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What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

December 20, 2025 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

What Does It Feel Like? is Sophie Kinsella’s swan song: her deeply personal reckoning with a terminal stage-4 glioblastoma diagnosis, which tragically took her life recently. I grew up inhaling the Shopaholic series – stories about a woman who believed the right blue silk scarf could change everything. On the surface, those books are light and effervescent, but beneath them runs a thread of genuine terror that anyone who has ever let a credit card spiral out of control will recognise. Kinsella wrote flawed but […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Sophie Kinsella

Caesar's Wife's CBR17 Review No:23 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Sophie Kinsella ·
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What Does it Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

What Does it Feel Like by Sophie Kinsella

February 14, 2025 by Classic Leave a Comment

This was a perfectly lovely novella that Kinsella published. Based on her true life events, this story follows a writer named Eve that hits it big and then wakes up one day in the hospital and finds out that a huge malignant tumor was removed from her brain. “What Does It Feel Like?” follows her on her journey. I have to say that this whole book made me recall what my family went through when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Sophie Kinsella, What Does it Feel Like?

Classic's CBR17 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Sophie Kinsella, What Does it Feel Like? ·
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Christmas Shopaholic

Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

August 23, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

August 23, 2022 review: I swear, I do love Christmas romance books. No idea why. Probably all of those Hallmark movies or something. But this re-read was pretty dry and I just got through it quickly. I have been reading this series since I was in my 20s and Becky is still acting like a whole ass mess. She stopped being “twee” for me several books ago. I just happened to remember I had this one and decided to read it for a book bingo […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Shopaholic #9, Sophie Kinsella

Classic's CBR14 Review No:176 · Genres: Romance · Tags: cbr14bingo, Shopaholic #9, Sophie Kinsella ·
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Twenties Girl

Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

August 23, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

August 23, 2022 review: I only did this re-read since it fit a bingo book category. I really didn’t like it the first time I read it, and I liked it even less on my second read through as well. I think it just was all over the place and the “romance” was not even central to the story. I just found the main hero to be another blander version of the character of Luke Brandon from the “Shopaholic” series.  Original review: Updated: December 2019: […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Sophie Kinsella

Classic's CBR14 Review No:175 · Genres: Romance · Tags: cbr14bingo, Sophie Kinsella ·
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The Party Crasher

The Party Crasher by Sophie Kinsella

July 1, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

Just a so-so Kinsella book. FYI, this is not a romance, this is women’s fiction. The main character (Effie) story is focused on her family and those relationships. There is an ex (isn’t there always?) but that whole thing is not the most important part of the book. And honestly the why behind the break up was so damn dumb I refuse to award any points for shoehorning this into this book. The flow of this one was pretty awful. Effie who is almost 30 […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Sophie Kinsella

Classic's CBR14 Review No:130 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Sophie Kinsella ·
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Twenties Girl

Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

December 26, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Updated: December 2019: So, I am a dumb ass. I thought I liked this book when I first read it. Since I was in a reading slump I grabbed this and a few other books to re-read during Christmas Day. Ugh. This is still goofy and irritating for all of the reasons I said below. However, having wine and cheese while reading this made the book much more palatable.    I have always been fascinated by the 20s. You had the so-called Jazz Age, women fighting […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

Classic's CBR11 Review No:329 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl ·
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