ok i picked this book up at the las vegas airport on the way home from… vegas! shocking! lamele and i went out there last summer for a few days and had a blasty – when we were heading home there were big chunks of time on the horizon and i had left omnivore’s dilemma in my suitcase instead of throwing it in my purse.

honestly i picked this one because i knew it’d be an easy read, something i could read for a few hours on the way home and then put on a shelf until i’d finished omnivore, the kind of book where you could pick right back up where you left off like a month or two later and not feel lost because everything about reading it is just so easy. plus, i hadn’t seen the movie yet and i always dig reading the book before seeing the movie. and with that, i give you:

hearts and laserbeams book report: confessions of a shopaholic by sophie kinsella

ok I LOVED THIS BOOK. super fun read, super fast read, and before you know it you’re done reading! the main character rebecca is just so flighty and lighthearted, just la la la la la shop shop shop hooray!

but the weirdest thing started happening as i was reading this – while i was having the time of my life reading about her shoppy adventures, as a chick who’s pretty non-shoppy and has lots of living paycheck to paycheck experience, this shopaholic girl was seriously stressing me out!! i’d be reading about her going deeper and deeper into debt, and throwing away late notices and my inner old-lady monologue would scream things like, “YOU’RE RUINING YOUR CREDIT RATING!”

which is a completely uncharacteristically absurd thing for me to think while reading anything. but seriously, girl was freaking me out. other things my brain screamed while i was having a grand ol’ time reading this book:

omg you did not just lie on your resume and say you’re fluent in finnish!! they’re gonna check that!

omg no you did not just blow off the meeting with the bank when you’re gonna start sorting your crap out!

basically, i think part of the fun reading this book was how much it made my practical side sweat. i’ll probably pick up another one in the series sometime soon when i need another fluffy feel-good read! (me thinks that may be the case after my next book report selection, the bell jar by sylvia plath. yup, i’m back on the high school reading list stuff!

ratings:
hearts: 4 hearts – really fantastically fun read, well written and funny!
farts: 1 fart for keeping my inner monologue yelling at me throughout the 350 pages.

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