I bought the book a week after I watched SATC2. A friend told me it was an easy and delightful read and I was curious I had to buy it. It took me two weeks before I actually opened to read it and once I read it, I couldn’t put it down and had to finish it.

It is true – it is easy reading. It is three levels higher than the Sweet Valley High and Sweet Dreams series and if you are a woman, you can somehow relate to all the awkwardness and bad choice of friends you might have made in high school. Back in high school, the most worry you can get is over-analyzing the eczema pictures you have in the yearbook.

When I was reading it, I was visualizing Sarah Jessica Parker on my head and her outfit in the movie circa first step in NYC – the 80’s. Imagine Footloose the movie costumes and you have it!

Here you get to see traces of what Carrie really is even after she became THE Carrie of SATC. She was always there for her friends – their priorities always seem to be higher than her own. She gets dense with guys, this time with gorgeous but bad boy Sebastian Kydd, who she has a crush on since she was 12. She freaks out when she realizes all her friends are slowly losing their virginity except her and yet she still maintains not to lose it in the end. Very Carrie for me, circa Aidan vs. Mr. Big time in SATC.

What was appealing here is that she has always been passionate about writing and through a mentor she never thought would be one to her, she claims top spot on doing what she does best – writing about men, love and (her seemingly lack of understanding) in relationships.

All that plot is great and keeps you glued to the page until the end, but what sticks with you later are Carrie’s internal musings.

On boys: "Boys’ mouths are never what you think they’re going to be anyway. Sometimes they’re stiff and sharp with teeth, or like soft little caves filled with down pillows."

Or even on calculus: "You never know when a rogue integer is going to show up and ruin your entire equation."

She maintains this wit even as she struggles between holding strong to the feminism her late mother instilled in her or taking the much easier path of losing herself and doing whatever boys will like more.