Bright Lights, Big Ass

I have a perpetual cycle that I go through when reading books: first, I spend a month or two with magazines: Entertainment Weekly and Glamour, specifically. Once I grow bored of that, I move on to chick-lit types of books and then eventually onto the more "high-brow" books when I feel like I need to actual learn something or spend my time becoming more cultured (that's the only reason I've read things such as Catcher in the Rye and The Red Badge of Courage...which, I'd like to congratulate my wonderful schools for allowing me to have 4 years of advanced English AND and English degree but it took reading the Shopaholic series to get me to ready Catcher in the Rye.)

So. I'm currently on my Chick Lit month and I've just read one of the funniest books I've encountered in a long time: Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster. Hilarious. To the point where I had to stop and compose myself on the bus this morning before someone thought I was having a seizure trying not to laugh.

This woman is hilarious. Read it--you'll love it. And just TRY not to laugh when you read about her exploding out of her pants after working out. I dare you.

I'm off to Amazon to buy her other book (Bitter is the New Black) right now. Because I just can't get enough. Good thing she has a blog too.

A Dirty Job

I finished reading A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore on the way to work this morning and considered writing a review of the book.

But that's pretty hard.

So I'll just say that I enjoyed it a lot and found myself laughing out loud a couple times (always embarrassing when on the bus). It also leads itself well to discussions of life and death and reaching your potential in life and all that jazz. If you're so inclined to discuss that stuff. If not, it's just a good book.

Thanks Jamie for recommending it. :)

Oh, and I haven't had a diet coke for almost 36 hours and am alternating gorging myself on water trying to pretend it's diet coke and falling asleep at my desk. It's been harder than I thought trying to break myself of my DC habit. Wish me luck.