The Secret Wish List

This latest book from Preeti Shenoy is a typical chick-lit one can breeze through. Preeti's  no-nonsense style makes it a very good read. I was very much impressed by the first half of the book, where she depicts the mundane married life, with an insensitive husband, of Diksha interspersed with her that past, which led her to an early marriage. Preeti brings out many simple and otherwise facts of a woman's life. Where it comes to Diksha's liberation in the later half of the story, everything happens like magic - aka fantasy. Super rich lover, who deeply loves her even after 18 years of their brief affair, who in fact didn't ever really stopped loving her, and a super handsome salsa instructor cum friend mark the typical dream-like nature of chick-lit. Of course not to say far-fetching and unrealistic. But that's the kind of stuff light fiction readers like. Once Diksha makes her secret wish list, it seems the fate itself conspires to make it all easy for her to make her wishes come to reality. One interesting aspect is that Diksha has critical and unsupportive parents but understanding and helpful mother-in-law. All in all, it's a good read.

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Lauren Weisberger

I'm one of those people who don't like chick-lit much. But there are at times when I appreciate a bit matured and well-written chick-lit. However much I claim to hate that genre, I must confess that I do, if only less frequently, relish certain typical ingredients of such literature. Well, I can't help it - I'm a chick myself! But mind you, I don't entertain, at any cost, the frivolous teen novels. One reason may be that I'm past that age and the other may be that I can't relate to a different culture.

Lauren's Devil Wears Prada is perhaps my first encounter with chick-lit and I really loved it. It was amazing. It's about a ambitious girl who aspires to be a writer. She enters the fashion world by grabbing the job of the personal assistant to a very demanding fashion magazine editor, which she hopes would ultimately lead her to her dream job.

I also read her Lauren's other two novels - Everyone Worth Knowing and Chasing Harry Winston. Both are in fact less interesting compared to 'Devil Wears Prada' but 'Chasing Harry Winston' is the worst.

While the backdrop of Devil Wears Prada is Fashion world, the one for Everyone Worth Knowing is hi-fi party circuit (Public Relations). I definitely recommend these two novels. They make good and enjoyable reads!