What I'm Reading Now

  How Did You Get This Number? by Sloane Crosley
These essays, written by someone much younger and cooler than I am, are quite funny.  It’s an impulse read - I happened to see it on the New Releases shelf at the library.  And now that I’m dumbing myself down after all this time spent on the Internet, it’s the perfect time-waster.  In any case, I enjoyed the author’s keen and amusing observations on life in NYC.

For some reason, the haters are out in full force for this book.  On certain websites (I’m talking to you, Good Reads) the reviewers (almost entirely female) seem really angry or offended by this book - it’s NOT funny, it’s NOT as good as her first book, it’s stupid, etc.  What’s with the invective?  Is it because she’s a young, attractive, privileged New Yorker?  Maybe because I am a middle-aged, less attractive Seattlite I am not getting all the antipathy.