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View submission: Drop Everything And Read: Week 1
Day 2 (replying to my Day 1 comment to keep everything together)
Date: 23 March 2018
Time: 11:30am to 11:50am
Book: Your Beauty Mark by Dita Von-Teese
Finally finished this! Zoomed through the rest of the book while FIL played with kidlet this morning. It's an okay book, around 3/5 stars. There were a lot of photo tutorials, and she's pretty as a picture posing gamely in each, but I couldn't help but wish there were video tutorials instead. What I was hoping for, her backstage secrets, were sprinkled among the guest interviews and the beauty basics and history, so sometimes I got bored. This would be good for someone who is just starting out with makeup (maybe late teens, early twenties) and is looking for a celebrity big sister figure for guidance. As beauty bibles / memoirs go, I prefer Sali Hughes and Lisa Eldridge. But if you are a Dita fan then this is a wonderful collection of her photos.
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Time: 5:15pm to 5:30pm
Book: Scrooge #Worstgiftever by Brett Wright, Charles Dickens
Quick read to kill off a book while in-laws brought kidlet to the supermarket. I previously enjoyed some books in this series called "OMG Shakespeare", which tries to millennialize classics by re-telling it with emoji, acronyms, and social media. I really liked the Pride and Prejudice one (*Darcy Swipes Left*), and the Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet ones were okay. However, the quality is inconsistent across the series. Of the two authors, I noticed that I preferred the ones written by Courtney Carbone. The style of this Mr. Wright, unfortunately, falls flat. The humor is a little corny, and especially in this one, I felt like rolling my eyes and groaning at the dad-level kind of jokes. I don't recommend this book, but do check out *Darcy Swipes Left* and *srsly Hamlet*, which seem more realistically Gen Z in feel, while managing to retain some of the wit of the original books. I might try *Macbeth #killingit* next.
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