false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255616055m/5093760.jpg 5093760 5 <B>The hardcover debut from the <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author— the prequel to <I>Bitter is the New Black</I>.</B><BR><BR>In <I>Pretty in Plaid</I>, Jen Lancaster reveals how she developed the hubris that perpetually gets her into trouble. Using fashion icons of her youth to tell her hilarious and insightful stories, readers will meet the girl she used to be.<BR><BR> Think Jen Lancaster was always “like David Sedaris with pearls and a super-cute handbag?” (Jennifer Coburn) Think again. She was a badge-hungry Junior Girl Scout with a knack for extortion, an aspiring sorority girl who didn’t know her Coach from her Louis Vuitton, and a budding executive who found herself bewildered by her first encounter with a fax machine. In this humorous and touching memoir, Jen Lancaster looks back on her life—and wardrobe—before bitter was the new black and shows us a young woman not so very different than the rest of us.<BR><BR> The author who showed us what it was like to wait in line at the unemployment office with a Prada bag, how living in the city can actually suck, and that losing weight <I>can</I> be fun with a trainer named Barbie and enough Ambien is ready to take you on a hilarious and heartwarming trip down memory lane in her shoes (and very pretty ones at that). 5160502 book 5 5 2009 Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomanical, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase total:1289|5:343|4:512|3:344|2:72|1:15| 1289 4967 2821 332 2 3 false false Sat Feb 28 14:45:22 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:51:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 20:05:12 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 20:09:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 19:02:29 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 19:03:04 -0700 2009
Which is why my dislike for her 4th book, Pretty in Plaid, is very disappointing.

As a side note: this was the first book I ever read o...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 20:46:36 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 20:47:17 -0700 2009 I've seen this book recommended by others, and after reading through her blog, it intrigued me all the more and I wanted to read the book. The next stop I made was to my library web site. Unfortunately, it was not there! So, I sent in a request to the library system to ...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat Jun 27 16:25:09 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 16:36:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 29 19:39:16 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 15:15:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 22:58:09 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 21:29:55 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 09:47:52 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 09:47:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 06:15:16 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 06:24:00 -0700 2009 Pretty in Plaid does not disappoint. She's as self-centered ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 16:30:48 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 15:52:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false true Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 12:06:30 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 06:52:49 -0700 2009
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I knock on my closest neighbors doors. first. Mrs. Schneider across the street obliges with a few boxes of Shortbread-excellent with tea, I remind h...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 00:01:06 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 20:57:59 -0700 2009 Such a Pretty Fat kept me so absorbed (and laughing hysterically) that I totally forgot I was sick and went out at nearly midnight in the snow (uphill both ways) to get her first two novels. After going through all that,...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 10:22:03 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 22:48:54 -0700 2009 UPDATE - Well, it did go by much quicker than...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 05:31:31 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 05:36:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 07:23:30 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 07:23:30 -0700 2009 I was ecstatic to get an ARC copy of PIP from a bookseller friend. Honestly, I was really disappointed with it. It just didn't have the same wit or feel. It took me weeks to force myself to finish. P...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 00:53:37 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 01:01:07 -0700 2009
I liked her other books, but this one was annoying. She writes about herself as a young girl like a Diablo Cody screenplay. I realize it's hard to look back at yourself objectively since w...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 14:57:35 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 04:14:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 00:22:44 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 00:07:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5093760