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Men til et velgørenhedsarrangement på et hotel med nogle veninder forsvinder ringen i tumultagtige scener, da brandalarmen går. Og ikke nok med det; sin telefon mister hun også. Det er katastrofalt. Dog vender heldet en smule, da Poppy i hotellobbyen finder en anden telefon i en affaldsspand. Den skal hun bruge, så hotelpersonalet kan kontakte hende, når ringen er fundet.
Der er bare det ved det, at den "lånte" telefon tilhører forretningsmanden Sam, og han vil have den tilbage. Indtil der er nyt om ringen, forsøger Poppy dog at holde ham hen ved at agere personlig assistent, men hun har virkelig svært ved ikke at læse med på hans indkomne beskeder og blande sig i hans forretningsbeslutninger. Samtidig har hun også lige et bryllup at planlægge og en indbunden højre hånd at bortforklare for Magnus og sine svigerforældre. Kan det mon blive mere indviklet?
"En chic-lit af de helt gode."
- Femina
"Dette er endnu en velskrevet og underholdende roman fra Sophia Kinsella, som efter min mening indtager førstepladsen som chick-litt dronning sammen med Marian Keyes."
- Litteratursiden
Sophie Kinsella er mest kendt for sin populære ‘Shopaholic’-serie, men har også skrevet bestsellere som ‘Hvem er jeg?’ og ‘Pige i tyverne’. Hun bor i London med sin mand og deres fire sønner.
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I have been waiting for a new Kinsella novel for a while now and then I almost missed it. Only by accident I found out that there was a new book coming out last Thursday. I pre-ordered it a few days before it was released and had it in my mailbox on Friday. I started reading yesterday afternoon and just finished it. The second I started, I was hooked. Sophie Kinsella has an amazing talent to start in the middle of the story but in a way so that you feel you know the main character after the first few pages as if you would have known her for ages already. This could also have been a Shopaholic novel since Poppy, the main character, resembles Becky Bloomwood extremely in the way she is behaving and reacting. Perhaps that is also the reason why I loved this book so much. The story is totally independent but Poppy also ends up in weird situations that she could have avoided and manages to deal with these situations in an extremely comical and entertaining way – just like Becky. Sophie Kinsella even makes footnotes, something I usually hate, a real pleasure to read! Those where the best footnotes ever and a fantastic idea that winds through the whole story and even becomes part of the story in the end. Normally, footnotes are extremely annoying because you have to leave the main text in the middle of a sentence just to read something completely different at the bottom of the page and then you are completely lost and have to search for the place within the text where you stopped to initially look at the footnote. But in I‘ve got your number it is totally worth interrupting the main text to have a look. Another thing I noticed lately is that more and more authors use emails, chat- and text messages as part of their story. This is a really modern way of telling a story but fits into our modern world perfectly. Real life shows that in love stories modern forms of communications play a massive role – especially in times of smartphones. Kinsella adapts to this modern development and creates a great story of two people getting to know each other through emails and text messages to an extend that they know a lot of each other even though they have not met a lot in real life. Kinsella also tries to explain the female behaviour in different situations of life. While men are usually pretty straight forward and directly say what they think, many women mean something completely different when they say or write something. Women tend to find the deeper meaning in everything a man says or writes and do not get that it might be just what he said. Perhaps it would be helpful for men to read a Kinsella once in order to understand their female counterparts better… on second thoughts… they might also think we are all as crazy as all of Kinsella‘s protagonists so better not… On the other hand, the dangers and disadvantages of this form of getting to know each other become perfectly clear in this novel. A text message or an email are just what they are. They are shorter than the spoken word and they can be misinterpreted in many different ways. This