With the closing of this book, I've read everything she's written from finish to start. I didn't really mean to read her books backward, it just happened that way. Sadly, I saved the WORST for last, as this was her first book and quite frankly, I think it took her the first two in order to master the quippy humor and social disregard that is her signature (and the reason why I will probably read anything she writes).
BLBA is funny, yes. I LOL'd a few times for sure, but it's also incredibly annoying. Well, Jen is annoying. Her schtick has long been that she's a fat (and doesn't care) white woman who used to have a lot of money, is married to a genius husband, has three overweight cats and two crazy huge dogs; her books are about the little things in life that make you laugh. Three years ago when I read my first Lancaster book,
Bitter is the New Black I found her hilarious...a sort of Margaret Cho for suburban overweight women who used to be sorority girls, a kind of Jennifer Simpson with a higher IQ and larger bra size. But...reading her very first book, I'm thankful I started backward or I probably would have never gone forward. She does nothing but complain, complain, complain and complain some more in this book. And she makes me so mad at times I just want to yell - "Get off your fat ass and stop being such a little whiny bitch." There. I said it. Whew. The good news is, I've loved everything else she's done, especially her weight-loss memoir,
Such a Pretty Fat.
Visit her
blog for a real-time dose of the current Jen, but if you ask me, skip
BLBA and go straight to
Bitter to avoid her out-of-the-gate annoying writing and personality quirks.
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