Shopaholic Talk

 I just finished reading Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (my January book of the month) and so, now, I get the movie - Confessions of a Shopaholic.  I don't get it per se..I mean, I see why the movie was as it was.  I had many qualms when I first watched it, based on my memory of the book.  I couldn't believe Sophie Kinsella allowed them to make all those changes.  But now I see that the movie was actually a combination of these two books.  The third book even.  Suze and Tarquin's wedding is actually from Shopaholic Ties the Knot - the third book in the series.

I still have my issues with the movie.  Enjoyable and easy to watch as it was and as much as I think that Isla Fisher is cute as a button - I thought they made Becky too ditsy, too desperate and over the top in the movie.  Hugh Dancy is definitely not my Luke.  From the books, I imagined Luke to be this classy, slick, tall, dark and handsome fellow with neat hair.  My Luke would probably have been someone like Julian McMahon or Josh Duhamel or some brit like Jonathan Rhys Meyer.  Hugh Dancy's Luke is a bit short for my liking and the hair..couldn't they have given him a better haircut! At least they kept him as British, where the whole movie and other characters were Americanized.  The first time Becky and Luke hooked up in the book got my heart racing more than those kissing scenes in the movie did!

I just realised that the opening line in the three books are the same.  It's 'OK. Don't panic.'  A definite hook - first time readers are going to read this and think.. Oh, what happened?  Those who already read the first book are going to think - God, what's she gone and done now!  I just checked and the opening line for the forth book is 'OK. I can do this.' So we who are already hooked in finally think, At last, she's got something right!  Hebat. I wish I was Sophie Kinsella.