Archive for August 24th, 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!

I am a huge Reese Witherspoon fan; after seeing Legally Blonde, I’ve tried to see every other film she’s starred in. One of my favourite movies of hers (of many) is the fantastic Just Like Heaven. It’s a bit of a magical romantic comedy (a bit like watching a Cecelia Ahern novel) and both Reese and Mark [Ruffalo] are fantastic in their roles and they have pretty good chemistry together too. It always makes me smile when I watch the film and it’s definitely one for the romantics out there!

Shortly after David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson (Reese Witherspoon), who asserts that the apartment is hers — and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she’s a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she’s alive. Their quest for the truth ultimately leads to love in this spectral romantic comedy.

I recently read and reviewed Tasmina Perry’s latest novel Kiss Heaven Goodbye which was absolutely brilliant, and Tasmina’s publishers got in contact with us and asked if we’d like to interview Tasmina for the site. Of course, I jumped at the chance and sent over some questions, and Tasmina has kindly answered them for me. Enjoy!

Q1. Tell us about your latest book, Kiss Heaven Goodbye.

It’s about four students holidaying on a private Caribbean island to celebrate the end of their exams. On the last night they find a dead body on the beach and each suspect the other of murder. The book follows them over twenty years as the incident influences and shapes their glamorous lives – and in the end, threatens to destroy everything they love.

Q2. In the book, there’s a bit of a murder mystery involving the 4 friends Miles, Grace, Alex and Sasha - is this something that interests you and that you like to read yourself?

Yes – I always have a mystery element to my stories which probably comes from the fact that I love thriller and crime novels so much. Harlan Coben, Agatha Christie, Michael Connelly, Nikki French are just some of my favourite authors. Before my journalism career I actually qualified as solicitor, so I guess it’s the lawyer in me that likes to solve problems. At law school my favourite part of the course was criminal law. Police procedure and the law surrounding it has always fascinated me.

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This isn’t a book that I would have especially picked out to feature on the site, but I was sent a copy to review by the publishers and it really caught my eye… it’s chick lit by a man! The press release describes the author William Nicholson as following in the footsteps of Marian Keyes and the like, so I am curious to read it and see if that claim is true! It’s out on 2nd September, and is the second in a trilogy of books, although they are apparently stand alone books too. Here’s the synopsis:

“Belinda, just fifty, wistfully reflects how much better she is at sex now than when she was young and gorgeous, and then discovers to her fury that her husband Tom is having an affair. All the Hopeful Lovers tracks the emotional rollercoaster she lives through over the seven days following her discovery. At the same time we learn what’s going on inside the mind of Tom and of his lover Meg. Weaving through this web of middle-aged lovers is a tangle of teenage ones, as Belinda’s flirty daughter Chloe tries to set up Jack with shy Alice, without realising that Jack is full of secret longings for her. These personal dramas are unfolding in December in the tense run-up to Christmas: our own familiar world, rendered pacy, funny and emotionally on the button. Every reader will find a character here who is trying to love as they have loved, and is making a mess of it as they have.”