My Fair Lazy
One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is the New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto
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4.3 • 101 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Readers have followed New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now, in this bitter and witty memoir, Jen chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment, with some hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration along the way.
Jen uses any means necessary on her quest to better herself: reading canonical literature, viewing classic films, attending the opera, researching artisan cheeses, and even enrolling in etiquette classes to improve her social graces.
In Jen’s corner is a crack team of experts, including Page Six socialites, gourmet chefs, an opera aficionado, and a master sommelier. She may discover that well-regarded, high-priced stinky cheese tastes exactly as bad as it smells, and that her love for Kraft American Singles is forever. But one thing’s for certain: Eliza Doolittle’s got nothing on Jen Lancaster—and failure is an option.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After embarrassing herself in front of her idol Candace Bushnell, popular memoirist Lancaster (Such a Pretty Fat, Bitter is the New Black) decides she needs more in her life than reality TV and hamburgers; to that end, she sets out on an Eliza Doolittle-esque project of cultural self-improvement to expand her knowledge of art, fine dining, and all the attendant trappings of "high class" life. Lancaster's latest will no doubt appeal to fans of her blog and her other books, but readers unfamiliar with her strident manner will have to get past her abrasive, initially judgmental fa ade; she puts on a proud display of her ignorance that can be off-putting, especially when couched in her excessively scattered writing style. Though she's unquestionably funny and comfortable in her own skin, for all the joking self-regard there's little actual exploration, and the analysis of what she does find doesn't go far beyond a sassy thumbs-up or thumbs-down.
Customer Reviews
Missing footnotes :(
Hilarious per usual but was a little disappointed I couldn't read the footnotes. Those are usually the best part!
My Fair Lazy
Jen has yet to let me down. Her storytelling keeps me up late at night and slightly groggy in the morning, but it's totally worth it! I bought two of her books on my I Pad and the one thing that hugely disappoints me is that the footnotes are at the end of the book. It would be nice to enjoy her peanut gallery thoughts as I am reading her books. So please, if this can be changed, I would re-read the books of hers I have in my library.
Jen-
Thanks for making me smile and laugh when I need it the most.
Kara Bjorkman
Footnotes
I haven't yet finished the book, but I too enjoy Jen Lancaster's use of footnotes in her writing... If you press the footnote number in the text, you jump to the footnote - if you press the number again in the footnote section, you jump back the page.
It was a little frustrating at first before I realized that, but I nearly didn't buy due to the other poster saying they were inaccessible. I didn't want anyone to miss out on Jen's new tome due to being an iBook newbie, like me!
...so far, I am enjoying it a great deal! Thanks Jen, keep up the good work!