Ok, I finished “Persuasion” by Jane Austen but I’m going to wait until the end of the month and discussion session in BBC (check the link) to write about it.
Three books were finished this week as well. The first one is: “I Went to Vassar for This?” by Naomi Neale. The story of a headstrong PR and Ad specialist who is aiming for a big promotion with her last project but instead gets fired. She goes home and by a freak microwave accident, ends up in 1959 and lives (and works) there for three weeks; inhabiting body of a young woman who is very much like her (physically). She falls in love too and when by another accident she is thrown back to her time, she has a new take on life and a broken heart. But hey, what was that BANG from neighbor’s apartment?
It was a good story, strong characters, nice humor, good plot and all!
The second book was “Art geeks and prom queens” by Alyson Noel about a girl moving to Newport Beach California and starting in a private high school, up and downs of teenage life, privileged kids and shopping. Yup, as a resident of Orange county reading about it was fun and the description of South Coast Plaza and Fashion Island had me laughing pretty hard! Shopping is good and South Coast Plaza is one of my favorite shopping malls so of course I had fun reading the book.
The third book was “The curse of the Holy Pail” by Sue Ann Jaffarian. It was about an over-weight middle-aged paralegal living in Orange County (yes, again!) and solving mysteries. It was innnnnnnnnnnnteresting! Kind of boring toward the end with all the scene descriptions. The author has a tendency to talk and describe a little too much about small simple things like warping paper of a famous chocolate (like no one has ever heard of those cheapo chocolates!!) I wonder if she was paid by words, but hey; that’s just my opinion!