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LAAAAAUUUREEEEEEN! *shakes fist ala Steven Colbert*
Do you know what I've done for the last 3 1/2 hours? I sat down and I read. And I read. At one point, I got up to use the bathroom before making a stop in the kitchen - and decided that food could wait. And I went back to my book. In my little reading nook which I haven't used in far too long, despite not having turned down the A/C (the chair is right next to the unit). At the start of my book, I had a beer that I only managed to drink by flailing around blindly with one hand as I was far too engrossed with the book in my other hand to bother looking up for it.
Surprisingly, I'm not talking about my normal reads. It's not a fantasy, horror or, god forbid, even those rare romances that sneak their way into my hands.
Nope, it's a book that was cheerfully pushed on me by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
incandescently - Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim. If people can find me more hilariously and well written auto-biographies, I will take them! I haven't read one so well written in, well, a very long time.
It's an amazing, hilarious, touching and, at times, heart breaking read. She does talk about being a victim of child abuse - it's horrific, as it should be, but never graphic.
I watched this show (on reruns) when I was a kid and, like most people, hated Nellie. But now I think I'll be looking at her with some fresh perspective.
Also: the real bitch on the show wasn't Alison Arngrim who played the meanest character. ;)
So yes, thanks Lauren, for being the book pimp. I haven't lost an evening with my nose in a book in so very long and I didn't know how much I really missed it.
Surprisingly, I'm not talking about my normal reads. It's not a fantasy, horror or, god forbid, even those rare romances that sneak their way into my hands.
Nope, it's a book that was cheerfully pushed on me by
incandescently - Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim. If people can find me more hilariously and well written auto-biographies, I will take them! I haven't read one so well written in, well, a very long time.It's an amazing, hilarious, touching and, at times, heart breaking read. She does talk about being a victim of child abuse - it's horrific, as it should be, but never graphic.
I watched this show (on reruns) when I was a kid and, like most people, hated Nellie. But now I think I'll be looking at her with some fresh perspective.
Also: the real bitch on the show wasn't Alison Arngrim who played the meanest character. ;)
So yes, thanks Lauren, for being the book pimp. I haven't lost an evening with my nose in a book in so very long and I didn't know how much I really missed it.