Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something...
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Sep 18, 2010
indri
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”Kalau kau tinggal di suatu tempat, tidak peduli berapa lama, kau perlu melibatkan diri dengannya. Kalau tidak, kau tidak benar-benar menjalani hidupmu. Hanya berfungsi.”h.334.
Twenties girl. Gadis 20-an. Gadis dari tahun 1920 bernama Sadie Lancester. Selalu berusia 20 tahun. Karena dia tidak fana. Dia hantu. Arwah penasaran yang tidak mau dikubur karena belum menemukan kalung kesayangannya.
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”Kalau kau tinggal di suatu tempat, tidak peduli berapa lama, kau perlu melibatkan diri dengannya. Kalau tidak, kau tidak benar-benar menjalani hidupmu. Hanya berfungsi.”h.334.
Twenties girl. Gadis 20-an. Gadis dari tahun 1920 bernama Sadie Lancester. Selalu berusia 20 tahun. Karena dia tidak fana. Dia hantu. Arwah penasaran yang tidak mau dikubur karena belum menemukan kalung kesayangannya.
Sadie menghantui cucu buyutnya, Lara, untuk mencari kalungnya. More...
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Aug 10, 2010
Becca
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I had to add a shelf to categorize this book. I got to chapter six before I decided to return it to the library. There were two things I couldn't get past: 1)The character of the ghost, Sadie Lancaster. She was too obnoxious. And I realize the point of the character was to annoy the protagonist into action, but I didn't think I could handle one more scene where she harrassed the poor, broken, 27-year-old heroine of which I can very closely relate. Which brings me to my second problem: 2)The main
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Jan 12, 2012
Laurel
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Sophie Kinsella is a guilty pleasure of mine. This book made for a fun and much needed escape for me today.
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Jun 20, 2010
Jacqueline
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I have yet to meet a Sophie Kinsella novel that I don't like. Kinsella remains true to her lighthearted, hilarious style with Twenties Girl and I, for one, am grateful for it.
Lara is comparable to the rest of Kinsella's heroines: sweet, idealistic, and a bit ditzy (but not so much that you end up hating her). Of course the plot is rather far-fetched, but that's what you should expect and want when picking up a Kinsella book. It just makes the story that much more enjoyable.
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Lara is comparable to the rest of Kinsella's heroines: sweet, idealistic, and a bit ditzy (but not so much that you end up hating her). Of course the plot is rather far-fetched, but that's what you should expect and want when picking up a Kinsella book. It just makes the story that much more enjoyable.
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Dec 05, 2009
Cleo
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This was a FUN read. If you like romatic comedy and light ghost stories and light myster it is for you in spades. British author and takes place in London - the perspective on the American boyfriend is interesting. Starts slow but accelerates to the end. Sorry when you turn the last page.
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Jun 01, 2011
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A thoroughly enjoyable read as we accompany Lara, a girl recently dumped by her boyfriend, stranded by her friend in a job she has no experience with, and her great aunts 23 year old ghost haunting her in her quest to get her boyfriend back, make her job work and find her aunts missing necklace. There are two options for Lara, either to admit she has finally lost control of her mind and shy away, or she could enjoy the situation she finds herself in and take full advantage of it.
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Nov 22, 2011
marnelle angela
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I loved this book.
At first I thought that this is going to be just another Sophie Kinsella book, full of chicklit drama, but it sort of surprised me.
There are several Sophie Kinsella trademarks I have noticed in this book:
1. Lara Lington. The heroines in the her books look like they're always helpless at first, they have this problems in their works and in their relationships. But then at the end, these heroines will be very lucky and make a breakthrough in t More...
At first I thought that this is going to be just another Sophie Kinsella book, full of chicklit drama, but it sort of surprised me.
There are several Sophie Kinsella trademarks I have noticed in this book:
1. Lara Lington. The heroines in the her books look like they're always helpless at first, they have this problems in their works and in their relationships. But then at the end, these heroines will be very lucky and make a breakthrough in t More...
Jun 11, 2010
Smita
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When you say Sophie Kinsella the words that come to my mind are breezy read, adorable & characters which you can relate with, hilarious situations & value for money. Thankfully she doesn’t disappoint us even this time.
