Chick Lit Book Reviews

Sadly I am finishing up the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. I love it. It’s one of my guilty pleasures.I’ve also read Metro Girl/Motor Mouth by Evanovich as well. I’m looking for another series to get into. I know about the Sue Grafton Alphabet series, I have made it to Q so far. Any other suggestions? I like chic lit, mysteries, romance and I am 24 if that helps any
I am sorry to hear that you to are stuck waiting for the next book in the series for Stephanie Plum. No one beats Janet Evanovich for character development and out of the box plot lines. My personal favorite is her grandmother followed closely by her "plus sized" sidekick.
After you have read "T is for Trespass" and "U is for Unforgiven", you might try some of these:

1. Regan Reilly series — Mary Higgins Clark/Carol Higgins Clark
2. Anna Pigeon series — Nevada Barr (it’s a little darker)
3. The Cat Who . . . . series — Lillian Jackson Braun
4. Harry Haristeen series — Rita Mae Brown
5. Hannah Swenson series — Joanne Fluke
6. Judith McMonigle series — Mary Daheim
7. Myron Bolitar series — Harlan Coben
8. Dick Francis — no one hero, all relate in some way to horse racing

I am still trying to find out a place where I can download/ stream new release movies without paying money, having to take a survey, signing up for anything, or downloading new software. Is there such a place?

YES! www.watch-movies-online.tv/ (the new version of the other working site
www.watchmovies-links.net

it’s legal, and its basically a site that has links to online versions of movies. so u type the movie u want and it gives u a bunch of links u can try so if 1 doenst work u have more that do work and it shows a rating for each link of how much % of poeple say it works or doesnt work. its FREE NO DOWLOAD needed. it links to sites u can also try like

www.letmewatchthis.com/

www.freefullmovies.net

www.moviewatchlist.com/

www.theonlydevice.com/

I want a book with a plot like of an ordinary girl who somehow meets a prince and then they fall in love. The romantic comedy or chic lit type of books with that type of plot line. No Harlequin romances please. Please give me the title and the author. Thanks!

I haven’t read a book like that yet but I once saw this movie called The Prince & Me (2004) and it’s about this young woman who meets this guy in university….they start dating but then she later notices that sometimes cameras and bodyguards follow him around. She wonders why, and he confesses that he’s a European prince.

All feedback welcome! I have more chapters also but wanted to see if there is even any appeal. I have more chapters but didn’t know how much room I had.

Chapter 1

“Did you read People yet!?” Kayla hollered into the phone before I even had a chance to say hello. It was too early on Saturday to deal with Kayla’s latest update on the eternal tribulations of the self-proclaimed Hollywood royalty.
“What now?” I halfheartedly inquired as I lifted my head off the pillow for the first time that Saturday. I checked my alarm clock. 8:57 AM. Was she crazy or something? With a quick glance across the bedroom at my apricot mane and sleepy brown eyes in the closet mirror it was clear I should lie back down for at least another month if it could remotely be considered beauty sleep.
“I can’t even believe it, Claire… I really can’t! How could he do that to her? Just after their sixth wedding anniversary too! It is just awful. I should really send her flowers or something!”
No matter what had happened to her favorite celeb of the week, Kayla insisted on talking about their escapades as if they happened to one of her dearest friends. This obsession was one of the best things about Kayla. She stays up on all the latest gossip and is a genuine sweetheart. After Ben and Jen Version 1 split up, she actually did sent flowers along with a hand written letter offering her deepest condolences over their tragic situation.
Apparently the drama this week was around the current “it” couple and rumored infidelity upon the movie set of the new Indiana Jones film. It was around some actor I had never seen before, except maybe in a Hanes commercial, getting it on with his makeup assistant.
“You weren’t sleeping were you?”
“No. It’s fine,” I replied suppressing my third yawn of the call.
Now that I did my best friend duty and convinced Kayla that this news had ruined any chances of enjoying the day, I hung up before any other earth shattering headlines caught her eye. Just a few more hours of sleep should do it…
Just as my head hit my cold, cream colored pillow the phone rang again. Crap. Mom.
This time I didn’t bother to say hello because I knew as soon as I answered she would already be mid-conversation.
“… So I told your father that we just cannot afford to get a new car right now. Now that the van’s air conditioning on the fritz, it is getting harder and harder to stop him from running out and picking up the new Chrysler. I mean, all we need to do is drive past a car dealer on the way to the store and he already starts singing.” It has been a joke in our house for years that my dad has a few little tunes he whistles when shopping for a new car. It is the running gag in our family and often sung to roast him during our annual Christmas Eve party.
“That is terrible, Mom… You should really try to avoid driving anywhere near a lot for the next few weeks,” I say as disinterested as possible in hopes she will get the hint and let me go to sleep.
“You sound tired. You weren’t still sleeping were you, dear?”
Guilt trip number two a success, I slipped myself out from under the covers and headed towards the shower.

