Book of the Month (2010)
September 2010 Book of The Month:
“Women Have all The Power (too bad they don’t know it)”
By: Michael J. Lockwood
Does the name sound familiar to some of you? It should. He is a real estate developer who served as an Air Force Captain in the first Gulf War and Somalia and is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Oh & did we mention he lives in Dallas with his wife, WNBA star Lisa Leslie, and their three daughters.
Apparently in this book readers will discover:
• The red flags that signal trouble
• Why men live for the ‘thrill of the hunt’
• The techniques men use to get women into bed- and away from the altar
• The ten things to never do on a date
• How women regain their rightful position of power in a relationship
We certainly hope his wife helped with this book. Because no matter what you say. It is offense for a man to give a woman advice on being a woman. He just has no clue what it really is like & certainly that is vice versa. We’ll check it out.
August 2010 Book of The Month “Angelina”
Usually unauthorized Biographies are not on our radar but when it is a Juicy tell all of Angelina Jolie. We knew it was time to dive in. We all know about her romantic choices. But we don’t know what happens behind the scenes. The fact that she stole two married men away from their wives. Leaves allot to be desired & makes it very hard for women to find her likable. There is even moments about how Jennifer Aniston was affected by losing Brad & where she is now in her life. The author , Andrew Morton is well known for his tell all’s & this book is being raved as his best work yet.
BTW: he claims that 95% of the book is filled with proven accounts & that his resources are iron clad. But wouldn’t you if you had books to sell? We suggest you pick this up & take a long train ride!
July 2010 Book of the Month “Fat Vampire” By: Adam Rex
The Book will be released this July 27th 2010) but the hype around it is very HAWT! It is a teen friendly book that won’t be lost on more mature minds.
We will try our best to get our hands on it & review the book before July 31st.
Until then check out the editorial synapsis below:
The title says it all for this indulgent and delightfully macabre spoof on the current vampire craze. Doug Lee is 15 and overweight and will be for eternity. He may be a vampire, but he is not a romantic figure by any means. An opening scene at the San Diego Comic Con neatly captures the events unabashed geekiness, while Doug’s efforts to get some blood from a panda in the San Diego Zoo bring him to the attention of a reality TV show, Vampire Hunters. Back home in Philadelphia, Doug is smitten by a new exchange student from India, Sejal, who does not return his affection and tries to let him down easy. When he is not busy trying to win Sejal’s affections (or at least suck her blood) or fending off the TV show host, Doug gets tutored in vampire ways by a most unusual mentor. Rex successfully sustains the wonderfully dry humor and calculated silliness and then surprises the reader with a thoughtful, poignant, ambiguous ending that is bound to inspire discussion.
JUNE Pride Book of the Month 2010: “Where is my Wand?” by : Eric Poole
Synapsis: “A quirky, irreverent story of growing up odd in the 1970′s, when people still wrote letters, loved shag carpeting and used carbon paper.
Fox Television radio-marketing executive Poole grew up in the Midwest in a family, and among an assortment of characters, destined to end up in a coming- of-age memoir. Some of the more entertaining stories include the chaos of his parents’ fighting in 1969; the author’s befriending of the sarcastic, armless Stacy (who “exhibit[ed] her stumps to the amazement and awe of the gathered fourth-graders”); his magical obsessions with Bewitched, which included an unhealthy attachment to Endora; and his failed exorcism of another bow in Bible school. From his early childhood, when he escaped into his family’s basement to chant magical charms to ward off alienation and chaos, through his teenage years, when the normal teenage panic was amplified by the added bewilderment of his awakening homosexuality, Poole shares an intimate, self-effacing chronicle of a unique young boy and the forces that molded him into the grounded, articulate, charming oddball he is today. The real charm of the book lies in the authenticity of the humor. There is not one forced moment in the book, now is there a stitch of disingenuous manipulation to get a cheap laugh or manufacture a setup to a joke. Each entertaining tidbit grows from the characters, their lives, their struggles and their unforgivably shameless honesty. This is the story of growing up as the exception but learning to understand that if you’re lucky and have the right mix of crazy people in your life, being the exception can morph into being exceptional.