When I had first read about the book I knew that she can not go wrong this time as well. Lara, 20 something is the girl of the present generation. Her life is in shambles because her partner in her startup business has eloped to Goa leaving the business in lurch. She ha More...
When I had first read about the book I knew that she can not go wrong this time as well. Lara, 20 something is the girl of the present generation. Her life is in shambles because her partner in her startup business has eloped to Goa leaving the business in lurch. She ha More...
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Dec 09, 2009
Leah
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Lara Lington thinks of herself as a fairly hip twenties girl, living in the 21st century. But the last thing she expects at her Great Aunt Sadie’s funeral is for Sadie herself to appear and demand for the whole thing to be stopped. Lara thinks she’s going mad: how on Earth can she hear and see a dead person? It turns out Great Aunt Sadie is actually a ghost and a ghost with a mission: to track down her missing Dragonfly necklace. Sadie eventually manages to convince Lara to help look for the nec
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Oct 05, 2009
Kathryn
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Sophie Kinsella made me feel like I was visiting with a best friend every time I went on another zany, warmhearted adventure with Becky Bloomwood--and Kinsella herself seemed quite a kindred spirit when my sister and I attended her book talk for "Shopaholic and Baby" a few years ago--so I suppose I should not be surprised that Kinsella could make me care so much about the twenty-three year old Flapper ghost of a one-hundred-and-five year old lady who died lonely and came back to "
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Oct 31, 2009
Chantale
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I didn't enjoy the start of the book. However, it picked up and I enjoyed the humour shared between Great Aunt Sadie and Lara.
Lara is your clueless chick lit character who becomes much too obsessed with a man not interested in her. When will chick lit learn to create strong female characters who are not psychotic? It makes me more tired of the genre every time I pick up one of these books.
Lara is your clueless chick lit character who becomes much too obsessed with a man not interested in her. When will chick lit learn to create strong female characters who are not psychotic? It makes me more tired of the genre every time I pick up one of these books.
Feb 18, 2012
Ishrat Azad
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personally, when i read the blurb, i thought, 'WTH', but i thought, fine, might as well give it a try and i'm so glad i did, because i absolutely loved it!
fair enough, even at the beginning i dreaded the coming of a ghost and the fact that she was so hung up over Josh, but as the story carried on, i got more hooked into it and couldn't put it down.
it had such a variety of genres and themes in it, amazing. it wasn't the typical girl falls in love with guy and vice versa. person More...
fair enough, even at the beginning i dreaded the coming of a ghost and the fact that she was so hung up over Josh, but as the story carried on, i got more hooked into it and couldn't put it down.
it had such a variety of genres and themes in it, amazing. it wasn't the typical girl falls in love with guy and vice versa. person More...
Jan 31, 2012
Karen
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In Twenties Girl, Kinsella gives us Lara Lington, another chick-lit heroine who is witty and resourceful and yet allows herself to be pushed into one humiliating and ludicrous situation after another. In a lesser writer’s hands, this formula would be tiresome and cringe-inducing, but Kinsella (usually) makes it work. Most of Lara’s antics are fueled by the book’s other main character, the feisty ghost of her recently deceased great-aunt Sadie, who is obsessed with dancing, 1920s culture, and fin
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Jan 16, 2012
Jolzyn
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This is the latest book by Sophie Kinsella and it tells the story of Lara who started to hear and see her dead grand auntie, Sadie at her funeral. Lara, a person who hold on stubbornly to what she thinks is right, found her life becomes chaotic with the existence of her 23 years old grand auntie (who has died at the age of 105).
Sadie who loves her dragonfly necklace found herself unable to move on to her afterlife without her beloved necklace seek Lara's help to find it. With her fla More...
Sadie who loves her dragonfly necklace found herself unable to move on to her afterlife without her beloved necklace seek Lara's help to find it. With her fla More...
Jan 06, 2012
Jennifer
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I swear that Kinsella/Wickham just keeps rewriting her previous novels! Twenties Girl features the same ditzy but lovable heroine and the same stoic but kind love interest that we have seen in many other Kinsella novels. To me, Lara could just as easy be Becky Bloomwood from the Shopaholic series, which would make sense because Ed is pretty much Luke as well. I do not remember the name of the female lead in Undomestic Goddess, but she is also very similar to Lara/Becky. Even the family membe
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Jan 05, 2012
Kat
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Now upon reading the jacket of this book I was a little concerned. Sophie Kinsella's style of writing does not normally involve ghosts. To say I was a little sceptical was an understatement!The first 5 chapters of the book I spent telling myself that I would give the book a fair chance. By chapter 6 I needn't have bothered as I flowed through the book in no time and actually found myself getting carried along with the story.
