Showing posts with label chick lit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chick lit. Show all posts

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Product Review Club: Journey to the Darkside

We have another freebie coming your way! 2 lucky members of the Product Review Club will receive a copy of Journey to the Darkside: Supermom Goes Home by Kathy Buckworth in exchange for their feedback on ChickAdvisor.





"Congratulations! You've got it all! But what happens when you decide you don't want it?

In Journey to the Darkside, popular humorist and parenting writer Kathy Buckworth takes a good, hard look at the "culture shock" that results when high-powered corporate moms decide to hang up their briefcases and venture into the uncharted waters of the stay-at-home world.

Think you're a pro at dealing with office politics? Wait until you attend your first PTA meeting. Confident in your ability to make sound wardrobe choices? Don't listen too closely to what the other stay-at-home moms are saying at the park. Expect your husband to help out when you're feeling under the weather? Ha!

Part guidebook, part warning, Journey to the Darkside is insightful, hilarious, and brutally honest. It will have moms (stay-at-home or otherwise) laughing out loud--which is a good thing, because otherwise, they might have to cry.

Kathy Buckworth is the author of The Secret Life of SuperMom, and SuperMom: A Celebration of All You Do. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including Today's Parent, City Parent, and Canadian living. She is a frequent television and radio talk show guest (appearing on Breakfast Television, Yummy Mummy, The Mom Show and as a featured expert on Life Network's Birth Days). She lives in Mississauga, Ontario, with her husband and four children."

This offer will be exclusively for our mommy members. Wondering why? Sometimes our freebies are geared towards a specific audience; read the review already posted on ChickAdvisor!

If you are not already part of our Product Review Club, read this forum thread for details. We have many freebies. All we ask in return is that you review the item within 2 weeks from when you receive it!

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

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Friday, August 17, 2007

Product Review Club: Six Weeks to Toxic

"Women break up with men all the time. But there are no rules for breaking up with your best friend…"

Here's the latest offering for our Product Review Club.

"Smart, savvy and sexy, Six Weeks to Toxic is Louisa McCormack’s wildly witty debut novel that delves into the complex world of female friendships gone awry.

Meet Bess: a cute and quirky sound artist for feature films with a punk-rock past and a penchant for pop philosophy. Meet Maxine: a sleek and strapping freelance journalist who’s privileged to the point of confusion. Both women work in Hollywood North, and the two have been best friends for sixteen years.

Cut to New Year’s Day, 2000, where the story opens with a headache and a hangover. Bess finds herself facing thirty-five, single, struggling to make ends meet and stuck with a bad case of the existential blues. Meanwhile, Maxi has just landed a new job, a new home and a hot new man. But the tables turn when Maxi’s relationship begins to sour and Bess finds happiness in all the right places. The two begin to drift, and by Valentine’s Day, 2000, sixteen years of friendship turns into six weeks of toxic.

Set in the hip urban milieu of well-connected thirty-somethings, Six Weeks to Toxic is a biting, honest and wildly funny look at the complexity of female friendships.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the novel will be donated to CODE, a Canadian charitable organization that has been promoting education and literacy in the developing world for over forty years.

Louisa McCormack writes regularly for FLARE and FASHION. She was a host of “The Chatroom” on TalkTV and has also contributed to CBC Newsworld and CBC Radio One. McCormack was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario."

Looks like a fun read! We have a couple of copies to give away. If you're in the Product Review Club and would like to review this book, email us.

Reviewers should be in their 20s or 30s, love ChickLit, and agree to review it within 2 weeks of receiving it.

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