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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Author: Jen Lancaster

ISBN-10: 045122986X

ISBN-13: 9780451229861

Category: Women's Biography

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The spirit of Jen Lancaster's books is broadcast loud and clear in their titles: Such a Pretty Fat; Bright Lights, Big Ass; Pretty in Plaid; Bitter Is the New Black; and now My Fair Lazy. Each of these hilarious confessionals follows Jen as she wrestles awkwardly with various aspects of modern civilization; in the most recent case, high culture and fine cuisine. Lancaster is anything but lazy though in her pursuit of enlightenment: She reads great books, immerses herself in film classics, sits through operatic masterpieces, enrolls in an etiquette class and chomps on five-star cheese. Never once, however, does she lose her sense of wit. A hybrid of chick lit and stand-up. 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 façade; 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. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.