We meet Lara who to be truthful is a bit of a flake. She is pi More...
We meet Lara who to be truthful is a bit of a flake. She is pi More...
Dec 26, 2011
Carol
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Eu simplesmente amei esse livro! Já tinha lido "Os delírios de Becky Bloom" da Sophie Kinsella. Então eu fui na livraria comprar alguns livros pra ler durante as férias e tinham dois que estavam um em cima do outro: O chá de bebê de Becky Bloom e Menina de Vinte. No impulso, peguei um deles. E eu tinha certeza que havia pego "O chá de bebê de Becky Bloom". Passaram uns três dias e eu peguei o livro para ler. Foi então que eu percebi que eu havia comprado "Menina de Vinte
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Oct 15, 2011
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Sep 20, 2011
Katharine
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As a recent fan of Kinsella, I seem to keep uncovering new books of hers that I never knew existed. Twenties Girl is one of those books. This is a heart-warming and funny story about a young girl who attends the funeral of her great-aunt Sadie, whom no one really liked. While sitting by herself, Lara suddenly finds herself talking to a young, beautiful woman, who looks suspiciously like her great-aunt did when she was in her 20s, who is confused about why she is at this solemn occasion. Lara
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Aug 24, 2011
Kevin
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Twenties Girl was a lot of fun! It was pretty much what I expected from Sophie Kinsella, of course, with the variation being a chick-lit ghost story!
It opens with 29 year old Lara getting dressed, while her parents wait, to go to the funeral of great-aunt Sadie, who she has no memory of having ever met or even heard of before, but has just passed away at the old age of 105, after a stroke years before and a few decades in a nursing home.
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It opens with 29 year old Lara getting dressed, while her parents wait, to go to the funeral of great-aunt Sadie, who she has no memory of having ever met or even heard of before, but has just passed away at the old age of 105, after a stroke years before and a few decades in a nursing home.
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Aug 06, 2011
Chrissy♥Dev
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It all starts when Lara goes to here great-aunts funeral, there a ghost named Sadie starts talking to her and persuades her to help in her quest to search for her necklace. That was the essential motive until her great aunt Sadie deciededs shes runnign the show. I loved the book I truly felt the emotion that each character was feeling and didn't know what to expect. Lara must not only find the necklace but deal with a crazy self absobed ghost bothering her. Lara isn't in the best place in her l
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Jul 29, 2011
Brina
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Die 27-jährige Lara könnte als Firmenbesitzerin eigentlich restlos zufrieden sein, aber zu ihrem großen Glück fehlt ihre große Liebe Josh, der sie erst kürzlich verlassen hat.
Als sie dann auch noch auf die Bestattung ihrer verstorbenen Großtante erscheinen soll, die sie nicht einmal gekannt hat, erreicht ihre Laune den Nullpunkt.
Schnell merkt Lara, dass dies keine gewöhnliche Bestattung ist, denn keiner der Anwesenden trauert wirklich um die 105-jährige Sadie und eine unbekannte Stimme More...
Als sie dann auch noch auf die Bestattung ihrer verstorbenen Großtante erscheinen soll, die sie nicht einmal gekannt hat, erreicht ihre Laune den Nullpunkt.
Schnell merkt Lara, dass dies keine gewöhnliche Bestattung ist, denn keiner der Anwesenden trauert wirklich um die 105-jährige Sadie und eine unbekannte Stimme More...
Jul 29, 2011
Brina
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Die 27-jährige Lara könnte als Firmenbesitzerin eigentlich restlos zufrieden sein, aber zu ihrem großen Glück fehlt ihre große Liebe Josh, der sie erst kürzlich verlassen hat.
Als sie dann auch noch auf die Bestattung ihrer verstorbenen Großtante erscheinen soll, die sie nicht einmal gekannt hat, erreicht ihre Laune den Nullpunkt.
