The Undomestic Goddess (Sophie Kinsella)

The Undomestic Goddess was a fun, light read but it was too predictable. If you want to be entertained for a few hours of fun, enjoyable reading, then this is it. You'll know by page 20 exactly what is going to happen to Samantha and who she will spend the rest of her life with. If you are looking for something a little more intriguing that will keep you guessing, then look elsewhere. Linda C. Wright AuthorOne Clown Short One Clown Short

Aberrations From my latest Aberration Nation [...] blog post: Last week I had the opportunity to take a 12-hour road trip across Texas with my 66-year-old mother. She talked a lot about the way things used to be when she was growing up in the 1950s. She enjoyed going on about how everyone was so much more polite, well-groomed, and decent. I was surprised to hear that my grandmother required my mom and her siblings to make their beds when they stayed in hotels. Hotels! My mother graduated from high school in 1960. Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road was published in 1961. Ironically, I was getting this earful about life in the '50s just as I was finishing Yates' novel. Flying back to Philly from Dallas, I thought about the perfect picture of domestication my mother grew up with, and how she still wishes life could be that way. Truth be told, she wishes I could be that way. (Confession: I rarely make the beds in my own home much less hotels.) I also considered what I'd like to ... Read more

Sooo funny! i was manic trying to find out what was was going to happen. Really funny! A must-read!

this book is incredibly light and fun. As long as you can overlook the fact that it's completely unrealistic you can definitely settle in for an easy enjoyable read.

29 years old Samantha Sweeting is about to become the youngest lawyer ever in the prestigious firm of Carter & Spink. While she paid a high price to get there (especially where her personal life is concerned) - she believes it's all worth it. After all, a modern women doesn't need to learn how to cook if she can just call the closest take out joint (aren't Italian & Chinese cuisines really healthy?) and since the dry cleaners will sew on buttons for free, she doesn't eed to learn how to do so herself, right? But on the day her partnership is about to be announced, Samantha discovers an implicating document on her messy desk that will cost her company 5 million pounds. Instead of facing her colleagues, Samantha just leaves the office, wanders to the closest train station, and boards a random train which drops her somewhere in the country. Insulted into accepting a job as a housekeeper, she now must learn how to cook, clean, iron, and even how to operate a washing machine... When s... Read more

Excerpted from my original review blog post (http://mrsvsreviews.blogspot.com/2009/02/undomesti c-goddess.html) As any Kinsella book I was not disappointed at all with The Undomestic Goddess. The theme of the book is trying to decide what really matters in life. Samantha was so driven to reach her goal of becoming partner in her law firm that she sacrificed a lot of her personal life in order to do so. With unexpected events she finds herself in a completely new setting and is left to ponder what she really wants. It was a fun read, just as all of Kinsella's other books.

This book is great! I love this author. THe book made me laugh, and a very easy read.

Althought this book was somewhat praedcitable. It was a good book. I love Sophie's books. I would love to see this one in a theater one day. I could just imagine what it should be like the. Sophie's writting style is that way. She makes to where you could imagine (with ease) the world she has created. Even after two years of not touching the book I still have the images in my head.

I absolutely loved this book! It's my favorite book of Sophie Kinsella's besides the Shopaholic series. Samantha is funny and so lost when it comes to domestic duties that I was laughing out loud while I was reading. Her love interest was ofcourse perfect and I happened to like that some of the scenes (especially the ending) in the book played out like a movie.

This was my first read of a SK book, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. In fact, contrary to some of the other reviewers, I liked this one better than the Shopoholic books I have since listened to. (Audio book lover, here!) The main character--SS-- at least uses her mind,speaks up, and is clever-- whereas RB generally hides her problems and repeats her transgressions repeatedly and tediously.