The book has a, lot of potential, but was terribly disorganized and really felt like a lot of random thoughts just collected and put in a book. I laughed a lot and I enjoyed her descriptions of Chicago but this according to some of Jenexpert friends is not like her other books. There is not pl...
While I have liked some of the authors other books I found this one to be bordering on ridiculous. At first I found her snark to be funny but now it is more so neurotic and trivial. In this story she has made it over the devastation of just about losing everything and now moving away from the cit...
Jen Lancaster spends a year of her life emulating Martha Stewart and solving her problems the way Martha would. I like Jen and Martha and thought this would be a nice read. Jen isn't as funny in this book as she is in others, but her Martha adventures work out well for her. At the end of the day,...
I've read all of Jen Lancaster's books and just ordered her newest one. While I thoroughly enjoyed this one it didn't quite give me the same number of laugh out loud's that the others had. I read this one on my Kindle and wonder if I simply didn't read it with enough consistency. However, I st...
just OK not as funny as others nostalgic, since I am from Indiana and u went to purdue and lived in Chicago.
I'll be honest. I had a hard time getting through this story and it took me two tries at it.First, I borrowed the book from the library. I read about a chapter and then it sat in my book bin unread...until I had to return it (still unread). But, I had started it, so I downloaded the audiobook f...
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...
This is the story of how a haughty former sorority girl went from having a household income of almost a quarter-million dollars to being evicted from a ghetto apartment... It's a modern Greek tragedy, as defined by Roger Dunkle in The Classical Origins of Western Culture: a story in which "the ce...
XO, A To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: June 22nd Subject: ??? Um . . . do you, like, not live here anymore? There’s someone else in your apartment, with, like, not your stuff. Am I fired? Is this because I ate your caviar? &n...
Unknown @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } 68My old neighbor Melissa has been laid off four times in the past year and a half. I don’t understand how she hasn’t yet taken a hostage out of sheer frustration.
Often I go the long way so I can stop in the park and pay a visit to the swing set (or hot dog stand), but this afternoon is not about dawdling (or sauerkraut). My dad’s finally home after his extended business trip to Indiana and I suspect there’s a present in his suitcase with my name on it.(De...
It’s touching my sweet potatoes!” One of Mary Mac’s twins—no idea which—is in the throes of a fit, having been served a tiny portion of the beautiful salad I made especially for this meal. From the way she’s carrying on, you’d imagine I was trying to poison her, and not just add a little non-fact...
Now that this is my job, I’m literally and figuratively attempting to work my ass off.86The problem is, the more I do, the more I hear the same damn songs on my iPod, and I’m beginning to tire of my superfantastic treadmill mix. Although it remains superfantastic, I need to add some new superfant...
so that employees may attend the funeral for our beloved founder and friend, James “Trip” Chandler III, who tragically passed away last Wednesday when his plane crashed into the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize. Services will be held at 3:00 p.m. at Harris Brothers Fu...
When the base closed in the 1990s, the Department of Defense sold the land to local developers and now the area’s been reborn by way of attractive housing units. Every house, apartment, and townhome was gutted and refurbished, but developers saved the exteriors, so all the homes are still made of...
Missing her has become a physical ache. Every time I think, “I’m better now!” I have a setback. I’m somehow regressing in my grief and I don’t understand why.Maybe it’s finally sinking in that she’s not coming back, especially since we received the urn with her ashes. We placed her on a shelf in ...