Chick Lit Chick

The last month has just been boring.  Nothing good goin’ on.  Haven’t seen any really great movies or read any really great books.  The last month has just been blah.  And then I see this:

Woohoo!!  I can’t wait!!  Jennifer Lancaster’s next book is due in bookstores May 4, 2010 and can be preordered on Amazon now:  http://www.amazon.com/Fair-Lazy-Television-Culture-Up-Manifesto/dp/045122986X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257188619&sr=8-1

The full title is:  My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict’s Attempt to Discover If Not Being ADumb Ass Is the New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto.   

Just what I needed to start off the week on the right foot!!

I have been counting the days and it is finally here!!  As I usually do with my favorite authors, I had calendared the release date for Jennifer Lancaster’s new book, Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending,Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart Ass Phase and I was at Border’s when it opened.  I read the first couple pages before going into my office and it was all I could do not to call in sick and stay home reading all day. 

I haven’t finished it yet, because I am reading four other books as well, but I should finish it up tomorrow.  So far, so good!  Jennifer Lancaster is hilarious and brings back numerous disturbing fashion flashbacks from the ’80’s.  And for those of us whose painful, formative years took place in the ’80’s, it is a relief to know that everyone was making the same bad fashion choices back then.  Why exactly did our hair need to be that big?!?!

I consider this Chick Lit, basically because I like it and it is funny.  But it is, in fact, a memoir.  Can memoirs be Chick Lit too?