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“You can’t legally brag about your son since you named him “Carl”.”

I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue

January 17, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Jolene copes with her soul-sucking job by pretending to be invisible and ranting at her coworkers in emails in white text. But when she’s found out, she’s sentenced to anti-harassment training with the cute new HR rep and restrictions on her computer – except it turns out that she’s accidentally been given access to the emails of every single of her coworkers instead. Often funny and often sad and very much filled with petty office politics which verge just on unbelievable sometimes. Jolene is a […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: audiobook, Canada, chick lit, contemporary, humor, Mental Health, Natalie Sue, Romance

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:6 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: audiobook, Canada, chick lit, contemporary, humor, Mental Health, Natalie Sue, Romance ·
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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan

September 18, 2024 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

This book was meant to be a palate cleanser for me as I needed to put down the heavy non-fiction book I was reading about mental health (While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence). Woof. I’ve begun interacting more in Threads and asked that community for a fun book, and someone mentioned that Kevin Kwan (he of Crazy Rich Asians) had a new one out and I was sold: over-the-top and silly was just what I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: chick lit, Hong Kong, Kevin Kwan, lies and weddings

cheerbrarian's CBR16 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: chick lit, Hong Kong, Kevin Kwan, lies and weddings ·
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“something beautiful left town, and she never even knew its name”

Again, Rachel (2022) by Marian Keyes

June 3, 2023 by drmllz Leave a Comment

I haven’t been very well in the last couple of months–various new aches and pains and discomforts and a couple of random fevers; tests and scans come back OK for now; lots of “could be stress, could be anything” and late night browsing what “anything” might be (which is a bad thing to do, don’t do this). So I sought something chill to read (I’m about of a 10th of the way through Emily M. Danforth’s Plain Bad Heroines (2020) which is brilliant and tangled […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, chick lit, drmllz, marian keyes

drmllz's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR15, chick lit, drmllz, marian keyes ·
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If your therapist started writing chick-lit, this is what you’d get.

Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center

June 18, 2022 by RaRaGabor Leave a Comment

This is the second Katherine Center book I’ve read. My book club read How To Walk Away a couple years ago. It was fine! Not my usual cup of tea, but we actually had a good discussion around disability, the ethics that therapists should/do follow, etc. I thought Things You Save In A Fire might be a good addition for the Beach Reads presentation that I’m doing for work. Cassie Hanwell is a 26 year old fire fighter. She’s also a rising star in the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: chick lit, Katherine Center, women's fiction

RaRaGabor's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: chick lit, Katherine Center, women's fiction ·
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Big Summer is a Big Departure

Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner

March 12, 2021 by Siskel101 2 Comments

Daphne Berg and Drue Cavanaugh were once best friends until that one day where Drue pushed Daphne just way too far. They haven’t spoken since.  Looking back, Daphne realizes the friendship was a little one-sided and had a slight frenemies vibe. Six years later, Daphne has moved onffrom her friendship with Drue. She’s made a comfortable life as a social media influencer, she just made a major plus-size brand deal and she’s feeling comfortable in her body. Then Drue pushes back into her life. Drue is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: chick lit, Fiction, Jennifer Weiner, mystery

Siskel101's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: chick lit, Fiction, Jennifer Weiner, mystery ·
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You had me at “Thelma and Louise”

Hadley & Grace by Suzanne Redfearn

February 26, 2021 by Siskel101 Leave a Comment

I have to confess that I was drawn to this book by the comparisons to Thema and Louise by reviewers and the fact that it was free thanks to my Kindle Unlimited subscription.  The book doesn’t quite succeed in living up to the Thelma and Louise hype but I still found it entertaining. First we have Hadley (aka Budget Thelma), a woman in an abusive marriage.  Needing to escape , Hadley flees with her daughter and special needs nephew, knowing it might be her only […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: chick lit, Fiction, friendship, Suzanne Redfearn, Thelma and Louise

Siskel101's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: chick lit, Fiction, friendship, Suzanne Redfearn, Thelma and Louise ·
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