A witty, observant, deliciously satisfying autobiography.”
May 2010 Book of the Month
“Being fat isn’t your fault; staying fat is.” That’s what Jackie Warner, America’s favorite no-nonsense celebrity fitness trainer tells her own clients, and that’s why no one delivers better results than Jackie does. Now for the first time, Jackie shares her revolutionary program, showing readers the best ways to drop pounds and inches fast, without grueling workouts or deprivation, and keep them off for good! Her two-tiered approach provides a complete nutritional makeover and a failure-proof condensed workout routine PLUS all the emotional support and encouragement you need to get to the finish line and beyond. With Jackie’s core principles, you’ll discover once and for all which behaviors are making you fat, and which can finally make you thin forever-and some may surprise you!
“This is Why Your Fat”,
By: Jackie Warner
April’s Book of the Month
I will have to be honest i have barely finished “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang” so this book has been looked over but not dived into. Since I am not a big Sarah Silverman fan I knew I was taking a leap when I nominated this as book of the month. However, I feel life is full of so much drama & stress you need to insert laughter as much as possible. As I am strangely aware of Sarah’s disgusting sense of humor & out right racist jokes I was surprised to find she had a softer side. A sensitivity and sincerity that brought both the writing of the book and its glimpses behind the scenes into her personal life to a happy medium. No worries to hardcore Silverman fans….. Sarah approaches all the usual taboo topics with the same enthusiasm, whether it be the usage of racist lingo, sex, or the Holocaust. (Being a Jew herself it makes it ok in their world.) It seems “nothing is sacred” in the comedy that defines Silverman’s attitudes and, philosophically . In Silverman’s memoir, we discover where she acquired these traits. In talking about her parents, it’s very obvious that her adoration for her father is without doubt and that much of her humor comes from him. In a sub-chapter titled “The Only Reason I’m Not Completely Retarded,” Silverman discusses her admiration for her mother. This of course is not in the best taste for all audiences but for those that can take a joke you will love this book. I admit I am surprised by what a good read it is becoming & have to give credit where it’s due.
The Bedwetter ::: A -
The Book of the Month March 2010!!
Chelsea Bang Bang!!
CMB Review:
CMB: I currently own all three of Chelsea’s Books & have been a fan for as long as I can remember so lets keep it real for a moment. I am Bias but that won’t keep me from being honest. I don’t think she will ever top her first book, Are You There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea , really wasn’t a smash follow up. To the sex-capades of her first book. That book seemed hurried and thrown together, with the stories being FAR more outrageously unbelievable than the first attempt. What she seemed to lose focus of was that the first book had been so good because there was a believability in each of those stories. Both Bang Bang & Vodka have been clearly elaborately /concocted for the sake of the book ….. Read More Here!
This book has achieved a wonderful balance between the two, though you can see that Chelsea has adopted a life of being as outrageous as possible. But that’s ok, because it’s fairly entertaining. My favorite story has been of Dudley the bulldog, though many of the stories are funny and at the least entertaining. Don’t let the first story, an extensively long one that dragged on and on about childhood masturbation, fool you. Things do get better, and luckily you’re treated to a good story about her pursuit of a cabbage patch doll right after.
I find it harder and harder with each book to believe that her father actually exists! This was funny, and easy to read, and included some great pictures to prove the events really happened!
So pick it up!!!
The title pretty much says it all! The only thing we wonder is when it says “novel” does that indicate the entire book is fake? Lauren claims that the book has references to actual events & people she deals with in Hollywood. No matter if it’s fact or fiction. The title is cute, the cover is well played for a Valentines day release & we have no doubts tweens & 20 something ladies will have something new to enjoy during their commutes. So delight your sweet tooth with some of Conrad’s L.A. Candy available at borders & amazon.com!
