�I�m not the New Me� by Wendy McClure �- worst book I�ve read in the last 5 years.� Easily.� Thankfully I have my receipt and tomorrow I will promptly take it back to B&N and they�ll let me because I�m their best customer.� I kept reading the book to the end just to be fair about my opinion and critique, because I believe before you say something sucks ass you should have at least read the entire thing!!�

 

Here�s the entire premise of the book�hell here�s the entire plot for you�save your money!!!!--�� �I�m a fat girl because my Mother was a fat girl and we both ate ice cream like pigs, then one day I bought a cheap scale at a flea market and decided to go to Weight Watchers.� Then I decided to start an online journal about my fatness and low and behold I lost 25 lbs and then wait�I had a few boyfriends and they both left me and then I gained back about 10 lbs and decided that being fat was ok because what the hell someone was stupid enough to publish my book!

 

Also I have it on high authority that�well you know how all books include those blurbs by other famous authors that you might have read before and liked?� The ones that gush about the book you�re thinking about buying?� Well it�s mostly bullshit.� It�s mostly other people published by the same publishing house that happen to be friends of someone that knows the person who wrote the book you are holding.� So low and behold if you like Jennifer Weiner (and really who can�t like someone that writes chic lit books that aren�t officially called chic lit books because perhaps they are rather good considering chic lit books) and you see that she proclaims �A brave bittersweet look at weight, loss, and elusive happy endings.� on the cover of this book you might be fooled into buying it.� I have read a lot of books, quite a few memoirs�and trust me this is a book about a fat girl that loses 15 lbs in all and is jealous of a girl that actually succeeds and then she pretends by the end that she�s ok with being fat and not having the guy.� Paaalease.� Fat, manless and happy?� It�s like saying, while digging in your hand me down couch for change, that you thought you had all 5 numbers on your lottery ticket but you realize that you really didn�t want to win the lottery after all, and you just pick the lint off of your newfound change and pretend it�s ok�.yah suuure.� If we could chose we�d all want to be loved and be thin and not necessarily in that order.�

 

Book�sucked.� Period.� Only good part was the funny Weight Watcher�s cards that can be mostly seen on the authors website for free.� Go see the free version and save your $14.00.�

 

There are a lot of people online that made their diet�s work�who achieved a goal.� Their stories would probably be much more interesting. I am not jealous of her having written a book and had it published.� If I pine away to be an author I am jealous of people like Richard Ford, Ian McEwan, Brett Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland, Tod Goldberg, Nick Hornby, Joyce Maynard, Haruki Murakami, etc�.just off the top of my head.� Want to read a great memoir?� I suggest A millon little pieces by James Frey.� Now there�s a story.

 

Over the last week I�ve also read C'est la Vie by Suzy Gershman and guess what?� It was ok.� I didn�t much like knowing about her old boyfriend needing Viagra to get it on and I didn�t care about her choice of outfits, restaurants and need to be socially accepted by the elite in Paris, but I was charmed by her descriptions of gaining an apartment and looking for a bed and sheets at an affordable price.� I think the book would have been better if she were a tad more honest about overcoming the loss of her husband.� I mean she didn�t ever once have a real true breakdown, at least not in text.� Come to think of it, I wouldn�t recommend this book either!� Blah�.� I just looked at the cover of this book and Diane Johnson of �Le Divorce� fame provided the blurb�yah so what I didn�t like the movie made about her book either!!

 

I might not sound nice in my reviews but I will never tell you �Oh childbirth�s not that painful� like my Aunt did.� I never forgave her and I�d never tell you to buy a book if it just sucks.� I could never be a blurb provider if I didn�t actually read the entire book and believe in it.

 

 

 

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