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Click on the links below to read articles, interviews and more about
Chantel.
| | The Eyeopener
Rye grad meditates on chick-lit
When Chantel Simmons joined her first book club, she found herself with a massive copy of Jonathan Franzen?s, The Corrections in hand. Read more...
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 | | ADVANCED PRAISE
"Quirky, endearing, wry and zeitgeist-savvy, Mara Brennan is a chick-lit heroine of the highest order. Too bad we couldn't tell Mara right from the start that her foibles are her strength, and her curvaceousness, her beauty and her zaniness are her great organizing principles. Then again, that wouldn't have been nearly as much fun. Chantel Simmons is an energetic young author with an admirably shameless sense of fun.
–Louisa McCormack, author of Six Weeks to Toxic
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| | Winnipeg Free Press
Reviewed by Gabrielle Giroday The advertising slogan on Torontonian Chantel Simmons' yoga-themed chick-lit novel says it all: "It's not about getting the guy, it's about getting a life."
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| | MY TRAGIC RIGHT HIP
"I finished reading Chantal Simmons's Stuck in Downward Dog. I got a little teary at the end, and it was refreshing to read a chicklit novel where 'getting the boy' wasn't the central focus of the story. I liked how the book was more about a journey for the character into herself versus a more stereotypical journey into the right relationship."
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| | Our Funny Little Bunny Blog
I'm not one to write book reviews, but I had to write a short piece about this great book recommended by Nadine over at MFM. Her list has a lot of good choices and "Stuck in Downward Dog" was the first one I picked. Read more...
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| | EXTREME MAKEOVER
Author Chantel Simmons explores the dueling worlds of cosmetic surgery and yoga, and finds they-re not as different as you'd think.
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| | THE LITERARY WORD - BOOK REVIEW
Mara Brennan is 28. This should be a good year for her, according to her mother that is. For Mara's mother and sister, 28 was a brilliant age, a year in which everything seemed to fall into place for them and surely it will work out that way for Mara too.
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| | YOGA MEET WORLD
Ever found yourself leaving yoga class feeling more stressed out than when you arrived? With career issues.
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by Emina Gamulin
(2005, Magazine World)
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