Twenties Girl

I just finished reading Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella. As expected, it's as witty and fabulous as her other novels. It's a little bit of everything: family, love, fashion and work. A fabulous read, in my humble opinion.

Here's a summary I got from Shvoong.com
I would like to write a summary myself but I'm afraid I might not be satisfactory at it.

Lara Lington is a qualified twenty-something young woman. She has always had an overactive thought, but suddenly her thoughts seem to be in overdrive. She is getting visited by ghosts.

The spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie mysteriously appears to her. Sadie was a lively, tough girl with compact ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance. Sadie has one last request that Lara must find a misplaced necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. But Lara, on the other hand, has a many enduring distractions. Her greatest friend and business partner has run off to Goa, her start-up company is struggling, and she’s just been deserted by her “perfect” man.

But Sadie, however, is not bothered about this. Lara and Sadie make an amusing sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in familiarity. But as the task to find Sadie’s necklace leads to a conspiracy and a new romance for Lara, these very unlike “twenties” girls learn some amazing realities from each other along the way.

It was simply moving.

Anyhoots, a quote from the book jumped out at me.

Sadie: "You can want and want and want. But if he doesn't want you back, you might as well wish the sky were red."

Ouch. I think, at some point in our lives, we came or will come to a moment when we meet someone we actually yearn for. And we become very passionate to get that person to want us back. But in most cases, we end up realizing that that person does not see us the same way we see them. It's sad but it's reality.

The question is: Do we move on from that person? Or do we fight for what we feel is right?

In this book, the main character (Lara) realized that she'd been chasing after the wrong guy for the wrong reasons, not realizing that Mr. Right is right there in front of her.

But in some cases, we're made to believe that we're chasing after the wrong people--by our family, by religion or by society.

Sadie died not knowing that the man she loved loved him back with all his heart--putting aside the fact that he was sent to France by his parents to separate them because they disapprove of their love affair.

I guess the important thing to do is to follow your heart. The heart can be stupid at times, but when it feels strongly about something, it usually is right. :)