The Devil Wears Prada
I haven’t done much of book reading lately. With the computer and the new baby, what a pity for my ‘Book Talk’ section.
The sneak peek of The Devil Wears Prada http://imdb.com/name/nm1916979/bio prompted me to backtrack on my have reads. I was not that awed with Lauren Weisberger’s writing genre. She’s good no doubt about that. But, if you have tasted Sophie Kinsella’s works first, the prior author mentioned would be a second fiddle.
Sophie’s Shopaholic series novels made it bigger than her two books I’ve read, The Undomestic Goddess and Can You Keep A Secret. Made me laugh and recommended it to all my reading mates. Then I got the same feedbacks-hilarious.
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THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her
London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they’ve hired a lawyer—and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. She can’t sew on a button, bake a potato, or get the #@%# ironing board to open. How she takes a deep breath and begins to cope—and finds love—is a story as delicious as the bread she learns to bake.
But will her old life ever catch up with her? And if it does…will she want it back? Also available |
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CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets—secrets she lets slip to just the wrong guy. Also available as an abridged audiocassette or CD from Random House Audio |
Both ladies are basically same in style, easy reads, light and comedy though Sophie is vividly funnier and inventive. They love the ‘Ally McBeal ‘ type of character. Again Kinsella is faster in flow, one of my musts to like a book.
Just me talking: maybe the title, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ made Lauren more catchy to the movie makers. Besides, in today’s signatured conscious world and women as the dominating viewers, indeed merely PRADA is a driving force.
Know what, Boogie(my husband) read this Prada book before I did. Who said its just for girls!
