Wouldn’t you like to be a high-powered lawyer at one of the most prestigious law firms around? To wear black suits all day and constantly check your e-mails every thirty seconds?
Welcome to Samantha Sweeting’s world. She’s one of the brightest lawyers at Carter Spink and never had any weekends off. She works all day and only arrives home late at night until she had to depend on her ever-caring neighbour to receive her mails and other things for her.
Samantha worked at Carter Spink for a good 7 years, giving her all. All she ever wanted was a partnership there. When she finally got it, she finds something unexpected among the piles of papers on her messy desk, which will ruin her entire career. Feeling shocked and more stressed out than ever, she leaves her office in a hurry and somehow ended up at an unfamiliar place.
When she stopped at a house to ask for a glass of water, she’s mistaken for a housekeeper arriving for her interview. Before she knew it, she made up incredible stories about her ‘housekeeping experiences’ to her would-be employers, Mr. and Mrs. Geiger. They were so impressed that they hired her immediately.
This is the first Sophie Kinsella book that I’ve read and I really enjoyed it. It is the book to read if you are looking for something light and hopelessly funny. I also cannot believe that Samantha can’t iron a shirt or even sew on a button! But, the part where she was trying to figure out how to use the washing machine was hilarious. I’ve never come across any washing machines with complicated pre-wash programs like A3-E2, H4, whatever.
Besides that, I don’t understand why she kept insisting that she likes being a housekeeper although she silently retaliates each time orders were being thrown at her. She obviously doesn’t like being bossed around. I mean, who would?
Samantha also falls in love with the gardener, Nathaniel. Initially, she was not sure of the mixed signals coming from him and was about to give up trying to get him interested. But, soon, things turned out well and Samantha started feeling happy being where she was.
While reading, I simply could not wait for the part where her employers and their obnoxious niece will find out who she really is! Samantha thought she was able to keep things a secret but things are not as easy as she thought they would be.
It’s a funny book, though I doubt there can be a real-life Samantha Sweeting somewhere!
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I finished this book last night and was a little freaked out after that. Well, I was already scared out of my wits many nights before too. I tend to be a little bit afraid and extra-imaginative when I read stories that involve ghosts or dead people coming back to haunt. Pretty creepy, if you ask me.
is a well-written one. It is the type of book that is difficult to put down. I can’t wait to get started on Rebel Angels!
Trisha McFarland is 9 years old. She tries to be cheerful all the time although her family is having problems. However, in her heart, she wished that they would stop hurting one another.
, another splendid novel by Stephen King. But still, this is a story of the determination and optimism of a little girl who lost her way in the woods.
Mary Pipher wrote this book based on her own experience helping troubled teenage girls. Some of the girls had just entered puberty while some are already far from it. Nevertheless, they all face the same trouble. 
Carrie arrived at Stanford University with high hopes and then her hopes faltered when she thought she could not fit in with university life. But after meeting her roommates, Megan and Beth, who are totally different from each other, she made up her mind to enjoy herself as much as she could.
17-year-old Kate Summerbee has never lived anywhere but aboard a stern-wheeler with her eccentric father, Ben, on the Mississippi river in New Orleans. During the Civil War, she stumbles upon an Englishman, Matthew Oliver, who is desperate to bring a few crates of unknown contents to England. When Kate and Matthew were caught being together, Ben forces Matthew to take Kate as his wife, with the drunken pastor conducting the wedding ceremony. However, Ben suffers a gunshot wound and Matthew escapes successfully to England while promising Kate that he would write to her.
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