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Bright Lights, Big Ass
Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-indulgent, Surly Ex-sorority Girl's Guide to why it Often Sucks in the City, Or, Who are These Idiots and why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? | Jen Lancaster
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A hilarious new memoir by the best-selling author of Bitter Is the New Black chronicles the not-so-wonderful moments of her life in the big city, from reporting rude neighbors to Homeland Security or harboring a crush on her grocery store clerk, to fighting and losing the Battle of the Stairmaster. Original.
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JoScho
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Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for us, Lancaster knows how to make the life of the lower crust mercilessly funny and infinitely entertaining.

I haven‘t read this but it sounds great!
#bright #boundtogetherjune

OriginalCyn620 Yes, it does! 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m going to stack!!! 4y
OrangeMooseReads She has a great sense of humor. This book made me me giggle and laugh out loud. 4y
JoScho @OrangeMooseReads it sounds hilarious. I‘m looking forward to it. 4y
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LauraBrook
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Mehso-so

This is the second of Jen's memoirs (I read the first one when it came out and really liked it - then proceeded to buy the bulk of her work in the interim years without reading anything else). But this is almost 10 years old and while primarily it doesn't show its age, there were a few odd ways that it did. (Nothing spring to mind.) I LOL'ed a few times near the end, and I nodded in sympathy once or twice. Liked it, didn't love it.

LauraBrook I'll look for the audio of that one - thanks, @Carol ! It's quick reading, at least, and she's funny sometimes. I have a hard time with narcissistic people, though, and that's where she's losing me. 🙇🏻‍♀️ 8y
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