plot and adds a paranormal element to it. Yes, it's that good. If you're a Mundie Mom who is looking for a fun, romantic read, pick up Twenties Girl and I guarantee that you will find yourself giggling along with Sadie. You may even find yourself stirring your champagne with a swizzle stick.

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