I finished a really cute, Christian chick-lit book last night, called “What a Girl Wants” by Kristin Billerbeck. This is the first in a series of books by this author (she has at least two different series that I know of), called the “Ashley Stockingdale novels”. I definitely want to read more of these and find out what happens next to Ashley. She also has a series called the “Spa Girls novels” and I may want to eventually read those too. Unfortunately, my library doesn’t have any books by this author, so I’m going to check sometime soon on their inter-library loan program and see if they can get them from a neighboring library system. If not, I might just have to break down and order them online 🙂
Anyway, this was a really cute book! Very light but very modern (think Jimmy Choo, Blackberrys and Lilly Pulitzer), about a patent attorney named Ashley Stockingdale, who lives in Silicon Valley and is an active member of her Christian singles group. She’s just turned 31 and she’s having trouble with where she is with her life, her job, her friends, her lack of chances to meet nice Christian men and a whole host of other things, including planning a wedding for her brother and his Chinese fiance, Mei Ling. This book was a really quick, very enjoyable read, and I can’t wait to get the next ones.
For the record, that makes 45 books read so far this year, for a total of 14,033 pages. Up next is a book by Anna Quindlen (I’ve never read her books) called “Blessings”. I hope it’s good!
Happy Reading!
I read this book and enjoyed it, too. Gotta love interlibrary loan – I couldn’t survive without it! Well, I could, but my bill for books each month would be horrendous!
Yes, I really enjoyed this book also. I’ve read the next 2 in the series as well and they are good too. Hope you can get a hold of them through your interlibrary loan system.
I have What a Girl Wants in my TBR along with Split Ends. Good to know WAGW is good. But I think I’m going to start Split Ends first.
Oh! this book sounds very interesting:-). You and I are alike on reading so much, but you do have me beat for this years reads:-).
Have a great day and I hope you can find more of what you are looking for in the series.
I think I remember really enjoying the first book, but then by the third book, I wasn’t so into it. So maybe if you do space them out more, you will really enjoy them more…
This book looks like something I’d really enjoy! I’m going to put it on my PBS list.
Sherry
ps They had it in stock so it is on its way!
I have about eleventy billion books to catch up on already!
This looks cute! Thanks for the recommendation. I will add it to my list!
Sounds like a fun read! I may have to try it next.
Thanks so much — got my coupons in the mail today!! Yay!
I saw this series yesterday! They did sound cute and since you liked it, I’ll have to read at least one!
Think you’ll hit 100 books this year?
I’m up to 17 books and 5,889 pages! LOL! I’ll never match you, but I’m still having fun reading! My library has 11 books by Kristin Billerbeck. I’ll have to keep her name in mind, the next time I go to the library.
Somewhere in my house, I have a paperback version of Blessings. I started it and never finished it. I’ll have to search it down!
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