can make getting to know each other even more complicated as it might already be. In the end, what I really enjoyed with this book was that it was so extremely well plotted. Every single detail is important for the story and will add up to the whole picture at the end. But when you finally think you got the whole picture with all its little details, it ends up differently again. This ending is in a way predictable but in the same way it is surprising and amusing. I am not going to give it away because I think everybody should find out themselves and I do not want to ruin it for anyone. More of my reviews can be found here: http://booksaroundtheworld.wordpress.com
Ok so I've heard good things about Sophie Kinsella. So I saw this book and I was like sounds like fun! ohmygoodness. This book made me laugh out loud. Multiple times. In public. No regrets. I loved the characters I loved their development I loved everything about this book! I'm so happy i read this and I can't wait to read more from Sophie Kinsella! Also, this review is all over the place, maybe because I've just finished it and all the feels are still fresh
Eigentlich sollte es ein netter Tag mit den Mädels werden, aber dann endet er im Chaos. Poppy Wyatt hat den wertvollen Smaragd-Verlobungsring verloren und dann wurde ihr auch noch das Handy geklaut. Sie will schon fast verzweifeln, als sie im Papierkorb ein scheinbar herrenloses Handy findet und es einfach mal beschlagnahmt, schließlich könnte der Finder des Ringes sich jederzeit melden. Doch da hat sie die Rechnung ohne den Besitzer des Telefons gemacht, denn eigentlich gehörte es der persönlichen Assistentin von Sam Roxton, die es bei ihrer Kündigung einfach mal entsorgt hat, doch dieser möchte es unbedingt wieder haben. Poppy überredet Sam dazu das Handy mit ihm zu teilen und da beginnt der ganze Schlamassel, denn Poppy ist einfach zu neugierig, um Sams Privatsphäre privat sein zu lassen. Außerdem ist sie der Meinung er könne ruhig etwas netter zu seiner Umwelt sein, sehr zum Leidwesen von Sam, der mehr als einmal bestimmt seine Hände um Poppys Hals legen würde um sie zu erwürgen. Ein typischer Kinsella Roman, mit einer überzeichneten, überspannten Hauptfigur und dem locker lässigen Typen, der alles im Griff hat, sogar die quirlige Protagonistin. Aber um ehrlich zu sein, genau das mag ich und das Buch hat mich sogar zum Lachen gebracht an einigen Stellen. Man sollte keine realistische Darstellung erwarten, sondern sich einfach in das quietschbunte Vergnügen aus Irrungen und Wirrungen begeben, sich zurücklehnen und genießen. Insbesondere da die Verbesserungen der weiblichen Hauptfigur unabsichtlich immer in einer Katastrophe für den männlichen Protagonisten enden. Genau dieses Schema habe ich schon bei der Shopaholic Reihe so geliebt. Am meisten berührt hat mich hier, dass Sam entdeckt, dass Poppy in ihrem Inneren eigentlich sehr unsicher ist und es nicht aushält wenn jemand sie nicht mag. Und das Ende ist so typisch Hollywood gewesen, dass ich einfach seufzend auf meiner Couch saß und es ein bisschen bedauert habe die beiden schon verlassen zu müssen. Chicklit at its best, kann ich nur sagen und einer der besten Romane aus der Feder von Sophie Kinsella, außerhalb der Shopaholic-Reihe, auch wenn sie ihrem Schema bis ins Letzte auch hier treu bleibt.
One of my favorite Kinsella novels, and easily the most contemporary. This book follows her hapless sweetheart formula pretty well, with the exception of high professional competency and satisfaction. (You could make the argument that the accomplished and handsome fiancé is also a departure, but he's such an tool.) Is this really a spoiler? Not sure, but I'll play it safe. I really enjoyed watching them fall in love through texts and the occasional meeting. Since there didn't seem to be any potential for romance at the beginning, they were much more straightforward with each other than they would have been otherwise, and that made it feel much more real and like a relationship with potential for success when they finally did get together. As usual, the secondary characters really fleshed things out. Anabelle and Ruby were the perfect sidekicks-- I felt like they were friends of mine. Magnus' family was wonderful to read, especially the younger brother. And I really enjoyed Poppy's relationship with Wanda, especially when she finally screwed up the courage to confront her. Like all of her books, a great beach/train read.
