Birth of Venus

I hope to start it this weekend. I have heard good things about it. We'll see!

50 Jobs Worse Than Yours

I read this one pretty fast... not much content, but what IS there is hilarious! A truely fast/great read...especially if you hate your job.

The title is pretty self explanitory. Inside there are pictures of the 50 worse jobs as well as accompanying comments, like salary, preks, job descriptions, skills needed, downsides.

One of my favorites is a Saddam Hussein double (now marked as unemployed)! HA!

Another great one is NYPD Harbor Unit: Body Recovery detail. Wonderful!

I know quite a few friends who should peruse this book to sort of look on the bright side. At least you aren't the "Before" Guy picture model.

Love Like That cont.

So I finished this book quite a while ago... but I do have to tell you what I thought about it.

This is a book about a gal in her mid 20s, Dalton (or Doll). She is dating one guy in a long distance relationship, but sleeping with another on the side. When her long distance beau proposes, she of course says "yes", but what is she to do about her fling. I don;t know if I would call it a fling though, since it has been going on for quite sometime... and both parties seem to be interested. This is a struggle to determine what kind of life she wants, as well as figure out who she really is before she can make any real decisions.

For the most part, I thought it was cute...but predictable. I guess in relationship-type books there really is no surprising me anymore. I could see what happened a mile away.

However, to the writer's credit, I think she did infuse some interesting/funny characters into the mix. Doll's two roomates are great comic foils to Doll's serious storyline.

Eh... it was a bit of a yawner, but I'm not saying I regret reading it.

Love Like That

Started this last week but I'm only a couple chapeters in... I'll be done hopefully after this weekend!!!

Dumping Billy Cont.

I finished this book the other day. I really did enjoy it. Yes there were some predictable parts, but overall it was a very cute and funny story about a girl who is looking to fall in love in all the wrong places, but ends up falling when she least expects it.

These types of stories gives me that little tingle in my stomach and keeps me hopeful for my future. I think I'm a lot like the main character, Kate. She has accomplished a lot, but still has these expectations of what life should be like.

I think at times the author tried a little too hard to use a diverse vocabulary. I almost got the impression that her motives for using complicated words was to trick the reader (and critics) into believe this was not Chick Lit, it was something more. Unfortunately that trick was not successful. This is chick lit for sure, but I still think it is good chick lit.

I think it would make a cute movie.

Dumping Billy

Just started it yesterday. It is decent so far. Good character development at the beginning, which is aways a plus. I have yet to meet "Billy"... so we'll see where this goes. I have high hopes! Hee Hee

Million Little Pieces cont...

So I finished the book this last weekend. I wish I wouldn't have heard all of the press until after I was done reading, but nevertheless, I though the book was still pretty good. If you haven't read it, I don't want to ruin anything, so you may not want to read any further...

Ok... now that all the non-informed have left, here is what I think. I really enjoyed the style of writing. Grammer and punctuation were absent throughout most of the book, which normally I would classify as one of my all-time pet peeves, but in this instance, I think it fit. The drug addicted mind doesn't insert commas or elipses for dramatic pause. Though, elipses are my favorite punctuation. I did expect for them to really go back and get deep into things he did before he got to the drug treatment center. Unfortunately they just mentioned certain instances where he made some really bad moves. I do have to mention that the dentist part was toe-curling horrific. I felt like it was happening to me... I had to set the damn book down and take a breather.

Since so much controversy has surrounded this book, I decided to take a look into the claims made. I did find that when James had his appearence on Larry King Live to clear up the alligations that he embellished, Oprah called in and said she still stands behind James and his efforts to educate the masses on drug treatment and addication. Now, as most of you know, anything Oprah says goes in my book, however, I couldn't help but question James and his mom (who appeared on Oprah when she announced that she has picked Million Little Pieces as her next Book Club selection). When thesmokinggun.com posted all of the inaccuracies in this book, James claims that the inaccuracies are from 18 pages for a 420-something page book. While I would normally look the other way, I can't help but wonder if this is actually a story of some spoiled kid who just did drugs because he had too much money and too much time on his hands. I knew people like that. The kids who had parents who just gave them everything (well... my parents did as well, and I never did drugs), and the kids decide that, just to be cool, they will do some random drugs. If this is the case, then I am not impressed. Thesmokinggun.com alleges that James never spent any hard time anywhere and that the charges he mentions in the book were fabrications. You can check out their article here. I guess judge for yourself.

I think a memoir should be considered just that if everything in the book is true. While names and distinguishing features may be changed, main facts should not. Just call is a novel, man!

Million Little Pieces

Good book thus far.... 1/2 way done... I will discuss soon!