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hey guys and girls!
It's probably a good thing Amelia "inadvertently" killed the old blog spot so we can all start anew. So how's everyone doing? still kicking A-double S I trust?? I'm still scraping by in New York, wondering if I want to finish school or not. By show of hands, who thinks I should finish and who thinks I should regain my sanity and quit? Any good books to read that anyone would like to recommend? Preferably mindless and inconsequential prattle vs. deeply provocative prose. I'm listening to The Be Good Tanyas right now, I submit that to the board for review. Hope you're all doing mighty fine. I miss you all!!
3 comments:
finish school, i say.
as for amusing books, i like those big fat coffee table books of pictures for flipping through idly when you just want to relax.
but most of the time i usually take the deeply provocative prose, myself.
My book recomendation to anyone (I've laughed harder at this book and its foot notes than any other book in a long time. Be warned if you're sensitive to foul language because it is in there)
Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a condescending egomaniacal, self-centered smart-ass, or why you should nevery carry a Prada Bag to the unemployment office.
a memoir by Jen Lancaster.
I know they say that judging a book by the cover is 'bad' but I met a friend of her's on myspace, and loved the title of the book, but I bought it based on the back cover. Let me share:
This is the story of how a haughty former sorority girl went from having a household income of almost a quarter-million dollars to being evicted from a ghetto apartment ... It's a modern Greek tragedy, as defined by Roger Dunkle in The Classical Origins of Western Culturs: a sotry in which 'the centeral character, called a tragic protagonist or hero, suffers some serious misfortune which is not accidental and therefore meaninglyss, but is significant in that the misfortune is logically connected'
In other words? The bitch had it coming.
i think you should finish school too because work in the real world is not as much fun as school. even though, i am getting my own (well, shared with lisa) office :-)
my recommendation for light fluffy reading is young adult fiction so there's no way it will be heavy. Beauty by Robin McKinley
it's a retelling of beauty and the beast and it does a great job of giving both of them personalities and the castle a life of its own. it's one of my favorites
for a slightly more serious book (only slightly) Talk to the Hand by Lynn Truss is great if you think the world is full of rude morons!
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