Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
What we're reading

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

Original poster

can anyone reccomend a good chick lit book please?

87 replies

lizandlulu · 16/05/2008 19:52

or something like chick lit. i am going on holiday soon and want a good book for the beach. i will be child free so want to make the most of my free time
i loved the shopaholic and baby books, ps i love you, that sort of thing.
any reccomendations please?

OP posts:
Umlellala · 19/05/2008 12:28

have just finished the nanny by melissa nathan which was v good. (can send it to you for postage if you CAT me). i also second 'i don't know how she does it'.

hatjam · 19/05/2008 11:25

goodbye jimmy choo
brown owl's guide to life
busy woman seeks wife
(can't remember authors)

ElizabethBeresford · 17/05/2008 08:47

Thanks Oli. I've made a quick note of that . Other,inheritance,queen.virgin.
got it.

livinglavidalurker2 · 17/05/2008 08:19

For non chick lit, I highly recommend Red Leaves and Tully by Paulina Simmons. Not very uplifting though... Nothing wrong with chick lit - wish I could write some!

lillypie · 17/05/2008 08:03

Any thing by Fiona Walker

themildmanneredjanitor · 17/05/2008 07:59

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

mellyonion · 17/05/2008 07:57

hi again...honestly, you say you love anything about babies, struggling, managing...thats exactly what the allison pearson book is about....fab!

my other faves, although not chick lit, is the barrytown trilogy by roddy doyle. gritty, funny, easy to read.... its 3 books in one...the commitments (you know the film about the band set in dublin?) the snapper, and my fave, the van.

have ordered loads from the book people...they're great.

Olihan · 16/05/2008 22:36

They go in the order I've typed them, EB. The two Boleyn ones are Henry VIII's reign, The Queen's Fool is the end of his reign, Edward then Mary's reigns and the beginning of Elizabeth I's and the Virgin Lover is the start of her reign and her affair with Robert Dudley.

ElizabethBeresford · 16/05/2008 22:24

what's the first one olihan? is the order printd in the inside cover?

Olihan · 16/05/2008 22:16

Oh, or slightly more 'proper' books are the Philippa Gregory historical novels. I've just read all the Tudor ones (The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool and The Virgin's Lover). They're written in a modern way but are very evocative of the period, iykwim. I'm not into history but really enjoyed them.

ElizabethBeresford · 16/05/2008 22:15

This Charming Man by Marian keyes is supposed to be excellent.

Nothing by Cecilia Ahern obviously because there is good shite and there is pure shite.

hullygully · 16/05/2008 22:13

oxymoron

Blueskythinker · 16/05/2008 22:08

Best book ever = the Ivy Chronicles (can'trememebr who by - amazon will know)

desperatehousewifeintraining · 16/05/2008 21:55

Fiona Walker always a winner with me, have loved most of her books....

Lots of love and tongue in cheek probably my faves!!

georgiemama · 16/05/2008 21:55

You don't need chick lit - you need Jane Austen. Honest, give sense and sensibility or emma a go, you'll love em, every chick lit book ever written is a direct rip off of the great Ms Austen and her fabulous books.

Or try Nancy Mitford (don't worry, she wasn't the one married to a fascist)

Nighbynight · 16/05/2008 21:55

I am reading the Olivia Joules book by Helen Fielding at the moment, it is OK.

Witty and funny is Virginia Ironside's No I don't want to Join a Bookclub. Sort of OAP chicklit, but v enjoyable.

Original poster
lizandlulu · 16/05/2008 21:48

what would you suggest? im am not meaning that funny, but am trying to find a really good book and am open to suggestions about anything.
i usually read non fiction books, torey hayden, childhood memoirs and anything to do with gangsters when i am at home.
i find torey hayden brilliant. i have read all her books and found them all to be as good as the last.

OP posts:
DumbledoresGirl · 16/05/2008 21:41

Agree. But not from chick lit.

Original poster
lizandlulu · 16/05/2008 21:37

sometimes you need a bit of froth

OP posts:
blueshoes · 16/05/2008 21:37

I normally cannot get past the first page of a chick lit book. This is the only one that is bearable and I managed to get to the end - in a few weeks.

And God Created Aupair. It is not about an aupair at all. Just a funny account of a few mothers getting through their different domestic situations.

DumbledoresGirl · 16/05/2008 21:35

A good chick lit book? The word Oxymoron springs to mind...

Original poster
lizandlulu · 16/05/2008 21:31

bran- how much do the book people charge for delivery? do you know. i cant find out unless i sign up with them. dont really want to do that unless i buy something. also have you bought from them befoer, have you had any problems?

OP posts:
mrsshackleton · 16/05/2008 21:26

Read a book recently called Amy's Honeymoon which I really enjoyed, then another by same author called If I Were You, Julia Llewellyn (sorry took a few seconds to remember name, hope I spelled right)
Also really rate Maeve Binchy, she has an old fashioned vibe but her books are ace. Try Tara Road or the Glass Lake, big and fat too

Original poster
lizandlulu · 16/05/2008 21:08

i have read the undomestic goddess and slummy mummy books, they were excellent and just the kind of thing i am looking for.

i cant get into jodi picoult books at all. i have tried, but ive up after the first few pages. im not sure which one it was, but it put me of the rest of them and have never tried to read anything else by her.

i have has the little black book books before and was surprised at how good it was, but are they all really short? i am a fast reader and one of those would only last about a day if i was at the beach, so would have to take about 3!!i have read a couple of jane green books too. anything to do with babies, managing, struggling and i am there

OP posts:
RubyRioja · 16/05/2008 20:37

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Swipe left for the next trending thread