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Men til et velgørenhedsarrangement på et hotel med nogle veninder forsvinder ringen i tumultagtige scener, da brandalarmen går. Og ikke nok med det; sin telefon mister hun også. Det er katastrofalt. Dog vender heldet en smule, da Poppy i hotellobbyen finder en anden telefon i en affaldsspand. Den skal hun bruge, så hotelpersonalet kan kontakte hende, når ringen er fundet.
Der er bare det ved det, at den "lånte" telefon tilhører forretningsmanden Sam, og han vil have den tilbage. Indtil der er nyt om ringen, forsøger Poppy dog at holde ham hen ved at agere personlig assistent, men hun har virkelig svært ved ikke at læse med på hans indkomne beskeder og blande sig i hans forretningsbeslutninger. Samtidig har hun også lige et bryllup at planlægge og en indbunden højre hånd at bortforklare for Magnus og sine svigerforældre. Kan det mon blive mere indviklet?
"En chic-lit af de helt gode."
- Femina
"Dette er endnu en velskrevet og underholdende roman fra Sophia Kinsella, som efter min mening indtager førstepladsen som chick-litt dronning sammen med Marian Keyes."
- Litteratursiden
Sophie Kinsella er mest kendt for sin populære ‘Shopaholic’-serie, men har også skrevet bestsellere som ‘Hvem er jeg?’ og ‘Pige i tyverne’. Hun bor i London med sin mand og deres fire sønner.
Book Information
Posts
I have been waiting for a new Kinsella novel for a while now and then I almost missed it. Only by accident I found out that there was a new book coming out last Thursday. I pre-ordered it a few days before it was released and had it in my mailbox on Friday. I started reading yesterday afternoon and just finished it. The second I started, I was hooked. Sophie Kinsella has an amazing talent to start in the middle of the story but in a way so that you feel you know the main character after the first few pages as if you would have known her for ages already. This could also have been a Shopaholic novel since Poppy, the main character, resembles Becky Bloomwood extremely in the way she is behaving and reacting. Perhaps that is also the reason why I loved this book so much. The story is totally independent but Poppy also ends up in weird situations that she could have avoided and manages to deal with these situations in an extremely comical and entertaining way – just like Becky. Sophie Kinsella even makes footnotes, something I usually hate, a real pleasure to read! Those where the best footnotes ever and a fantastic idea that winds through the whole story and even becomes part of the story in the end. Normally, footnotes are extremely annoying because you have to leave the main text in the middle of a sentence just to read something completely different at the bottom of the page and then you are completely lost and have to search for the place within the text where you stopped to initially look at the footnote. But in I‘ve got your number it is totally worth interrupting the main text to have a look. Another thing I noticed lately is that more and more authors use emails, chat- and text messages as part of their story. This is a really modern way of telling a story but fits into our modern world perfectly. Real life shows that in love stories modern forms of communications play a massive role – especially in times of smartphones. Kinsella adapts to this modern development and creates a great story of two people getting to know each other through emails and text messages to an extend that they know a lot of each other even though they have not met a lot in real life. Kinsella also tries to explain the female behaviour in different situations of life. While men are usually pretty straight forward and directly say what they think, many women mean something completely different when they say or write something. Women tend to find the deeper meaning in everything a man says or writes and do not get that it might be just what he said. Perhaps it would be helpful for men to read a Kinsella once in order to understand their female counterparts better… on second thoughts… they might also think we are all as crazy as all of Kinsella‘s protagonists so better not… On the other hand, the dangers and disadvantages of this form of getting to know each other become perfectly clear in this novel. A text message or an email are just what they are. They are shorter than the spoken word and they can be misinterpreted in many different ways. This can make getting to know each other even more complicated as it might already be. In the end, what I really enjoyed with this book was that it was so extremely well plotted. Every single detail is important for the story and will add up to the whole picture at the end. But when you finally think you got the whole picture with all its little details, it ends up differently again. This ending is in a way predictable but in the same way it is surprising and amusing. I am not going to give it away because I think everybody should find out themselves and I do not want to ruin it for anyone. More of my reviews can be found here: http://booksaroundtheworld.wordpress.com
