After the Rice, Consider Lily & Full of Grace

I just finished 3 books that were rather different from each other and I found them all rather enjoyable.

After the Rice is the story of a newly married couple who have all sorts of newly married issues - in-laws being the primary one.  The other issue they are faced with is an unplanned pregnancy.  Neither of the two ever wanted to have children so now they must figure out what they are going to do.  (mtlm - not to give away too much but you would not like this one).

Consider Lily is churchy chick-lit.  Really I have to start reading the back more carefully.  Interestingly I didn't find this one as annoying as I found the last one I accidentally found myself reading.  Lily is the daughter of a couple who runs an extremely high end retail establishment in San Francisco.  She also writes a blog.  She talks about her trials and tribulations of dating and trying to fit in.  I liked it.  The churchy bits were more along the lines of going to youth group and just saying they were Christians.  There were no whole speeches about "God's Plan" and all that so I appreciated that fact.  I don't mind characters who go to church and believe in something, I just don't like it proselytized.  In fact, I found this one rather refreshing in that she wasn't falling into bed with the guy 10 minutes after meeting him. 

Full of Grace is drama chick-lit.  The main character is from an Italian Catholic family and she is living in sin with her boyfriend who is Irish and not Catholic and worse a stem cell researcher.  It is about her family and her relationship with them and with her boyfriend.  The only tiny part that bugged me was her assumption that her family wouldn't recognize him and so she never brought him to family dinners.  I suppose they were the type that one had to be invited but she never just said "I'm bringing him, cope."  Otherwise I enjoyed it, even though it is a bit churchy.  Tears did well up in my eyes in a couple of places.  All in all a good read.

Comments

[KtP]

Hi. Remember me? I'm the lackey who never once read any of the books here.

Anyway, my workout girl friend from online is a HUGE reader and recommended "Jemima J" (I know I'm butchering the spelling) and "Conversations with a Fat Chick."

[Peeved Michelle]

JEMIMA J, while enjoyable in the plot department, was a little shitty in that it contained a fat chick who lost weight (in a terrifyingly unbelievable manner) for a man. I haven't read CONVERSATIONS WITH A FAT CHICK yet, but it is on my Amazon wish list.

[mtlm]

Thanks for the recommendations. :)