Sure I love the occasional soap opera, movies with Hugh Grant, dark chocolate M&Ms; the usual guilty pleasures. But my biggest guilty pleasure would have to be British Chick Lit. Yes, it must be British, because American Chick Lit is rather boring and terribly written. Brit Chick Lit (it's even fun to say!), while cliche most of the time, is fun and unusual. It never takes itself seriously, and presents women who are flawed, but still have a great time. And best of all, they use vocabulary you'd never hear your best friend use.
My recent BCL, "Confessions of a Shopaholic," was picked for two reasons:
1) I have wanted to read it for a while, hearing from others that it was really smart and funny.
2) The movie is coming out soon, and so it inspired me to start earlier than later.
Now, I was kind of skeptical about starting this book. I hate hate hate shopping, so how was I going to enjoy a book about a professional shopper?? But after realizing that it was by a British author, I decided not to hold the shopping part against it. And the good news: not even that much shopping! It really was much better than I had expected, although of course not a literature gem. Definitely good for a laugh.
Here's some of my favorite vocab used in the novel:
- a skip = an English term for dumpster, sounds more pleasant
- fusty = meaning stale and old-fashioned
- on the hop = I couldn't actually find a definition for this phrase, but based on its usage ("You had us all on the hop" p. 301), I believe it's a way of saying "in a frenzy". Ex. Wall Street has been on the hop ever since the Recession was made public.
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