Happy Top Ten Tuesday! Today’s theme is books I can’t believe I read which honestly seems a bit mean… So rather than rattling off titles and posting covers, I’m following in the footsteps of blind items and describing the books rather than naming them.
- A book about a group of women who are all sleeping with each other’s husbands. While their lives are falling apart, they do things like break for a leisurely dinner or a stroll through the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
- A celebrity memoir that focuses more on the embarrassing details of said celebrity’s children than anything else. Was a chapter dedicated to her teen daughter’s bra size really necessary?
- A book about a strong, independent woman who hooks up with her boss – except the woman is neither strong nor independent, her boss acts like a literal child, and the author tried to write erotica but the sex scenes came across as very clinical and cold.
- An erotic novel which was basically just the main character reading the author’s other works and getting turned on by them. I mean, yikes.
- A musician romance! But it’s really just about a rockstar going to rehab and having a lot of sex with his counselor.
- A book about a girl who is legitimately named Starshine, who laments the fact that every single man in New York City is in love with her.
- A cookbook that’s advertised as having “no rules,” that actually is just a book of rules? The biggest rule being to throw away everything in your kitchen because it’s trash. All of your food. Your dishes and utensils. Even your cookware. Literally everything.
- A romance in which a girl and her brother-in-law start having sex – and then randomly get married because how else could you even end this trainwreck of a book?
- A Pride and Prejudice retelling in which both characters are in relationships with other people and have hate sex because why not.
- A book about middle-aged white men who are never satisfied with their awesome lives, or, basically, every day in the waiting room of the wealthy suburban doctor’s office I work in.