The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed reading this book. Like most of Kinsella's novels, it's funny and witty, but leave's you feeling good in the end. About a high powered lawyer in of London's top law firms who makes a huge mistake and run's away to become a housekeeper for an uppity couple in the country. She screws up at first, but learns to run a house and cook and finds that she quite enjoys cooking and cleaning. What I liked about this book is how the main character really finds herself and finds out what she wants from life and wants to do with her life. She finds happiness in the smallest of things. I like how she can make a life altering decision and still be happy. It was uplifting and feel good.



The couple she does housekeeping for cracks me up. They are so oblivious to anything outside their little world.


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Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
I can't say that ths was my favorite Kinsella book, although, I did still like it which is why I gave it 3 stars. And I really liked the ending. I did find it interesting how Kinsella wrote a character who started out with no ambition and who didn't find herself very attractive. Then she wakes up 3 years later in a hospital, drop dead beautiful, successful, and with a Cinderella life but doesn't remember how she got there. At times, I found the story and plot to be a little weak and felt like it wasn't really going anywhere. But in the end, Lexi came out shining.



What I did like about his book, though, was the fact that the main character, Lexi, was able to take a really good look at herself and take stock of her life. What she did, how she got there, where she was going, and if that was where she wanted to end up. Kind of like we do with our own live's every once in a while. Even it takes a bump on the head.





(I do wish that Kinsella would not feel the need to use the F word so often.)


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Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
I really quite enjoyed reading this book. I found myself laughing out loud a few times. Kinsella knows how to take an ordinary girl and put her into the most unusual circumstances and then you have to keep reading to find out how she gets herself out.



I loved this Kinsella character, Emma Corrigan. She's funny, sweet, lighthearted, but seems to say more than she should. And it eventually gets her into trouble. But it also brings good things into her life which outweighs the bad. And when person, whom she spills her guts to, starts to confront her on lot of these 'secrets', she really starts thinging about what she wants and become's a stronger person. Althought, she does have to worm herself out of some awkward situations.



(I did love how she got her roommate, Jemima, in the end. That was pretty classic. You'll have to read to understand.)


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Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed reading this book. I found this to be a little different from her other mystery novels, and I have read all of them.



In this one, Emily Wallace is a prosecutor trying a man for murder but is fighting with her inner feelings of his innocence. Her star witness is not exactly credible. What would you do if you were facing 10 years jail time? She is also a heart transplant patient and a war widow. Lives by herself in a small, New Jersey town next to an older man who she is not exactly sure is very credible as well. Whodunnit???



Clark adds alot more into this beside's a murder trial and trying to solve a mystery. I think I enjoyed this more than her other mysteries.


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