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After reading two of Chelsea Handler’s books, I didn’t think there were any more stories she could tell.  I was proven wrong with this truly hilarious collection of essays.  While My Horizontal Life focused on Handler’s crazy sex stories, this book is centered, primarily, on the practical jokes she plays on her friends.  How she…

Okay okay, I may have read a book (or set of three books) meant for teens.  Judging yet?  How about once I tell you I absolutely LOVED it?  I would judge me, too.  The Hunger Games trilogy follows Katniss Everdeen as she struggles against an oppressive government in a post-Apocalyptic world where children are made…

I’m a big fan of the current NY Times restaurant critic, Sam Sifton, but I also have mad respect for his predecessor, Frank Bruni, who wrote Born Round not long after finishing his stint as Times critic.  Ladies, let me tell you, weight issues are not just a girl thing.  Bruni chronicles about 40 years of…

The premise behind Room is creepy and unnerving.  Emma Donoghue has created a world inside a garden shed – the only world 5-year-old Jack knows.  Jack cannot comprehend that he was born in captivity after his mother was abducted and locked in a cramped space for seven years.  The story was disturbing and believable in…

It took me no time at all to read Tina Fey’s new book.  This makes me sad because I loved it dearly and wish there was more of it.  If you didn’t pick this up from her writing/acting on Mean Girls, Saturday Night Live, or 30 Rock, she is a very funny lady.  Though, if…

I’m sure you gathered from all the book reviews that I’m a pretty big reader.  Well, that love of the written word didn’t just pop outta nowhere, more like it’s stitched into my DNA.  I share this affection for books with my mother, who read to me each and every night growing up.  In fact,…

I didn’t want to like it, I really didn’t.  People evangelize Dave Eggers’ work like it was penned by the Good Lord, himself.  I didn’t want to drink the Kool-Aid.  I’m better than that, I thought.  My tastes are more discriminating and I will not succumb to a mere craze in the literary world.  He…

I had read bits and pieces of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir before, so I knew what I was getting into. There are so many “does this really happen?!” moments that I believe actually ring true. Does the rampant drug use behind the kitchen doors of the finest restaurants bother me? A bit, yes. Did I still…

My idea of a beach read is a collection of raunchy essays.  Unlike most girls, I’m not one for chick lit, but I had heard enough raves about these books that I figured I would pick them up before going to an advanced screening of the film adaptation I had RSVP’d to (which I thought…