New Chick Lit Book Club September Meetup

The September meet-up has been scheduled for MONDAY, September 14th. (They were not available on Tuesdays until September 29th and I thought six weeks was too long. I hope Monday works for everyone. The good news is that the bar has ten cent wings on Monday for all you wing lovers...)

The polls are closed and the winner is The Cinderella Pact by Sarah Strohmeyer. (Since Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella and A Total Waste of Makeup by Kim Gruenenfelder also received a few votes, we can include them in the poll for October if you want. Please also bring your suggestions for future votes!)

Description of book:

Nola Devlin has a secret identity. By day she is an overweight, frumpy, and overlooked editor at Sass! (the "celebrity magazine with an edge!"), but by night she slips behind her keyboard and into her alter-ego: Belinda Apple. Belinda is thin, gorgeous, British and the author of a trendy advice column- she is, in effect, the latest Carrie Bradshaw. Not even Nola's two best friends or her self-absorbed sister (who worships Belinda as the "sister she never had") know her secret.
When "Belinda" jots off a column about how easy it is to lose weight, Nola is shocked when her best friends take her own lies to heart and urge her to follow Belinda's weight loss program. Since Nola can't reveal herself as the real Belinda Apple, she bites the bullet and joins her friends in making the "Cinderella Pact"- a last ditch attempt to lose weight (again!) and transform their lives for good.
But as the pounds come off, things don't turn out the way the three friends expect. Their journey of self-discovery leads to the return of an old love and the unmasking of new problems. Meanwhile, Nola finds herself torn between two different men as she stomps out fires caused by her deception as Belinda Apple and falls in love with the man who just might be her prince - or the rat in coachman's clothing.

Hope to see you there!!