New Movie: I Don't Know How She Does It

I enjoy when chick lit books are turned into movies. I enjoy seeing how everyone else views the characters and storyline. I also like to see whether the book has been portrayed in a smiliar way to how I thought it would be. Many times the novel is better than the film version, however occasionally a great film version that comes along that I really enjoy.

The latest chick lit novel to be turned into a movie is I Don't Know How She Does It, based on the novel by Alison Pearson. Starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan I Don't Know How She Does It is a comedy centering around Kate Reddy who has to balance her day job working at a finacial management firm with homelife of her husband and two children. Kate is constantly trying to figure out this never ending balancing act, which her best friend and working mother Alison manages on a daily basis and her child phobic junior assitant Morno plans to avoid. Kate wins a new account at work which means she must travel to New York and her husband, Richard, also wins a new job, which means that they are both spreading themselves even thinner than before. Kate's charming new business associate, Jack, doesn't exactly help matters, as he increasingly becomes a source of temptation. Will Kate's marriage survive or will she burn out?

I Dont Know How She Does It is released today (16th September 2011) and I plan on seeing this movie and letting you guys know what I think.

Has anyone been to see the movie yet? Are you excited about it? Leave me a comment and let me know!

One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell to be made into a tv series?

Have you read the novel 'One Fifth Avenue' by Candace Bushenll? Well if not don't panic because you will soon be seeing the story unfold on your tv screens. The novel follows Cassie Bingham, who after her husbands decides he does not want to be with her anymore, moves back to her old apartment to reasses her life.

According to The Hollywood Reporter 'One Fifth Avenue' will be made into a tv series after being snapped up by the network ABC. It has also been reported that Josh Safran, who executive produces Gossip Girl will be on board to pen the seies along with Grey's Anatmony Producer Mark Gordon.

This is all exciting news, but the project is still very young so don't be expecting to see 'One Fifth Avenue' on your screens for a while yet. Of course the big question on everyones lips will be who will star in the series.

Let me know what you think and if you are looking forward to this project. This could just be all our answers to a replacement for Sex And The City.

Beth Harbison: An Interview

Beth Harbison, author of Always Something There To Remind and Shoe Addicts Anonymous (to name just a few) was kind enough to join us on Chick Litaholic this week to answer all our questions. I recently reviewed her latest novel Always There To Remind Me: here

1. What was your inspiration for Always Something There To Remind Me?

It's about a woman who finds herself chewing and chewing on the ancient and unresolved remains of her first love relationship, to the point where it distracts her present life until she finds a way to resolve it.
It was inspired by me finding myself chewing and chewing on the ancient and unresolved remains of my first love relationship. Seriously. Had a dream about my first love, emailed him, which I've done periodically over the years, and expected to just feel weird for a few days and then get over it, as usual. But somehow this time we immediately starting tangling over who was the bigger jerk when we broke up and, at long last, the real reasons behind the break-up and the real feelings in the aftershocks. I went into the conversation half wondering if I'd ever really mattered to him. Now I know all the answers I needed to know, but it took months of back and forth. While I was in that process, I stopped the book I was writing and switched to this one, thinking I could put the crazy, angsty energy to good use. It nearly gave me a nervous breakdown. Truly.

2.  Wow it must have been a crazy time. You definatly got me and I'm sure many other readers thinking about past relationships! How has your writing changed from your first novel to now?

I don't know. It's gotten crisper, faster to the point, fewer superflous details, I think. Early efforts at novel writing tend to be pretty masterbatory - this is what I think, and this is how I think it and blah blah blah. That said, I think some of my old Silhouette romances contain some of my best writing.

3. What is your biggest challenge when it comes to writing?

Doing it. Every day.

4. I love all of your novels! Which of the novels you have written is your favourite?

ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE TO REMIND ME, and a Silhouette Special Edition called DRIVE ME WILD (another love story about coming home to the boy you never quite stopped thinking about....hmm.....I sense a theme).

5. A great theme at that. If you were sent to a deserted island and could only take three books with you, what would they be?

1. A SHORT HISTORY OF EVERYTHING by Bill Bryson - I keep meaning to read it but never feel I have time

2. THE SHELL SEEKERS by Rosamunde Pilcher, an all-time favorite 

 3. HOW TO GET OFF A DESERTED ISLAND by anyone but Gilligan, Skipper, The Professor, the Howells, Ginger or Maryann.

6. When your not writng what do you enjoy doing to relax?

Sitting poolside under a palm tree in Disney World, reading.

7. Sounds like my idea of heaven! If you weren’t writing novels what job do you think you would be doing now?

I'd work at Sephora. No, I'd OWN Sephora. Go big or go home, right?

8. Love your ambition. One of your novels, Shoe Addicts Anonymous is being made into a movie - can you tell us any news about it?

Everything is moving along at just about the pace everyone expected -- apparently movie-making takes forever and there are a million details that need attention along the way, but Halle Berry is signed to star and Paul Weiland is signed to direct, and I am delighted.

9. Sounds exciting - I can't wait until it's released. If you could choose any of your other novels to be made into a movie which would you pick and what would be your dream cast for it?

Actually, I think SECRETS OF A SHOE ADDICT would be a fun movie. I don't know who I'd cast, honestly, but I always love to watch Sandra Bullock and mid-80's Meg Ryan. So - them.

10. Do you have any advice for aspiring authors?

Not really, beyond the usual "write" and "submit" - it's a pretty straightforward process, though definitely not easy.

11. Are you working on a new book at the moment and if so can you tell us a little bit about it?
WHEN IT DOUBT, ADD BUTTER - about a personal chef who cooks up way more than she means to...

Thankyou so much Beth for joining us! Its been a pleasure interviewing you

Dont forget you can visit Beth Harbison here

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