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Something Borrowed/Something Blue
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Mar 31, 2011 7:21pm
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I just gone done with these two chick lit novels by Emily Giffin called
Something Borrowed and
Something Blue. (I also really wanted to check out Ryan's new trick!) Chick lit to me is just literary candy. You can see the ending a mile away, but they're entertaining and sometimes they pleasantly surprise you by being a little deeper than you expect them to be.

These two were not at all any deeper than I expected them to be. ;) However, they were good for fluffy entertainment before bed. They are about two childhood best friends who grow into adulthood best friends, and they're pretty much stock characters. Rachel is the hard-working, smart, considerate one, and Darcy is the brash, selfish shopaholic who has always gotten by on her looks. In the first book, Rachel is the narrator, and we hear the story of how she uncharacteristically has an affair with Darcy's fiance. She feels really bad about it, but she does it anyway. In the second book, Darcy is the narrator, and it picks up pretty much where we left off in the first one, with her realizing what her so-called best friend was doing behind her back and then finding out that she's pregnant due to a few encounters with the would-have-been best man at the wedding.

I'd read Emily Giffin again. I think these are the only two about these characters. What I don't understand is why, for chick lit, Something Borrowed was such a big hit. The writing is fine but not amazing, the story pretty much goes where you expect it to go, and I don't even find Darcy's character even a little bit sympathetic in either book. Just wondering why so many critics said that it was chick lit but a real "standout" for the genre.
Re: Something Borrowed/Something Blue
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Reply to: #596193 by Brandy
Apr 1, 2011 4:48am
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Haven't read ChickLit for a bit (currently immersed in SciFi), but my favorite authors are/were:
[Melissa Nathan and Megan Crane...
Re: Something Borrowed/Something Blue
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Reply to: #596193 by Brandy
Apr 1, 2011 7:54am
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I haven't read Emily Giffin, but I do like some chick lit. My favorite chick lit author is Marianne Keyes. She is an Irish author with a quirky sense of humor. Her books always seem like they are going to be total fluff, but are really quite deep and deal with a lot of serious topics (unplanned pregnancy, addiction, abuse, etc).

I started with Last Chance Saloon (thanks Bokmal for buying me that book so many years ago) and have never looked back. There aren't many authors whose books I'll buy these days, but Marianne Keyes is one that I am happy to have as part of my personal library.

SJ HB
Re: Something Borrowed/Something Blue
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Reply to: #596327 by Woman to Blame
Apr 1, 2011 8:32am
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I started with Last Chance Saloon (thanks Bokmal for buying me that book so many years ago) and have never looked back. There aren't many authors whose books I'll buy these days, but Marianne Keyes is one that I am happy to have as part of my personal library.

So glad you liked it, I suppose I should give her a try sometime too.

I don't read much chick lit either, but do enjoy some of Lorna , scanning my bookshelf to see if I can spot one of her books to find her last name, but no. Oh, I remember, Lorna Landvik. She is a little uneven, but I did like Patty Jane's House of Curl and Oh My Stars

Bokmal
Re: Something Borrowed/Something Blue
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Reply to: #596348 by Bokmal
Apr 1, 2011 9:38am
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Oh My Stars

That sounds like something the cowboys would say on The Amazing Race.
SJ HB