My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler - Reshelved Books

Hello Dewey Readers!

It's audiobook review time! So I started listening to Chelsea Handler's audiobook My Horizontal Life via Libby.  Libby is an audiobook app by Overdrive.  It allows you to access

millions of e-books and e-audiobooks on your device with the simple one-time input of your library card number.  

So to preface this review.  If you read our post Audiobooks vs. Print Books, you know that I have a further commute to work now which means that I'm listening to audiobooks when I don't feel like participating in solo car karaoke.  

But I have some rules to follow when it comes to choosing audiobooks:

1. They can be no longer than 6 hours (I can't commit to weeks of the same book)
2. They should be non-fiction read by the author (humor is a plus) 
3. If fiction, they have to be short, and are usually for my Read It & Eat book club at work

This book fit into categories 1 & 2, and added a bonus point because I frequent Handler's hometown.  

I'm not a fan of comedy, and I know that Handler can be a little risque, but I really enjoyed this book.  I liked Handler's voice, her tone of sarcasm, and how she used the unreliable narrator element in telling her stories cohesively throughout.  I thought the book was really well done, and that by listening to the audiobook instead of reading the print version I developed a connection to Handler that would have been otherwise missed.

So Dewey Readers, I leave you with a rating of 5 out of 5 Coffee Beans in a travel mug.

Until the next read!

~Jessica    

I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella

Hello everyone! I'm offering you a quick review on Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serrritella's latest novel and mother-daughter series. 

I love Lisa and Francesca's books.  They are funny.  They are witty.  And they are absoutely and 100% what I look forward to every summer.

Can we take a minute to look at the title of their latest "chick-wit" book?

I Need a Life Guard Everywhere but the Pool

Isn't it just... awesome?  It's true, it's quirky, it's funny... And I LOVE it.  

So, for those of you who aren't familiar, Lisa Scottoline, who normally is known for her thrillers, collaborates with her daughter on a series they call "chick-wit." This chick-wit consist of short little blurbs about life, womanhood, and the mother-daughter relationship.  They are light, they are airy, and they are just wonderful.    

This book in particular focuses on life and learning how to become your own lifeguard.  To me, this book in particular focused a bit to heavily on the 2017 Presidential Election.  Scottoline and Serritella do not disclose who their candidate was or what political party they are affiliated with, but I have an inkling as to which way they sway.  For me, the focus on the election sort of lowered my rating of the book (if this were a longer review, it would be 4.5 or 4 coffee beans instead of 5).  However, the election was such a large and controversial part of this year, that it's only natural that it's a large part of this year's chick-wit. 

Over all I absolutely love this mother-daughter team.  Definitely check out this book or one of their other chick-wit books this summer!  You will NOT be disappointed! 

     

Aren't they fun!?