Reality Matters: 19 Writers Come Clean About the Shows We Can't Stop Watching

Title: Reality Matters: 19 Writers Come Clean About the Shows We Can't Stop Watching

Author: Mixed

Genre: Non-Fiction, Essays

Time: 2.8 hours

Rating: 4 out of 10

here's a short description of the book in goodreads.

When I got this book, I thought it was another Anna David novel.  When I read her novel Bought, I loved it so much that I've been looking for her other books ever since.  But as I started reading this book, I realized that it's basically essays written by different writers (Anna David being one of them) about Reality TV shows.  So I thought to myself, well, this could be interesting.  I have, more often than I would like to admit, wasted a whole afternoon, a whole evening and even a whole day, of binge watching these kind of shows.  Sometimes I enjoy certain shows so much that I would waited patiently each week for new episodes.

So what do I think of this book?.. meh.. I thought I'd enjoy it since one of my biggest guilty pleasures is watching "reality TV"--Ambush Make Over, Cheaters, Toddlers and Tiaras, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Jersey Shore, Little Women LA, Dog Whisperer, How Do I Look?, ANTM, Project Runway, Tyler Hollywood Medium, The Osbournes, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Pretty Wild. the list could go on and on.. but unfortunately, of the 18 Reality Shows covered in the essays, I've only watched 3 of them coz most of them are not shown where I live. So I couldn't really relate to them.  Or is it perhaps the shows I shows I watch are more low brow?

So I'm giving this a low score, not because it's not well written, but because I just couldn't connect with the topic.

Book Haul

It's been months since I last read a book.  It's sooo not me.  I am always reading a book.  Maybe I put too much pressure on reaching a target number of books to read per year.. maybe I just couldn't connect with any of the new books I found.. maybe life just happened.. I don't know.. But I figured, I'll just go with the flow and I'll eventually want to start to read again.

And so today, for some reason, I wondered if any of my favorite authors have new books published.  So I checked.  Lo and behold! New books from J. D. Robb, Sophie Kinsella, Gillian Flynn, William Landay, Liane Moriarty and I even managed to find copies of Anna David's book which I have been looking for since forever!

I hope I get my reading groove back on.  We'll see in a couple of days.

Book Haul

Got a lot of new books... a few from fave authors, most from new ones.. I wanted to put a collage of all the book titles but it totaled to 66 books so I decided against it because with that number of books, the covers might not be very visible anymore... but mainly it's because I felt too lazy to do it..

I'll just tell you who the authors are... So I found new ones from J.D. Robb (she released like 3 books in 6 months..she is very prolific and I'm glad coz I miss Dallas and Peabody), Judy Blume, Anna David and Beatriz Williams...

I am also testing out Mary Kay Andrews, Bethany Chase, Bill Clegg, Laura Dave, Patrick DeWitt, Jane Green, Patti Callahan Henry, Steena Holmes, Emily Liebert, MJ Pullen and Renee Rosen...

Boy am I glad that I'm reading for fun now instead of doing the book challenge... can't wait to start reading...

Party Girl

Book # 19: Party Girl by Anna David

Book Hunt: Anna David

Now that I have read half of the books I just bought, I'm searching for ebooks I can read once I blow through the other half... I'm looking for the other book by Anna David since I loved the Bought book she wrote... Turns out, she has two other books I haven't read yet... hopefully I can find free ebook copies of these :D

Bought by Anna David

book # 16 -- Bought by Anna David.

Wow.  This book was great.  I read it with low expectations as I had quite a few disappointments when trying out new authors.  This was something else, kinda reminds me of the way Jackie Collins writes--she really transported me to that world.  Although the ending left me wanting closure for the characters, but I think that was the whole point.  There is no epilogue which ties everything into a neat, pretty bow because life is not that way and it ties in to the way the novel was written: gritty and real.  

This isn't a Sophie Kinsella novel where everyone gets what's coming to them in the end, but not exactly like a Jackie Collins one either where the bad guy (or girl) dies in the end.  It left me hanging but left it open for me to imagine the possibilities of how the characters would continue on  Too bad this author has only started to write fairly recently, I would have loved to scour for the previous books she has written and read those too... but she has only written another one, Party Girl, so I guess I'm looking for just one book for now..