50th Follower Book Giveaway Winner: Announced

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in my 50^th follower book giveaway. The winner was chosen from the entries on the original post’s comments (see link below) via Random.org.

I’m so pleased to announce:

She will have her pick from one of 5 Classic Chick Lit books, which are all among my personal favorites.

4 Blondes by Candace Bushnell

Angels by Marian Keyes

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

 I hope you like your new book!! And thank you again to everyone who continues to follow my blog.

 I hope to have many more fun and exciting book giveaways in the future…hey, it’s not that far off from 100…..maybe a giveaway for a 2011 novel for a centennial follower contest…what do you think?!?!!?

For synopses of the books offered in this giveaway for the winner or anyone to read or just view their covers, please visit the original post:

http://lipglossandliterature.blogspot.com/2011/03/50th-follower-book-giveaway-choose-from.html

Star Book Review: Sammi Ever After by Soma Helmi

First time author, Soma Helmi, wrote a fictional home-run with her debut novel, Sammi Ever After. True to the traditional format of Chick Lit novels, Sammi Ever After has readers follow one woman on her journey in search of self. When girl meets boy and they fall in love, it seems like everything is going to be happily ever after, but all too soon, he dumps her. To make matters worse, he leaves her stranded at an airport in a foreign country, in which she has no job and no place to live. Luckily, she has one true friend in the area who lets her cry and sulk on his couch for weeks on end, that is of course, until his girlfriend decides it’s time for Sammi to move on. Finally having to face the dilemma of starting over in a new city on her own, Sammi is determined to “fake it til she makes it”.

Find out what “happily ever after” means to Sammi as she travels from Indonesia to Australia to London to the Islands of Greece and then back to London in a story full of romance, friendship and travel. Join in as Sammi seeks out her own fairytale ending and story is and along the way much hilarity and humility ensue. One of the bits I absolutely adored in this novel was at the beginning when Sammi goes to dinner with Liam at the Red Lion. As her dish of chicken dinner comes out, Sammi reaches in her bag for Sambal, a sauce she never leaves home without. I imagine it must be the Indonesian version of Tabasco sauce. Little details like that can tell you so much about a character and I thought it was such a wonderful trait to add to Sammi’s character to make her a unique and unforgettable heroine.

Native Indonesian and first-time author, Soma Helmi, may already be established as a filmmaker, art director and graphic artist but I predict it won’t be long before she adds “acclaimed women’s fiction novelist” to her ongoing list of credits.

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                                                                STAR RATING: 3 STARS