Messy by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

    Messy is the sequel to Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. In Messy, Brooke has finally got her famous father's attention so she wants to take her career to a higher level to keep his attention. She launches a blog where she plans to tell it like it is in Hollywood. She wants this blog to be a success and she knows she needs a better writer. She decides to hire Max McCormack who agrees to be her ghost writer. The blog becomes a hit almost over night however Brooke can't live up to her intellectual wit in the blog in real life and Max doesn't want to hide her genius writing anymore. Throw in some boy trouble and this book will keep you turning pages.

    This book was really good and I would recommend reading both Spoiled and Messy. I found the beginning a bit slow but by the end I didn't want the book to be over. I love how the writers are funny and how they bring the Hollywood world to life as well as the average girl. They mix the two together well in their books. Brooke usually isn't my favorite character because she's a spoiled rich girl who doesn't care about others but there was a part in the book that I did actually feel bad for her. You sort of connect with her character a little more in this book than in the first one. She also seems to grow up more and understand the world doesn't evolve around her. Again it's a great book and would totally recommend Spoiled and Messy to anyone.

 

They also have such creative covers, love them!

 

 

 

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The One and Only by Emily Giffin

    You guys I was so excited for this book to come out and then it took me forever to actually pick it up and read it. I but aside to read on a vacation trip I had coming soon but the book was a little too big for my already oversized bag. Then I finally picked it up and started reading and could not get past the first chapter. Let me explain that a little more for you. The book opens on the viewing a character. The character died from cancer and at the time of me reading this book I just found out that my aunt had cancer and needed some surgery to hopefully remove it. I just couldn't get through it so I had to wait a while (after my aunts surgery which did successfully remove her cancer) till I was ok with everything but the book was definitely worth the wait.

    I love Emily Giffin's writing style. She always writes with such great detail that it's easy to picture the setting and it feels like you are there with the characters. The book is about Shea Rigsby who has always lived and breathed Walker, Texas. Her little hometown of Walker is a live and die college football town. Shea grew up with her best friend Lucy who's dad (Coach Carr) is the head coach of the football program. Shea decided to leave her safety net and venture out of Walker only to find Walker isn't exactly how she always thought it was. Shea is forced to confront her fears, secrets, and desires.

    College football was a big element in this book and it made me want to be a die hard college football fan. I enjoy watching football but I don't follow college teams. The way the book made me feel reminded me of the movie Fever Pitch with Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore in that it made you want to be a better sports fan. That you wanted to join the thousands of screaming fan cheering on their team. I love sports so maybe that's why I enjoy those types of movies and books that make you feel a part of something special and bigger than you.

 

 

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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

    I love this book so much! I think Mindy Kaling is absolutely hilarious and one of my favorite comedic actors/writers. This book is a must read for sure! I loved her from The Office, she played Kelly perfectly and it's great to know she is not similar to that character because Kelly had issues. I reread (I read it when it first came out in 2011) this book in honor of The Mindy Project coming back on tonight! Don't forget to watch!

   This is the overview of the book according to Barnes and Noble's website:

"Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?”

Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you’ve come to the right book, mostly!"

 

 

    Here are some quotes from the book. If these don't make you want to read it then you must not be human, jk. I can't give you page numbers because I read this on my Kindle.

 

 

• "However, you should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it's acid in the face- who will love them now?"

 

• "There has ceased to be a difference between my awake clothes and my asleep clothes."

 

• "Why isn't this more like Tina Fey's book? I know, man. Tina's awesome. I think she may have every major international trophy for excellence except a Heisman. (She might actually have an honorary Heisman, I should check.) Unfortunately, I can't be Tina, because it's very difficult to lure her into a Freaky Friday- type situation where we could switch bodies, even though in the movies they make it look so easy. Believe me, I've tried."

 

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Curious Reader xo