Oh how I love Sophie Kinsella! Her Shopaholic series is among my very favorites and one of four works/series of which I collect different editions and copies in foreign language. I previously posted on another work by this author, albeit under her legal name of Madeleine Wickham and her stand alone books rarely disappoint me. So I went into this reading knowing I had some good pages ahead of me. She didn't fail me.
Title: Twenties Girl
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Dial Press Trade
Publish Date: 2010
My start date: 8/11/10
My finish date: 8/15/10
Book count: 39/100
As is often the case with even my favorite books, the first chapter of this one left me a wee bit hesitant. I mean, a girl and ghost duo? Really? Yet Kinsella/Wickham has that touch. I LOVED it! Her characters pull me in without fail. I just can't help but to identify with and like them! Her shopaholic protagonist, Rebecca Bloomwood, somehow always makes me want to immediately go shopping. These characters were no different. By far the most charming was the ghost half of the duo, Sadie. Kinsella brings the youth of the 20s alive and, perhaps more importantly for me, puts a youthful and vibrant face of these wonderfully cherishable but oft forgotten and underacknowledged seniors of the world. How easy it is for us to regard our grandparents and greatgrandparents, or even our parents and older siblings as nothing other than the adults which they represent to us. Can you picture your grandparents clubbing? Just because they didn't dance the same techno craze you might find today, doesn't mean they didn't have just as much fun. We tend to remember our grandparents the way they are at the end, rather than the way we would all perhaps want to be remembered, and that is at our prime. Kinsella exlores that feeling, but in a rich and often comedic way. How she pumps so much emotion into so light a work just amazes me.
For fear of giving too much of the plot away, I will leave it at that, but suffice it to say that this is yet another homerun for the already successful Kinsella.
Also, since this blog is my personal space in addition to the more professional review side of things, in thinking about grandparents I want to dedicate this particular post to the memory of my stepgrandmother, whom we lost yesterday. Although far too young to have had anything to do with the twenties, she was nonetheless a grandparent about whom I have many cherished memories and about whom I hope we can all remember in her "prime" moments. You will be missed, Kathymarie.
Oh, and one last note on Kinsella. In checking her webpage for tidbits on this particular novel, I was very pleasantly surprised to see a new addition to the Shopaholic series rolling off the press next month. Woohoo! They don't usually sneak up on me like that, but I am thrilled to know I won't have to wait long for it! Expect that one on this blog before too long!
In the meantime,
Keep Reading!
Sarah
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