Book Review: Can You Keep a Secret?

So, I just finished reading Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella. As in, stayed up until 3 AM this morning to finish reading it. It was a really thoroughly enjoyable book. Yes, it was fluffy, and no I won't remember the storyline next year, but I laughed hard at the main character's secrets and dilemmas. The two main characters are at once fragile and likeable enough that you wish they would be your friends. I stumbled onto this author by accident, but I really enjoyed this book. It reminds me quite a bit of When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail and Bridget Jones' Diary.

Short Version: Emma Corrigan(who is deathly afraid of planes) sits next to a stranger on a flight that is actually quite fiercely turbulent and bumpy. Once the bumpiness begins, Emma begins pouring out all her secrets to the fascinated stranger. She shares every private detail: from the acutely embarassing, to the sweetly poignant, and the endearingly insane. When the flight ends, she gets off, embarassed that she's acted so silly but relieved that she'll never see the guy again. Obviously, she does see him again. Obviously, through several crazy turns they end up seeing each other too much for her taste at all, until she realizes she likes seeing him. Obviously, he ends up telling her crazy secrets to the people she would least be likely to share them with. Obviously it ends up all okay in the end and you leave with a warm happiness.

I laughed out loud enough that I'm surprised my roommates didn't start worrying about my sanity.

In fact, this sort of made me wonder about some of the things I've told strangers. Being from the south and my father's child, quite often I find myself talking to strangers in a rather familiar way. I've often told them things I wouldn't tell most of the people I hold dear. What would happen if one of those strangers somehow became a main character in my life? Would it be weird to have someone that knew those things interacting with the people that I would never share such information with?