last read... I only got around to two books during the month of August. One I enjoyed and one that I wish I had not bothered reading. I will let you figure out which was which. I blame my senior thesis advisor for turning me on to Bret Easton Ellis. Dr. Haley augmented my list [...]
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Don’t Book Back // My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by @racheldeloache
last read... 2017 to 2018 was the year of the grifter. Billy McFarland. Yvonne Bannigan. Anna Sorokin. The latter's narrative may have been the most outrageous and unbelievable. It certainly seemed to keep Twitter enrapt throughout the summer of 2018. I was one of the spectators who incredulously absorbed coverage of the con artist, from [...]
Don’t Book Back // Melissa Explains It All by Melissa Joan Hart
last read... I read Melissa Explains It All over my Fourth of July vacation. I purchased this book along with Danielle Fishel's and Lance Bass's memoirs and, while I read those last summer, I wish it had not taken me so long to get around to this one. It is easily digestible; I read it in [...]
Don’t Book Back // The Knockoff: A Novel by @Lucy_Sykes and @jopiazza
last read... Real truth: I started reading this about two months ago. Between a really rough and tough first quarter at work and moving across the country in March, I took in as much as I could. I found myself looking forward to finishing it, especially once I established a gym-going routine which allowed me [...]
Don’t Book Back // Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny by @hollymadison
last read... Over the past two weeks, I read Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny by Holly Madison while on the elliptical. Thinspiration, amirite? Y'all, that was actually a sarcastic remark. Throughout the book, Holly discusses the body dysmorphia she experienced. As someone who thought she was [...]
Don’t Book Back // Official Book Club Selection by @KathyGriffin
last read... I think there is something to be said for someone who can make fun of herself. Speaking for myself, for every time I poke fun at somebody else, I make three jokes at my own expense. Let's not take ourselves too seriously, amirite people? I think Kathy Griffin has the same perspective and [...]
Don’t Book Back // 2018 in Review
I set the goal to read more in 2018. While I went the first six months sans picking up a book, a mid-year vacation and a great book really kicked me into gear. Suddenly, I was consuming a book a week and subsequently sharing them on Lucindervention. It was the first time I enjoyed reading [...]
Don’t Book Back // UnSweetined by Jodie Sweetin
last read... Does anyone else watch Hollywood Darlings? I cannot recall how I stumbled upon it two summers ago...or was it last spring? Regardless, it is a sitcom in which three former child actresses portray exaggerated versions of themselves in the vein of James van der Beek in Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23. [...]
Don’t Book Back // Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gaby Moss
last read... Every woman who ever wished she could enroll in Sweet Valley High or join The Babysitters Club needs to read Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction. Easily one of my favorite books of recent memory, I took this book out over the course of three days. I looked forward [...]
Don’t Book Back // Man Repeller: Seeking Love. Finding Overalls. by @LeandraMedine
last read... Over five days, I digested Leandra Medine's Man Repeller: Seeking Love. Finding Overalls. Being that it was published back in 2013, I am late on reading this book. I only recently discovered that she had written this and upon the revelation, immediately purchased it on iBooks. Leandra (after reading such personal experiences, I [...]
Don’t Book Back // Born To Be Brad by @mrbradgoreski with @mickeyrapkin
last read... I just finished reading Born To Be Brad by Brad Goreski. Like Fashion Victim, the reading material alone was enough of a carrot to get me on the elliptical. I loved that Brad (and I am sure, to an extent, Mickey Rapkin) wrote in the voice that we all know from The Rachel [...]
Don’t Book Back // This Is How It Starts by @GrantGinder
last read... As mentioned in a past post about another novel taking place within the Beltway, I love reading fiction set in Washington DC. Especially since I have left the District, looking back on the specific time and era of these books takes me back and especially when written accurately, I can imagine that I [...]