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The Broke Diaries
by msjae


Villard Books; April 2001
by Angela Nissel

The mostly entirely true adventures of one broke-ass girl.

There's lots of good to say about this little wonder, which I won't say, because saying good things about books is my job, and this is for fun, but there are only two reasons I am posting this, really:

Uno Because it is 2:05 AM, and I am still awake because I had to finish the whole thing, and this after getting totally and utterly busted by my boss for showing up late to work three times last week, and again on Monday, and that ought to count for something, if you consider that reading this book might be worth getting in deep ravioli for.

Three It is the $9.95-per-copy, trade paperback, major-international-publishing-house, it-really-can-happen, book debut of someone who basically kept a diary on her web page of all the crazy shit that happened to her, and she happened to be a genius writer, and it happened to get noticed, and it happened to be funny and hip and cool and great, and dammit, it can happen to you, and sometimes the good guys DO win, and you, yes YOU, might be the good guys, ya know?

I will note, on the author bio nature of things, that Angela is cofounder of okayplayer.com a hip-n-hop-n-soul-groove-nation type net community, which I checked out solely because she was involved, and if you are into that thing, then it is probbly worth your time, l'il bros.

Lola