Ok so I've heard good things about Sophie Kinsella. So I saw this book and I was like sounds like fun! ohmygoodness. This book made me laugh out loud. Multiple times. In public. No regrets. I loved the characters I loved their development I loved everything about this book! I'm so happy i read this and I can't wait to read more from Sophie Kinsella! Also, this review is all over the place, maybe because I've just finished it and all the feels are still fresh
Eigentlich sollte es ein netter Tag mit den Mädels werden, aber dann endet er im Chaos. Poppy Wyatt hat den wertvollen Smaragd-Verlobungsring verloren und dann wurde ihr auch noch das Handy geklaut. Sie will schon fast verzweifeln, als sie im Papierkorb ein scheinbar herrenloses Handy findet und es einfach mal beschlagnahmt, schließlich könnte der Finder des Ringes sich jederzeit melden. Doch da hat sie die Rechnung ohne den Besitzer des Telefons gemacht, denn eigentlich gehörte es der persönlichen Assistentin von Sam Roxton, die es bei ihrer Kündigung einfach mal entsorgt hat, doch dieser möchte es unbedingt wieder haben. Poppy überredet Sam dazu das Handy mit ihm zu teilen und da beginnt der ganze Schlamassel, denn Poppy ist einfach zu neugierig, um Sams Privatsphäre privat sein zu lassen. Außerdem ist sie der Meinung er könne ruhig etwas netter zu seiner Umwelt sein, sehr zum Leidwesen von Sam, der mehr als einmal bestimmt seine Hände um Poppys Hals legen würde um sie zu erwürgen. Ein typischer Kinsella Roman, mit einer überzeichneten, überspannten Hauptfigur und dem locker lässigen Typen, der alles im Griff hat, sogar die quirlige Protagonistin. Aber um ehrlich zu sein, genau das mag ich und das Buch hat mich sogar zum Lachen gebracht an einigen Stellen. Man sollte keine realistische Darstellung erwarten, sondern sich einfach in das quietschbunte Vergnügen aus Irrungen und Wirrungen begeben, sich zurücklehnen und genießen. Insbesondere da die Verbesserungen der weiblichen Hauptfigur unabsichtlich immer in einer Katastrophe für den männlichen Protagonisten enden. Genau dieses Schema habe ich schon bei der Shopaholic Reihe so geliebt. Am meisten berührt hat mich hier, dass Sam entdeckt, dass Poppy in ihrem Inneren eigentlich sehr unsicher ist und es nicht aushält wenn jemand sie nicht mag. Und das Ende ist so typisch Hollywood gewesen, dass ich einfach seufzend auf meiner Couch saß und es ein bisschen bedauert habe die beiden schon verlassen zu müssen. Chicklit at its best, kann ich nur sagen und einer der besten Romane aus der Feder von Sophie Kinsella, außerhalb der Shopaholic-Reihe, auch wenn sie ihrem Schema bis ins Letzte auch hier treu bleibt.
One of my favorite Kinsella novels, and easily the most contemporary. This book follows her hapless sweetheart formula pretty well, with the exception of high professional competency and satisfaction. (You could make the argument that the accomplished and handsome fiancé is also a departure, but he's such an tool.) Is this really a spoiler? Not sure, but I'll play it safe. I really enjoyed watching them fall in love through texts and the occasional meeting. Since there didn't seem to be any potential for romance at the beginning, they were much more straightforward with each other than they would have been otherwise, and that made it feel much more real and like a relationship with potential for success when they finally did get together. As usual, the secondary characters really fleshed things out. Anabelle and Ruby were the perfect sidekicks-- I felt like they were friends of mine. Magnus' family was wonderful to read, especially the younger brother. And I really enjoyed Poppy's relationship with Wanda, especially when she finally screwed up the courage to confront her. Like all of her books, a great beach/train read.