Judith Krantz is the kind of writer you just don't see anymore. When I first read I'll Take Manhattan in the 80's, I read it as a reader. It took me away to places I'd never been before: Monte Carlo, New York, a drafty castle in Scotland. It immersed me in a life I knew nothing about: publishing,...
I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/12549040 I sometimes read what I call "airplane reading" or "escape reading". I might even refer to it as "junk reading". This book, however, is fully deserving of that title. It was written in the 1990s but that doesn't...
Some situations were meant for the trashy novel. Beaches. Airplanes. Visa appointments. Judith Krantz is one of the best writers in this genre (yes, to me trashy novel is a genre) and "Princess Daisy" is the perfect combination of glamorous people, soap opera worthy plots and just enough sleaze. ...
Lovers is pure Krantz, an intoxicating dance of love lost, stolen, and found among women and men who lure each other with potent combinations of money, talent, ambition, and passion. Chief among them is irresistible Gigi Orsini, the high-spirited, merry, adventurous creature who grew up int...
Oh. My. Soul. This is a fantastic book! It really makes you question the worth of holding grudges and opportunities lost. So hard to put down once you get into it. I did find that the end of the book seemed to be somewhat rushed while other sections followed too much detail, but that is purely a ...
I have wanted to read this book for ages, ever since I found out there was a sequel to Scruples. I did not think I was EVER going to get through this. Additionally, I messed up by looking at her other books online & saw Billy & Spider were married so it made it drag that much worse, waiting on th...
This novel sweeps fifty years of art and fashion and women.The story starts with Magali, born a bastard because her father died of smallpox before he could marry her mother. At seventeen she ran away to become a model, became wildly successful thanks to Paula Deslandes, and fell ruthlessly in lov...
Billy doesn't have the greatest childhood. Raised by her widowed father who was more involved with his medical research than her upbringing, Billy is closer to the housekeeper than her own father. She turns to food for comfort and ends up overweight and seriously introverted. A kind aunt helps he...
I read this book for my Trash Book Club, where each of us got to choose our own Judith Krantz novel. In retrospect, I wish I'd picked one of Krantz's more 'famous' novels, such as Scruples or Princess Daisy or I'll Take Manhattan...but alas, I had purchased this novel at a used book store, and I...
Her arrival had been unheralded by anything more than her reservation of the Windsor Suite, yet somehow it was mentioned in Maggie Nolan’s well-read English-language society newsletter. Her purchase of one of the last of the beautiful houses of the Ancien Régime that had remained in private hands...
She came to a violent, skidding stop with a smashing of brakes, two feet away from her plane. She sprinted out of the car, untied the Rider, kicked the chocks out from under its wheels, jumped into the cockpit, punched the starter button, started the plane, and left the ground behind within secon...