The Undomestic Goddess.. Sophie Kinsella

Okay so maybe I'm a little late in following the Sophie Kinsella craze but I've finally finished reading this chic lit by her... As all of her other writings, it's written in d 1st person's perspective who's a female..

Slight synopsis: It's about Samantha Sweeting, a high earning lawyer in London's top law firm, a graduate from Cambridge Law, with an IQ of 158, mind you. She comes from an even higher achieving family; a barrister for a mother and a financier brother. Her whole life has been about being made the youngest partner at that firm but one day disaster strikes and she decides to drop everything she had and run away. Fate, as you may say, brought her to Lower Ebury, a beautiful village in d middle of nowhere where she was mistaken as a housekeeper interviewee. And of course, as with all other high achieving feminist, she has absolutely no idea of the concept housekeeping.. She doesn't even know how a toaster looks like, let alone make a gourmet meal... But soon she falls in love with her simple yet fulfilling life, and decides that the pressure of a high-paying job is just too much to bear and settles for being a housekeeper as apparently that's what makes her happy

What I think about it? Well, 1st of all.. I do not like the notion that women have to be one or the other.. Just bcoz some of us choose to be smart and want to achieve things in life, doesn't mean we are totally hopeless around the house. Is there a universal rule that says a woman has to be one or the other? So in this book, Samantha decides to drop her job and her childhood dream bcoz she chose to return to the kitchen. Is she trying to say that it's inevitable for women that at the end of the day, our place is in the kitchen or at home ironing clothes? What is wrong with wanting to achieve?

So in the end she learned to cook a few meals from her gardener boyfriend's mother.. and a few other household tricks which are common sense to most of us... and she decides that she wants a relaxed life and money isn't everything.. I have no problems with the notion: Money can't buy happiness. What I do have a problem with is why is it we women have to give up so much more to achieve that happiness?

What I also find weird is that the author is a female who writes from the point of view of a female... but the book sounds chauvanistic~ hurmm... but then again, the books pretty funny, how ridiculously clueless Samantha is around the house is just hilarious.. It's a good read but twitched a nerve or two for me..