Chicklit Marathon

Of late I have been reading a lot of chicklit, which includes:

• Hotel du Lac: Booker-prize winner for Anita Brookner. The synopsis as usual deceived me into believing that this was a wittily written romantic comedy.
  
• Lajja:Shame: This book won Ms Taslima Nasrin a dreaded fatwa more than accolades (she did win a few of them too). The book is more like a document chronicling the events in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition. I personally detested the book as it was biased and spiteful written with a one-track mind.
  
• Difficult Daughters: This supposed love-story set in the pre-Independence era between Virmati and her married Professor falls flat of one’s expectations. Manju Kapur, a Delhi Professor, apparently took five years to complete this book.
  
• Mr and Mrs Smith: Now who can forget the flick that bought two of God’s best creations together? I tried watching this flick twice but fell asleep both times. So when I found this book in my online library, I thought “What the heck! Why not?” Trust me, I wasn’t at all one bit disappointed by the escapades and accounts of the two assassins married to each other but blissfully unaware of the identity of the spouse.
  
• Life isn’t all ha ha he he: Saving the best for last. This book by Meera Syal was later made into a movie starring herself, Laila Rouss, and Ayesha Dharkar, but again the movie was a bit too boring for me to watch. But the book is hilarious. Giving the accounts of three Punjabi friends born and bred in the UK, the book is hilarious and poignant. A must-read!