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I loved watching the movie so much that I finished the three books over the weekend, after watching the movie last Friday.

Mockingjay was my most favorite among the three books.

Catching Fire’s ending got me stumped. It was a bit anti-climactic, but being a young-adult book, I guess I should have expected that the author would not explain the whys of every character’s decision internally. It was still a bit tragic, as with every war’s ending. But how Katniss played her part, and Peeta’s, was very admirable. It’s hard to imagine these are 18 to 19 year olds!

I would love to re-read these books again, when I have the luxury of time. I am looking forward to the second installment of the movie!

Sophie does it again! While I am not a huge fan of the Shopaholic series, I really loved her Twenties Girl book and this one is no exception. I literally could not stop reading it and could not put it down I was able to finish it in a night. I was really smiling in the last chapters of the book. Kinsella has this way of making you giddy and longing at the same time, without needing to paint a very physical description of the characters. She also makes the pair work – even if, for example, the male lead works a festool during the day and the girl is a high-end career executive.

I would definitely recommend this book!

I’ve Got Your Number
Sophie Kinsella

Summary:
I’ve lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn’t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It’s been in Magnus’s family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I’ve lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate Poppy. Stay positive!!

Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry the ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her ‘happy ever after’ begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring but in the panic that followed, she has now lost her phone. As she paces shakily round the hotel foyer she spots an abandoned phone in a bin. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!

Well, perfect except the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading all his messages and wading into his personal life.

What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other’s lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents… she soon realises that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life.

Bitter is the New Black
Jen Lancaster

Summary:
(from Amazon.com)
Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life-until real life kicked her to the curb.

She had the perfect man, the perfect job-hell, she had the perfect life-and there was no reason to think it wouldn’t last. Or maybe there was, but Jen Lancaster was too busy being manicured, pedicured, highlighted, and generally adored to notice.

This is the smart-mouthed, soul-searching story of a woman trying to figure out what happens next when she’s gone from six figures to unemployment checks and she stops to reconsider some of the less-than-rosy attitudes and values she thought she’d never have to answer for when times were good.

Filled with caustic wit and unusual insight, it’s a rollicking read as speedy and unpredictable as the trajectory of a burst balloon.

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I finally was able to get started on my reading again – this time, through the iBooks app in my iPhone (at my current state in life, e-books are going to be my lifesavers). I found the book fun, even though there were some bits where I thought it was a bit dragging. There were no scenes that needed discount crowd control ropes but I can understand and somewhat relate how she shifted from living the high-life to the unemployed (for so long!). The book is based on the real-life of the author – a fun read!

They say that books are food for the soul. It is not surprising that reading books is looked upon as a valuable tool for learning. Unfortunately, in this highly technological world, books are being pushed farther and farther back behind all the electronic gadgets that keep sprouting up like mushrooms. Nowadays, some people would rather tap and click rather than turn a page of a real actual book.

This is the reason why BooksFree.com is such an online treasure. This website allows you to rent books or audiobooks. It is like having a library right in your own home. All you have to do is register, create your book list then BooksFree.com will send them to you for free. You can borrow the books for as long as you like and then you may return them through mail as well.

You can choose from various plans which differ in the number of books you can borrow every month. You can even choose whether to pay monthly, semi-annually, or annually. BooksFree.com accepts several payment methods including PayPal to provide you with more convenience. The only drawback is that BooksFree.com is only currently able to service the United States and its territories. To entice more people to read, BooksFree.com is even offering a free trial.

With the amazing service that you can find at BooksFree.com, the design and look of the website is only secondary. Still, it does not hurt that BooksFree.com looks very professional and well-designed. Navigation is also excellent with the book selection page categorized into genres to make it easier for their customers. With a site like BooksFree.com, many people just might consider reading more books.

I am a woman who belongs to the age group that is right smack on the center of our reproductive years. It’s either we read books about pregnancy advice and digest every type of pregnancy information we can read or hear, unsolicited advice or not, or we read chick lit books.

And let’s face it, it is much more appealing to divert our attention to the land of romance, comedy and fantasy than focus on womens health.

Lately, my friends and I have been engrossed in exchanging e-books. Most of us have smartphones (an android, a Kindle, iPad or an iPhone) that we have taken to reading ebooks on our spare time. Most of the books we have been reading are light reads – aka what the modern world now calls chick lit.

Chick Lit – which is an abbreviated term for Chick (Girl) Literature – is now considered a type of fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, in comedic and often light tones. Feminists have gone as far to say that it is literature written by women FOR women. . In fact, most of these books have already been produced into rom-com movies!

From the Shopaholic Series to Bridget Jones’ Diary and Sex and the City, I have noticed that English (UK) women writers are hilarious. I love Kinsella (and Rebecca Bloomwood, even if she is crazy!) and Sex and the City books have become the modern woman’s bible of sorts, especially to quote witty sayings.

Here is a list of popular chick lit books according to GoodReads.com. :

1. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
2. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Helen Fielding)
3. The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
4. Can You Keep A Secret? (Sophie Kinsella)
5. The Undomestic Goddess (Sophie Kinsella)
6. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (Shopaholic 2)
7. Good in Bed (Jennifer Weiner)
8. Something Borrowd (Emily Griffin)
9. Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Shopaholic 3)
10. Remember Me? (Sophie Kinsella)
11. Have you read any of the books?