Schnell merkt Lara, dass dies keine gewöhnliche Bestattung ist, denn keiner der Anwesenden trauert wirklich um die 105-jährige Sadie und eine unbekannte Stimme More...
Als sie dann auch noch auf die Bestattung ihrer verstorbenen Großtante erscheinen soll, die sie nicht einmal gekannt hat, erreicht ihre Laune den Nullpunkt.
Schnell merkt Lara, dass dies keine gewöhnliche Bestattung ist, denn keiner der Anwesenden trauert wirklich um die 105-jährige Sadie und eine unbekannte Stimme More...
Jul 29, 2011
Brina
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Die 27-jährige Lara könnte als Firmenbesitzerin eigentlich restlos zufrieden sein, aber zu ihrem großen Glück fehlt ihre große Liebe Josh, der sie erst kürzlich verlassen hat.
Als sie dann auch noch auf die Bestattung ihrer verstorbenen Großtante erscheinen soll, die sie nicht einmal gekannt hat, erreicht ihre Laune den Nullpunkt.
Schnell merkt Lara, dass dies keine gewöhnliche Bestattung ist, denn keiner der Anwesenden trauert wirklich um die 105-jährige Sadie und eine unbekannte Stimme More...
Als sie dann auch noch auf die Bestattung ihrer verstorbenen Großtante erscheinen soll, die sie nicht einmal gekannt hat, erreicht ihre Laune den Nullpunkt.
Schnell merkt Lara, dass dies keine gewöhnliche Bestattung ist, denn keiner der Anwesenden trauert wirklich um die 105-jährige Sadie und eine unbekannte Stimme More...
Jul 25, 2011
Kim
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If this was my first Sophie Kinsella book, I would have given it 4 stars, but since I've read everything she's written, her "formula" has gotten a bit predictable. A young 20-something woman who is floundering in her life and her career, meets a handsome, rich, successful man who she initially isn't attracted to and who eventually helps set her life on the right path (and of course, ends up with in the end). There will be a bump in the road that briefly tears them apart, but they rea
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Jul 24, 2011
Sana
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I started reading Twenties Girl around the middle of 2010 and stopped after reading about the first hundred pages or so. Yes, I had a one teeny tiny bit of a problem with the book for including an American character in it. It's takes away the special feeling that I especially want to associate with Can You Keep a Secret? I mean Sophie Kinsella could have chosen to include someone from any other country be it Italian or French, even. (Not that I have anything against French guys, mind you).
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Jul 22, 2011
Rebecca
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I kind of expected a little more fluff from Kinsella's latest. Not that this wasn't full of it, but it wasn't typical. This was like a chick-lit ghost story, so a little different then usual. Girl's great aunt dies but before she is buried, comes back to haunt Girl to try and get a necklace back. The ghost of the aunt is when she was in her 20's living in the 1920's (hence title). Only the Girl can see the ghost, but if the ghost yells loud enough, she can make anyone do anything she wants. Whil
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Jul 16, 2011
AJ
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I just finished reading the last Sophie Kinsella's Twenties Girl. Unlike the previous book (Secrets of a Shoe Addict), I read this one in two weeks. It really captured my attention right at the beginning.
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At first, when I read the synopsis, I was not quite sure I was going to like that kind of ghostly story, but to my surprise, I found it pretty amusing and dramatic at the same time.
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At first, when I read the synopsis, I was not quite sure I was going to like that kind of ghostly story, but to my surprise, I found it pretty amusing and dramatic at the same time.
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Kinsella is the bestselling author of the Confessions of a Shopaholic and she lives in Englan More...
May 30, 2011
Rea
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My favourite books are chick-lit and I think that is why Sophie Kinsella is right up there with my list of favourite authors. I have previously read all of Sophie Kinsella's books so there was no way I was going to walk over this one. I was slightly hesitant to read this one I have to admit after I was told it was a kind of ghost story book which I couldn't imagine Sophie Kinsella writing about as it is completely different to her previous work.
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Apr 21, 2011
Marie
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Sophie Kinsella’s books have been on my TBR pile for a long time but last September when I moved to London (I have never been here before), I thought that it would be nice to read a local author. I started with the Shopaholic Series (I watched the movie but, as usual, the books is so much better) and immediately fell in love with her stories. She makes me feel so related to her heroines that Sophie has become one of my favorite authors.
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