I was lucky enough to get tickets for the day of its release on the Thursday and this is a film that is just as good as the book, I love the books and the characters that Sophie Kinsella has created and have loved all of the books in the series and the fact that they have turned it in two a film was just fantastic. The audience at the cinema loved it and had a great time laughing and clapping at this great romantic comedy.
Confessions of a shopaholic follows the life of Rebecca Bloomwood a girl who loves to shop even though her credit cards are all maxed out and she has a debt collector try to catch up with her to get her to pay her outstanding bills.
Rebecca then looses her job and then gets a job with an investment magazine where she is paid to advise people on debt. There she meets the Luke Brandon her boss who she falls in ...
Advantages: Excellent characters, easy to follow story line, brilliant book Disadvantages: the ending was pretty poor
Confessions of a Shopaholic is a Modern Fiction (Chic Lit) book written by Author Sophie Kinsella - who has also written other books using the name Madeline Wickham. Kinsella is probably more well known for her Shopaholic Series of books; one of which was made into a film more recently; Confessions of a Shopaholic. In all there are 5 books in the Shopaholic Series the first of them being Confessions of a Shopaholic which was also known as Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic. To be honest I wouldn't have normally picked up this type of book however I had read a lot of Sophie Kinsella book reviews on here and they were all positive ones so when I notice the Shopaholic Series of books in the local Charity shop I decided to purchase the Shopaholic Book's and see what I thought of them.
The first book in the Shopaholic Series is ...
Advantages: the whole book Disadvantages: it came to an end
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella....
Rebecca Bloomwood is a girl who wants it all, great job, lots of money and above all, as many clothes as she can possibly lay her hands on!
Working as a writer for a financial magazine on first looks it appears Rebecca Bloomwood is a high flier but really she is just trying to blag her way through a career she feels she knows nothing about. As Rebecca finds herself spending hours daydreaming about what clothes to buy, what clothes to wear and what clothes are made by which designer her ever increasing debt continues.
Countless phones calls and letters from her bank manager are avoided and ignored but that niggling feeling just wont leave her. On some advice from her flat mate, Rebecca decides she needs to ?Cut Back? and after splurging on items needed for her more self ...