So, I am still trying to get through my summer reading bucket list and have had to set a new deadline because I was crazy thinking I could possibly read 20 books in 2 months. Now the new extension will take me to October 15th, 2013. I sure hope I can accomplish this.
The book I am currently reading is "Let's Pretend this never happened, a mostly true memoir" by Jenny Lawson. I had been at Sam's one day and I usually peruse the book aisle to see what new and exciting treasure may be waiting for me to take home. I saw this said book and decided to add it to my bucket list, it sounded, let's say intriguing. Before buying it to read on my Nook, I also read many reviews. They boasted about this book being so funny it was hard to keep tears running down your cheeks while reading it and if reading it out in public getting weird looks when you were bowled over laughing so hard from this book.
With all of that under my belt so to speak, I decided to read it on my Nook. I was forwarned about the extensive use or over use in this case of the F bomb. That doesn't really bother me one way or the other, true, I don't like that word, but it wouldnt deter me of reading a book.
Let me just say this is by far the most unusual, NOT funny book, and as my mom likes to say "it has no hands or no feet." Basically it is a bunch of jibberish and I can't believe any publisher would want to have their name as an endorser of this book. I do not like this book, I would never recommend this book, and I won't be reading it ever again! But I put it on my bucket list to challenge me, for my upcoming writing debut, reading different authors. Getting a feel, if you will, of other writing styles not just the ones that I have been reading all my life. I broke out of my comfort zone and what an interesting ride this has been!
For instance this book goes into great detail in one chapter how this woman and her husband tried to have children, and many times because the woman has some kind of blood disorder she has several miscarriages. Then they find a medicine and put her on it and she is better and can have babies. So she gives birth finally to a daughter (yay for her) and then the next chapter tells all about her vagina. Seriously? Who cares about that subject and why on earth would you devote an entire chapter about that?! And then if that isn't bizarre enough it throws you into the next chapter where all she talks about is having an anxiety disorder. This I can totally symphathize with and is no joking matter! However, again another chapter devoted to on and on how she talks to herself, she doesnt like to ask for directions and gets lost easily even though her husband bought her a GPS and then she goes off in another direction and says that when she and her husband attend parties she stands in the corner talking to herself and never once mentioning her baby anymore.
True, I am not even half way through this awful book, and I am really trying to read 2-3 chapters of this per day. Sometimes it is hard to even read that. I am not exaggerating, this is the worst book EVER!!
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