Cheers to the new month Fictionaddicts!
April was such a fantastic month. I had one of the
best holidays and I’m sure we all put the Easter holidays to good use by
spending quality time with family, friends, loved ones and some good books.
Well it’s May Day today.
Happy May
Day!!!! It’s a holiday preceded by a weekend and what better day to start
reading a new book (*winks*). I’m particularly happy because I get to spend the
whole day reading. NO WORK DEADLINES whatsoever.
This month we’ll be
reading not one book, but two books! Drumroll pleaseeee….
1. The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
2. One Fifth
Avenue by Candace Bushnell.
So, I guess we are all in for double the fun
and enjoyment!
The Undomestic Goddess:
Miss Samantha Sweeting is a workaholic lawyer in London on her way to becoming
Partner at Carter Spink. She has put in seven years of determination, hard work,
billable hours at the firm and practically put other aspect of her life on hold
for Cater Spink. However, she’s made a mistake that might cost her all that she’s
ever worked for including losing partnership at one of London’s most prestigious
law firms- Carter Spink. Imagine all that hard work, time and energy going down
the drain just because of one mistake. Terrified of being fired she takes off
to nowhere in particular in mind after discovering her mistake that could cost
the firm GBP50,000,000. She finds herself in the countryside home of a wealthy
couple who mistake her for a housekeeper from the agency. In that dazed state,
she fails to tell the couple that she’s not a housekeeper and instead accepts
the job. The problem is, Samantha can’t cook, wash, clean or even iron. She’s
totally undomesticated and makes so many laughable errors on her first few days
on the job.
…“I reach for the ironing board, trying to look matter-of- fact, as if I
do this all the time. I tug briskly at one of the metal legs, but it won’t
move. I try another one with no luck. I am pulling harder till I’m hot with
effort, but the bloody thing won’t budge. How am I supposed to open it up?
“It’s got a catch,” Trish says watching me in surprise, “Underneath”.
She takes the board from me and in two movements has opened it to exactly the
right height. I expect you’re used to a different model” she adds wisely as she
clicks it shut. “They all have their own little tricks”.
“Absolutely!” I say, seizing on this excuse in relief. Of course!
I’m far more used to working with a …a… a Nimbus 2000.”
Trish peers at me in surprise. “Isn’t that the broom stick out of Harry Potter?”…
Soon she learns the tricks
of her new job from a woman in the village who happens to be the mother of the
gardener, Nathan, who she eventually falls in love with.
Download The Undomestic Goddess here
One Fifth Avenue : One
Fifth Avenue , one of Manhattan’s oldest building in a very hip neighborhood is
the kind of address everyone wants. For the women of One Fifth Avenue , the
building is at the heart of the lives they have established pr hope to
establish. There’s Schiffer Diamond, a forty-something actress busily proving
that women of style are truly ageless. Spoiled Lola, is determined to launch herself
into society and the arms of the right man by sleeping her way into the
building. There’s also Mindy who is the head of the building board, though she
lives with her husband and son in the worst apartment in the building. Enid is
the grand dame of gossip and also has a nephew in the same building. Louise
Houghton has died and her neighbors are anxious to have a say in who end up
living in her most coveted 7,000 square space in the building. Some neighbors
feel the apartment should be divided and sold. Others feel it would be sacrilegious
to break up Late Louise’s apartment into bits. Others just want it sold to the
highest bidder. A rich couple, new in town gets it for $15million. But when
Mindy, head of the apartment board refuses to let the newest occupants install through
the wall air-conditioning units in their apartment, a conflict arises.
Download One Fifth Avenue here
Enjoy reading bookaddicts!
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