Has anyone tried that online store The Book Depository? Every time I google a book it is like the first listing there is of it, and usually for the cheapest price on the web (is it just me or is Ebay actual crap for books now?). Whilst I was sick, and bored, I decided to get a few books to cheer me up. I obviously didn’t account for that fact they probably wouldn’t arrive till I was all better but the act of buying something was enough to perk me up. I purchased them all, in three separate transactions (that’s how I roll, nah actually it was just cause I kept thinking of new books after I finished placing the order for the last) from The Book Depository. It took a while, five whole days to be exact, but they arrived neatly packaged with complimentary bookmarks!
What I love about this selection of books is that they are all those so sickeningly chicky! Like, embarrassingly so. I couldn’t help but write this post as I think it’s hilarious that this is what I ordered. If any of my male friends read this I may just dieeee, although in all honestly I doubt they’d be that surprised.. The first book I purchased was Why Men Love Bitches, which my blogging twin Katie Snooks recommended to me. I love Katie Snooks, we are almost exactly the same height, and she inspires me to only be friends with people of that height as it’s sooo much fun! We say we’re twins but actually more like inverse twins as she’s blond and pale and I’m a brunette with dark skin, so very inverse! Except for the height. So Katie says I will love this, and I am looking forward to reading it.
About ten minutes later after placing an order for the first book I decided to buy Getting Into The Vortex, which is a meditation CD really. I’ve read a couple of books by its author Esther and Jerry Hicks and have enjoyed them aplenty (they specialise in Law of Attraction stuff), so this seemed like a good investment. I’m a big positive thinker and tend to think (possibly somewhat naively) that nothing is out of my grasp. One of my favourite quotes (alongside Dolly Partons’ ‘It costs a lot of money to look this cheap’) is ‘Whether you think you can do a thing, or you think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.’.. At the very least it may chill me out somewhat, being naturally highly strung!
Lastly, I bought Sweet Valley Confidential. Yes, Sweet Valley High but ten years on. I’ve been quite clever with my reasoning for buying this, or ‘allowing’ myself too I should say. I decided instead of buying my sister a birthday card this year, I’d get her this, and write a message on the inside, as a lil’ joke, like, ‘Hey sis, ha, remember when we used to read these! Happy birthday!’. But OBVIOUSLY I’m totes reading it before I give it to her!!! I’ve been waiting a long time to see what those Wakefield twins with oval faces and perfect size six figures have been up to (controversially they are now size 4!!). I can tell you now, I’m Team Jessica all the way. The reviews have been dismal for this and I will probably wish I could take back the hours of my life spent reading it but I really need to know what happens.
To even out all the trash and stereotypical girly pukiness, here is another book I purchased fairly recently (although not from The Book Depository). It’s called Girls to the Front and is all about the Riot Grrl movement is the late 80′s/90′s (of which I’m kinda obsessed with). I think I’m gonna cover this book in a separate post as it really deserves it. But one thing I will say now – apparently I’m not a real Riot Grrrl because I slut shame. WHATEV, always have and always will (in the nicest, least bitter way possible, honest)..
Books covered:
Why Men Love Bitches – Sherry Argov
Getting into the Vortex – Esther and Jerry Hicks
Sweet Valley Confidential – Francine Pascal
Girls to the Front – Sara Marcus
What’s your literary guilty pleasure?
Lx
P.S. Just to clarify, I did not just buy my sister a crappy Sweet Valley High book as her 35th birthday present, it was in place of a card.. FYI, Me and the fam all grouped together and bought her some Gucci specs. 
DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated with The Book Depository or being paid for this post, blah blah blah…
