Shopaholic & Sister

by Sophie Kinsella | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0385338090 Global Overview for this book
Registered by mcbeth of Miami, Florida USA on 11/6/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by mcbeth from Miami, Florida USA on Saturday, November 6, 2004
From Publishers Weekly:
Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) returns with a vengeance in bestseller Kinsella's fourth Shopaholic novel. Her 10-month globe-trot with hubby Luke was a shopping spree disguised as a honeymoon—heck, Becky will walk across hot coals for an aquamarine necklace (and thereby trick her Sri Lankan yogi into thinking she's achieved enlightenment)—but the problems of the real world (sort of) surface once the happy couple lands back in London. ("Luke's penthouse has its own lift right to the front door, which is just so cool!"). Even lovely Luke's patience is supremely tried when those two truckloads of purchases show up. What's worse: Becky's best friend, Suze, has found a new best friend, and her parents have discovered another daughter. Seems Dad had a fling with a train stewardess back in the 1970s—and Jessica was the result. Becky is over the moon, picturing heart-to-heart talks, shopping excursions, sisters' nights out and so forth—so she's totally unprepared for the actual Jessica, a frugal environmentalist who (gasp!) actually hates shopping. Prattling Becky tries to charm her sis, but it doesn't seem to be working; meanwhile, Luke is preoccupied with his job, and then there's that stranger from Milan whom Becky owes for getting her that impossibly perfect Angel bag... what does he want with Luke? Of course everything will work out in the end—and there will be a nice message about the importance of friends and family—but this installment isn't as winning as its predecessors.

Journal Entry 2 by mcbeth from Miami, Florida USA on Thursday, January 6, 2005
Loved it! Great entertainment, ending just begs for another Shopaholic installment.

Journal Entry 3 by mcbeth at on Saturday, January 8, 2005
Released on Saturday, January 08, 2005 at about 10:00:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at n/a in USPS, Traded to BookCrosser Controlled Releases.

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Mailing out to editorgrrl for a book exchange. Thanks for trading with me and I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did!

Journal Entry 4 by editorgrrl from New Haven, Connecticut USA on Thursday, January 13, 2005
Hardcover with dustjacket received in the mail from mcbeth in Miami, Florida, USA, in trade for See Jane Date. Now I can read the entire series!

From Booklist
Becky Bloomwood, shopaholic extraordinaire, is back. She and her new husband, Luke Brandon, have been on a whirlwind ten-month honeymoon that's taken them all around the world, but both are itching to get back to London. When they do return, Becky is disturbed to discover that her best friend has a new good buddy, and Becky's parents are acting strangely. It turns out that they've just learned that her dad fathered a child a few years before he met her mother. Becky is thrilled to learn she has a half-sister, until she meets Jess. Jess is nothing like Becky: her clothes aren't fashionable, she prefers dank caves to shoe stores, and she is incredibly frugal. After an awkward weekend together, the sisters part company on bad terms. To make matters worse, Becky's gotten herself into a pickle with a purchase that could put a strain on her marriage. Like the previous installments, Shopaholic & Sister is hilarious fun for Prada and Gucci aficionados.

Journal Entry 5 by editorgrrl from New Haven, Connecticut USA on Tuesday, May 31, 2005
I read all three sequels this weekend: Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Shopaholic Ties the Knot, and this. Read more at SophieKinsella.com. ("Sophie Kinsella" is the pen-name of author Madeline Wickham.)

I hated the first book, Confessions of a Shopaholic, but they seemed to get better & better. Perhaps they just grew on me. By the end of this one, I was looking forward to the next installment. Obviously the series isn't over, as this ends with a cliffhanger.

Reading them all at once like that, I noticed that all three books started with the word "OK"; two of them with the phrase "OK. Don't panic." (A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy homage, perhaps?) And many of the chapters also start with "OK."

Journal Entry 6 by editorgrrl from New Haven, Connecticut USA on Thursday, July 21, 2005
Mailed to an Army soldier in Afghanistan through anysoldier.com. I thought chicklit might be hard to come by out there, so I sent the entire series: Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Shopaholic Ties the Knot, and this book.

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