My biggest secrets...revealed!
If you haven't yet read a Sophie Kinsella novel, you must. Look away from the screen, as hard as that may be, and stroll into your favourite bookstore. Right now. Well, ok. Only if you're a girl. Or a girly man. But you don't have to be a girly girl. I'm certainly not. I'm not a shopaholic by any stretch of the imagination. I can't even remember the last time I bought myself a pair of shoes (Do 2 pairs of chinese slippers for $6 count? Cuz that was a few weeks ago, but otherwise it's been forever!) But somehow, despite our differences, I love the silly things. Once I start, I truly can't stop. Case in point: Dov bought me the newest one, Can You Keep a Secret, for my birthday last week. My secret: I carried the pink book around in my purse for days. Every time I had to wait for someone or something, I'd take it out and read a few pages. Last night, although exhausted, I read it until 5 am. I just couldn't put it down. I'm so embarassed. It's hard-core chic-lit. Gossip column meets romance novel. There's absolutely no thinking involved, which isn't really my thing. I don't usually do fiction. If I'm taking time out of my busy schedule to fit in a good read, I like to learn something in the process. But Kinsella just pulls you in. Her voice - it's so natural, so witty, so optimistic. It's like she's an old girlfriend who came over to have a sherry and tell me what she's been up to for the last few months. Not that I'd have any sherry to offer her. (Another secret: I don't even really know what that is. And I'm a bartender for goodness sake!) The books just make me smile. And I love to smile. So here are some of my secrets to make you smile:
1. I kill plants. I don't water them when I'm supposed to. I even bought special plant food to help them grow but never used it.
2. I don't like it when people lick my face. Ew!
3. I hate my hair. And my feet.
4. My vocabulary is inadequate. I always want to make friends with a dictionary but then, I think to myself, I have enough friends.
5. I don't go grocery shopping and I only cook when I'm pressed to invite my family over.
posted by sam-i-am @ 3:45 p.m.
3 Comments:
I secretly read this book too. I also read three of the four shopoholic books. They are enjoyable though a little annoying.
I don't think my vocabulary is good enough either, but I like your hair.
on visiting 'chic lit'...
I have just finished reading "C'est la Vie", a memoir by Suzy Gershman, who is, apparently, a shopping goddess and has written tons of shopping books and been on Oprah ....
It's about her decision to move to Paris after the death of her husband, and start fresh. And well, I've begun pretending Toronto is Paris and spent three days last week drinking coffee at sidewalk cafes, and actually went shopping for shoes!Go figure!
C'est la vie,
Kathy O'Brien
women are defintely insane. but men are just plain nuts.
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