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2009 Books
Jul. 2nd, 2009 07:52 am16 - Beautiful People - Wendy Holden
Another light summer read. Takes in a cast of characters, none related to each other but brings most of them together at various points. It's about a vapid shallow manufactured Hollywood "actress", a serious British West End actress from a 10 generation family of serious acTORS, a beautiful young man, an earnest young nanny, and other characters in the circles of each of them...agents, family, employers. It's not very deep, it's entirely predictable, even some of the peripheral character names are kind of silly. (Totty Ponsonby-Pratt for a stuck up society woman) It's meant to be light reading and that's what it was, i enjoyed it well enough. Not something I really had to concentrate on. I do like "chick lit" and this is definitely in that genre. It's certainly not the best of the genre i've ever read but not the worst either. That book i read a few months ago probably registered the new low standard! Next up is Barbara Walters' autobiography, Audition
Yesterday was Canada Day and was a national holiday. Nice having a Wednesday off to break up the week. Next year it'll be a Thursday so a lot of people will take the Friday off. Because i stayed up late reading the night before, though, i didn't get up early enough to get to the parade that i'd planned on seeing. The weather wasn't all that encouraging either so in the end i just stayed home and did a bit of housework. Might take myself to a movie on Saturday afternoon. Again, weather isn't supposed to be cleared up so at least i'll get out of the house. I"m sure there will be something on i'll want to see.
Another light summer read. Takes in a cast of characters, none related to each other but brings most of them together at various points. It's about a vapid shallow manufactured Hollywood "actress", a serious British West End actress from a 10 generation family of serious acTORS, a beautiful young man, an earnest young nanny, and other characters in the circles of each of them...agents, family, employers. It's not very deep, it's entirely predictable, even some of the peripheral character names are kind of silly. (Totty Ponsonby-Pratt for a stuck up society woman) It's meant to be light reading and that's what it was, i enjoyed it well enough. Not something I really had to concentrate on. I do like "chick lit" and this is definitely in that genre. It's certainly not the best of the genre i've ever read but not the worst either. That book i read a few months ago probably registered the new low standard! Next up is Barbara Walters' autobiography, Audition
Yesterday was Canada Day and was a national holiday. Nice having a Wednesday off to break up the week. Next year it'll be a Thursday so a lot of people will take the Friday off. Because i stayed up late reading the night before, though, i didn't get up early enough to get to the parade that i'd planned on seeing. The weather wasn't all that encouraging either so in the end i just stayed home and did a bit of housework. Might take myself to a movie on Saturday afternoon. Again, weather isn't supposed to be cleared up so at least i'll get out of the house. I"m sure there will be something on i'll want to see.
