Book of the Month (July)

Emma Forrest: Namedropper

Emma Forrests debut novel is a wry, ascerbic sort-of homeage to adolescence. As witty and topical as her occasional journalistic output, it tells the tale of Viva Cohen, a 16-year-old girl who lives with her gay Uncle Manny and looks to Elizabeth Taylor as a mother figure. Her ascension into adulthood is less than graceful as she skips her GCSEs to be a 'band aid' to Ray, a successful rock star. When Ray and her best friend Treena betray her, she falls for Dylan, a more rebellious rock star in a rival band who wears an anorak in ninety-degree heat. Highly recognisable characters, cultural references and genuinely funny prose mixed together make Namedropper one of the best reads for a mile and elevate it high above most other such 'pulp fiction' available: I've read it about 5 times and each time it has been as good. So cool, Robert De Niro is even rumoured to have brought the film rights to it, you need to buy it, enjoy it and relive those heady teenage days in a cool, ironic fashion. Fantastic!

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The Beginning

Chick-Lit Bookclub Berlin - who wants to join?

Sushi for beginners does not mean for you eating with chopsticks but turning pages?
You know that the Devil Wears Prada (and not Gucci)?
You've lived from bankruptcy to motherhood with Becky Bloomwood?

..and maybe you're hiding all these books on the back of your shelf behind the intellectual literature and of course your friends don't have the faintest clue about your secret passion?

Put an end to that: ).

I am looking for people as addicted to ChickLit as me... the idea is, that we chose for example one book per month, read it at home and meet monthly to discuss about it. (I'd prefer to read the English original version, of course we could speak about it in German of there are no native English speakers).

If this does appeal to YOU, I'd be glad to find some fellow addicts.