Archive for March 16th, 2010

Chick Flick Tuesday highlights the best chick flicks in the movie world as well as bringing you news on upcoming chick flick releases as well as letting you all know about which chick lit books are being made into chick flick movies!

How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days is, quite possibly, one of the best Chick Flicks ever made and is the perfect choice for our first ever Chick Flick Tuesday pick. I’ve seen the movie multiple times and I still find myself laughing out loud in parts. I also think Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey have the best chemistry I’ve seen in a movie.

Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive competing with two female co-workers for a major campaign for a diamond merchant. He cuts a deal with his competitors that the account is his if he can make a woman of their choice fall in love with him in 10 days. In comes Andie Anderson who, in turn, is writing a story on how to lose a guy in 10 days as a bet with her boss to be allowed to write more substantial stories. With a hidden agenda in each camp, will either party be able to complete their mission?

I really enjoyed Jane Beaton’s first two books in the Downey House series Class and Rules so I was thrilled when we were offered the chance of interviewing Jane. Here it is for your reading pleasure, enjoy!

1. Tell us about your second Downey House book Rules.

Rules is about Maggie Adair’s second year of teaching at Downey House boarding school- she’s come from a rough comprehensive school in Glasgow and has found the refined world of a girl’s boarding school a very steel learning curve. She has to decide whether to follow her head or her heart; to return to Glasgow to do her bit for deprived kids, and marry her childhood sweetheart Stan, or to stay in Cornwall and see if she has a chance of being with the quirky English teacher at the local boy’s school, David MacDonald.

We also meet the head teacher, Dr Deveral, four second year pupils at Plantagenet House- Simone, the scholarship girl; Fliss, the unhappy teen, Alice, who is full of confidence and mischief, and new girl Zelda, an American whose father is serving in the local army base. She stirs things up a bit!

2. What can you tell us about the third book in the series? Does it have a title yet?

The third book is called Lessons, the fourth Tests. I can’t say TOO much about them yet I’m afraid!

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