Book 'em Sunday - Jen Lancaster

Today for Book 'em Sunday we are featuring Jen Lancaster. You will be super glad we did.
There is nothing funnier than these books, well, the one and a half I have read anyway. I came to the party late, the first book "Bitter is the New Black" came out in 2006 and I just read it yesterday. Now I am on "Bright Lights, Big Ass" and then will come "Such a Pretty Fat" and "Pretty in Plaid."

These are all memoirs and are set in Chicago. They are just a joy to read, I laid out by the pool and just laughed my way through the day. Good thing too, since the thing I birthed locked me outside of my house and then headed for a birthday party CLEAR ACROSS TOWN. When I was slightly shrill about this, it was explained to me that I should be happy he cared about safety. You can't be too safe in our part of town. Indeedy. So I had quite a few hours to kill and I spent them giggling like a maniac.

"Bitter is the New Black" takes us on the journey of having it all and then heading back down the slide to start over. Ms. Lancaster writes with so much humor that even though you want to feel sad, you are too busy saying to yourself "Oh My God, I would SO do that and that and OH for sure that." It makes you feel so much better to know other people are just like you. And they write about it.
I am just in the middle of "Bright Lights, Big Ass" and am enjoying it just as much. I was up till 1 am alternating reading and watching the scary dvd show "The Profiler." Laughter and total terror that is some potent combo. Olive thought I had lost my mind and that is saying something from the dog that has not spent one day sane since we got her. She is quite judgemental.

The first three books are in paperback and the last one just came out in hardback. So if you need a little laughter, and lets face it we all so do, pick up these books and laugh away. Today I am getting my hair done and will be taking one to read. That way all the other women will be able to judge me on why I am cackling like a loon and not the fact that I don't have a wedding ring on my left hand. Shallow, shallow women abound at my salon.