Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Mindy Kaling’s book is hilarious and actually inspired me to give The Office (US) another chance. I’m a huge fan of celebrity memoir-ish books, so this fulfilled a need I have to live vicariously through famous people. I definitely recommend picking it up.
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Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder Book 1 by Jo Nesbø
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Title: Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder
Author: Jo Nesbø
Series: Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder
Published: 2007 (Norway); 2010 (US)
I picked up this book at work and loved it a lot! While, yes, it’s about farting and childish humour it’s really smartly written and quite engaging. I definitely recommend it to readers of all ages!
Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Title: Bad Girls Don’t Die
Author: Katie Alender
Published: 2009
Series: Bad Girls Don’t Die
I’m going to get my major pet peeve with this novel out of the way, so I can talk about all of the things I really liked about it: multiple personalities are not a part of schizophrenia, so page 189 making that allusion threw me out of the story for a bit. I also don’t know if I like how that part of the storyline wrapped up in the end, but I’m not going to crusade against the novel because of this pet peeve. As my partner reminded me, it’s not something that the Joe Average Reader would pick up on.
I may be bringing up this novel in the child abnormal psychology course I’ll be taking at university this fall to see if any of my classmates have read it and what they felt about it if we end up talking about how mental illness is portrayed in popular culture.
That said, I really liked the novel. Once I started reading it, I was engaged for 80% of my reading. I could relate to nearly all of the characters and found myself really intrigued by how classic this modern thriller felt.
I cannot wait to get book two in the series and continue reading Alender’s work.
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