Talking to Addison - Jenny Colgan Reviews

"Talking to Addison" is Jenny Colgan's second "best seller"....but I was most disappointed with it. I read "Amanda's Wedding" on holiday this year. I got it free with "Cosmopolitan" magazine, but the paper back sat on my bookshelf for nearly a year before I read it. You see, I didn't ...

I picked this up at a bookstore for £1 I thought it would be like Amanda's Wedding. It was but not as funny as I expected. It's all about Holly & everybody in her life. Holly is an (un)employed florist. She's in good company though when she moves in with a bunch of misfits like her. Josh who's as nice as pie but has ...

This is a light-hearted story about a group of twentysomething friends, each trying to find their identity and their ideal partner. There is little of real substance in the storyline or the characters and at times the narrative is also rather irritating (for example it seems that in every other paragraph a character begins a sentence with the ...

Don't blame Bridget Jones. How could she have known that keeping a journal would spawn a whole new genre? While chick-lit may be disparaged in the broadsheets, its popularity shows no signs of being on the wane. And at #5.99 for a quick fix of girly chat, sexy blokes and unlikely adventures, who can blame the thousands of women ...

This is my first and probably my last book review on Dooyoo. I am normally beyond pathetic when it comes to explaining plots and characters. Also this is only the third book I have read since I was forced to read Shakespeare at school. So three weeks ago I decided I would let my hair down and read a few books. I have to say I have ...