Book Review: "Go The Fuck To Sleep"

Most kids enjoy a good bedtime story (or ten) to fall asleep to. Ah, those were the days... Well, when was the last time you saw a bedtime story aimed for grownups? Parents, specifically? Oh yes....that's where Go The Fuck To Sleep comes in. Beautifully illustrated, this book is just as much eye candy for the reader as it is filled with clever prose illustrating the frustrations of being a parent. You needn't actually have children to understand the humor; anyone who's so much as had to babysit a child even once will be able to appreciate this book. You needn't even head to the library to hear this fun little tale; just head on over to Youtube, where there's multiple celebrity readings of it. ;) Seriously though, this has got to be one of my new favorite things. Big five stars!

Book Review: "The Lolita Effect"

The Lolita Effect is basically a psychology/sociology book outlining the social fallacies surrounding the sexualization of girls today at younger and younger ages, fueled by the media perception, and yet all its implications seem to be lost on most people. This book outlines just how damaging this mindset is, as well as suggestions on how to help counter it. While by no means is it the end all cure for this problem, it's a good start. That said, most of the information in this book would have better fit as a website than a full book on the topic, where open discussions about the subject could be held. Nevertheless, it's sort of an interesting read if it's a hot-button topic with you. Rating this one 3 out of 5 stars.

Book Review: "Real Live Boyfriends (Yes, Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated--I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver)"

The fourth (and what I assume to be, final) book of the Ruby Oliver series, and I now retract my earlier statement -- this is my favorite book in the series. All is not well in paradise for Ruby with Noel, or so she thinks. He goes away during the summer to NYC to visit his brother, Claude, and comes back acting distant and weird towards Ruby. Naturally, her anxiety leads her to think the worst. The reality: far worse than she could have ever imagined.

There's much drama filling the covers of this book, and well-written drama at that. I really enjoyed it though, and I sailed through the entire book in two and a half days -- I just couldn't put it down, I had to know where all the twists and turns were leading to! I highly recommend this book if you've been reading the series, and am rating it a high 5 stars :)