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Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang is the newest book by Chelsea Handler. I have to say I really like Handler a lot. I tend to fall asleep with her show on these days. I like that she is a strong female and has such confidence in herself. Sometimes I find her jokes to take it a bit too far and sometimes she is a bit too vulgar for my own taste. That said though if she were a man no one would think twice of her vulgarity so I tend to keep that in mind and continue to be a fan of hers even when I don't necessarily like everything she does/says.

I first fell for Handler a few summers ago when her first book My Horizontal Life The book appealed to me because of the original concept and because I didn't think anyone could seriously write an entire book on his or her one night stands. Handler not only wrote an entire book on her one night stands, but she wrote a hysterical memoir on an unusual concept. It was easy to relate to the book even if the reader couldn't fill the book the same way. Ex's and friends stories seemed evident in the chapters.

Her next book, Are you there Vodka? It's me Chelsea was also good but not quite as good as her first book. At his point she was also on TV and I was getting my fix weekly so perhaps that contributed. I still liked this book a lot though which is why I was looking forward to a third book.

I hate to say this, but the newest book was pretty disappointing. I'm almost at the point where I don't know how much of what she writes is for comedic affect and how much is actually true. Either way the newest book didn't really have any flow. I enjoyed most of the stories but it seemed a bit forced. It seemed as though she felt she had to put out a third book and they couldn't come up with a real concept so they threw a bunch of stuff together and bound it.

I'm still a big fan of Chelsea Handler, really wish I could see her live sometime, but I hope if she does put out a forth book she goes back to her old creative energy instead of this newer busy and lacking energy.

Current Read: Perfect Fifth's by Megan McCafferty

Fourth is the Worst

Fourth Comings by Megan McCafferty is the fourth book in the Jessica Darling series. So far my least favorite and I'm kinda glad to almost be done with this series. Jessica's boyfriend proposes to her and the book is about the week after while she decides what answer to give. It's another journal style book but written to the boyfriend to capture the past few months and current week and reasons she gives for her answer.

If you want to read the book stop reading here...

The only good part was that she doesn't end up saying yes. The character is a strong feminist in the first three books and not that feminists can't get married but it would have been very disappointing if after three books of her commitment to herself and her dreams to realize she gave them all up to move away and marry a boy.


That's really all the time I want to spend capturing the book.

Current Read: Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler