Loved this book. It was fun. Sort of like a cross between a travelogue and QVC.
My review is posted on Urban Beatz, Inc.
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Happy Thursday.

Another book club read.
Another chance to read what I really felt about a book.
Check out my review over at Urban Beatz Inc.

It’s Urban Beatz Inc review day.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
Small book, big message. Pick it up and begin the journey towards your own personal legend- if you haven’t already.
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I love, love, love Wally Lambs books. But he is not the guy you want to read if you are looking for a mental break.

Synopsis
Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother, Jean. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found “the One”—the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee in the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric childhood and her relationship with Jean through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks.
 
I truly enjoy reading British authors.  Most of the time.  Crocodile Soup was the selection …

The full title is: Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
You can see why I decided to use the short version for my post title.  
Synopsis(from www.barnesandnoble.com)
 
Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life-until real life kicked her to the curb. 
She had the perfect man, the perfect job-hell, she had the perfect life-and there was no reason to think it wouldn’t last. Or maybe there was, but Jen Lancaster was too busy being manicured, pedicured, …

Excerpted from Paulo Coelho’s website:
“Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria…” Like a fairy-tale for adults, this is the beginning of the novel that shook the world. 
“Eleven Minutes does not intend to be a manual or a treatise on men and women faced by the still unknown world of sexual relationships. It is an analysis of my own journey, without wanting, at any time, to judge what I experienced.

I wrote this book in order to discover whether I had had the courage to learn everything life had …

by Candace Bushnell.
From Publishers Weekly
Sex in the City goes middle-aged, mordant and slapstick in Bushnell’s chronicle of writers, actors and Wall Street whizzes clashing at One Fifth Avenue, a Greenwich Village art deco jewel crammed with regal rich, tarty upstarts and misguided lovers.
 
It was ok.