Confession of A Chic Lit Freakaholic

Can you keep a secret?

Promise that you won't tell?

I have just finished reading 'Confession of A Shopaholic'.

For those who still having your eyebrow twisted trying to figure out why the hell this is such a secret, let me just explain. It is like an unwritten rule of all the self acclaimed Chic Lit fan that this book should be one of the top must read book list. Hence, I have been nodding and agreeing with other chic lit fans when they talk about this book, never to expose the real truth.

Even when I finally bought this book, I had to tell people that I lost my copy and needed to refresh my memory before the movie comes out. Not that they asked, but it's like you know.. one of those things you just feel the need to justify.

So what do I think of this book? 5 years ago if I did pick up this book and read it, I would probably just rave about it uncontrollably! But today, I am lil bit more in touch with reality. Though the plot and even some of scenes of impromptu buying- or that part when she just shoved the credit bills and hid it, seemed to be a lil too familiar, in the real world- Becca is married with 2 kids, enemplyed husband and desperately trying to pay her debts while still having this obsession with shopping! In reality, there is no coincidental scene of working at a tv station or the 15th most eligible and richest bachelor swooping my ass of this misery.

But for that whole 3 days of reading the book, I did feel happy. True joy of knowing how this is normal and there are thousand of people like me out there. And for that one moment, I did wish that someone will come and save me. And for that one moment, I did believe it will all be better.