Book Club Friday: Pretty in Plaid

Here's what I read...

Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase by Jen Lancaster

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Summary...

 In Pretty in Plaid, Jen Lancaster reveals how she developed the hubris that perpetually gets her into trouble. Using fashion icons of her youth to tell her hilarious and insightful stories, readers will meet the girl she used to be.

Think Jen Lancaster was always "like David Sedaris with pearls and a super-cute handbag?" (Jennifer Coburn) Think again. She was a badge-hungry Junior Girl Scout with a knack for extortion, an aspiring sorority girl who didn't know her Coach from her Louis Vuitton, and a budding executive who found herself bewildered by her first encounter with a fax machine. In this humorous and touching memoir, Jen Lancaster looks back on her life-and wardrobe-before bitter was the new black and shows us a young woman not so very different than the rest of us.

The author who showed us what it was like to wait in line at the unemployment office with a Prada bag, how living in the city can actually suck, and that losing weight can be fun with a trainer named Barbie and enough Ambien is ready to take you on a hilarious and heartwarming trip down memory lane in her shoes (and very pretty ones at that).

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My Thoughts...

 

This book was such a fun read! You should definitely read all of her books. :)

 Jen Lancaster is one of my favorite authors and every one of her memoirs is full of relatable and hilarious accounts of her life. There were many times that while reading in bed I would wake Justin up because I was laughing too loud. 

Out of all her books, I think her first, Bitter is the New Black, is still my favorite (I remember that I had a hard time reading it in public because I'd bust out laughing so often!) but this one was definitely worth the $4 I spent on it!