I decided that since my sleep was unexpectedly interrupted this morning that I could forgo my morning run. I’ve been on this workout kick for weeks with my boyfriend and found myself better and better at coming up with excuses to skip the track and head right for the shower. Take yesterday. How can I be expected to go and put in a solid workout after my alarm wakes me up with “Super Troopers” by Abba? That song just ruins the whole day I tell you.

As I glance at my reflection in the rear view mirror I am pleased to see that the shower worked wonders and I could almost pass for human. Today I took the time to straighten my hair and it seems to be behaving itself, with the August humidity not yet reeking havoc on my selectively curly hair.
The most important thing to do today is hit up the grocery store. I am planning a quiet dinner at home this evening with my boyfriend Harris. We have officially been together for ten months and tonight I am going to show him that all the nights we have spent watching Iron Chef America and Hell’s Kitchen have been worth it.
Harris Mosley is the type of guy you always dream you will end up with. He is funny, charming, great with kids, and motivated to a level only rivaled by Donald Trump. Harris is about six feet tall, wonderfully fit, has a head of curly black hair, and blue eyes to die for. Think Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. Harris is currently finishing up his last year of Law School at DePaul University in downtown Chicago and has been clerking during the summers with a firm for the last two years. Harris is hoping that one day soon he can make partner and his firm will be retitled Joyce, Kessler, Reynolds, & Mosley.
The firm is not the only thing I’ve been hoping will get a name change sometime soon. Claire Mosley has a nice ring to it if you ask me. M

hey good story out there…I can help you a lot. I’ve made a website for authors/writers. If you want I help you or vice versa care to join it…http://authorscommunity.webs.com/ I will help you everytime…I myself write a book!

Because of illness and disability, I’m stuck in bed most of the time and can’t go to the cinema. I hate missing new releases and having to wait for DVD.

Is there anywhere I can watch movies legally online? I don’t mind paying for this, of course. The only reason I want to watch new release movies online is because I am unable to go to a cinema.

As far as I know there is only one legitimate place to watch it. I can’t stand those dumb surveys either but they make you do a short one then you are good to go. Just go here; http://www.movieidiot.com/

Earlier this year, Hasbro gave Scattergories a new box and promised "new categories". Does anyone know if the categories have been sufficiently updated to merit spending another $25? Or, were only a select few changed from the previous release?

I do not know, but having new categories is a nice thing, even though they are most likely overpriced.

I’ve searched everywhere on the internet and still I can’t find an up to date release date for the new iPod touch with camera/mic. Does anyone know anything at all?

They just released a new one and those are rumors just so you know.

They should probably be a little modern, like post-2000 or something… And not to mother-ish and not too childish. Thanks

Anything by Sophie Kinsella, She wrote the Confessions of a Shopaholic series, Undomestic Goddess, Can You Keep a Secret, and Remember Me…all very entertaining!

I need to find book reviews on women’s rights books for my history project, and I cant find any legitimate websites! Help please!

You will find "legitimate" book reviews in the New York Times, the Manchester Guardian and other newspapers that are online. Other papers you could use would include the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. There are many others — even the local free weekly might have book reviews.

You’re likely to be able to find these reviews simply by doing a Google search of the title.

To find titles, you can look through Google. For instance, you might start with "Backlash" by Susan Faludi. Look that title up on Amazon.com and then look to see what other titles Amazon suggests when you scroll down the page. You can think look up those books, and by looking at the suggested titles for those books, you can easily come up with a list of ten to twelve feminist titles. Off the top of my head, I’m embarrassed to say, the only other title that comes to mind is the Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. Other femimist authors might include Katie Roiphe, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, Marilyn French, Andrea Dworkin, and there are many others.

Search the titles in Google, and click on results that come from large, well known metropolitan newspapers — or magazines such as the New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times Book Review, or the New York Review of Books.

i want to write a chick lit for the american women. unfortunately i have never been to america and all that i know about the american woman’s preferences are from other chick lits. could anyone describe a normal american woman’s (20-30 ish) daily routine to me?

Depends on if they’ve got a job or they’re in school. If it’s a student, the daily routine is very different than if you’re writing about an advertising exec.
For me, it’s like this:
Wake up at 6:30
Get ready for work (shower, get dressed)
Grab a cup of coffee at Starbucks on the drive to work.
Work.
Lunch.
Work.
Run some errands before going home - sometimes grocery store, sometimes bank. I never seem to go home straight after work, I’ve always got something to do first.
Fix dinner for me and my boyfriend
Depending on the night, I’ll either go out (Fri. Sat.) to the movies with my bf or friends. Sometimes we’ll have a couple over at the apartment and have a game night.
If it’s a weeknight, I’ll usually watch some TV, hang out with the bf, read a book, go to bed.

On the weekends, wake up late. Most Saturdays are spent shopping and hanging out with friends. Sundays are relaxing at home. Straitening up the apartment, doing laundry. Boring and nice.