I know it's not her most recent book that I'm pimping here, and I'm sure I will love Moose (her latest) just as much, but when I think about coming home to snuggle up with someone in bed lately it isn't a man, it's Stephanie Klein.
Recently, at the store, someone asked me to recommend a book that would make a friend of hers laugh. The friend was going through a serious breakup that had occurred the day before her birthday. Bummer. I wish I could go back in time and press Straight Up and Dirty into her hands and say "This will help." Instead, using my own broken-up status, I had given her something where the title had made me smile, but not necessarily the writing.
The writing in this book gives me a literary hard-on. It is not just the honesty touted on the cover by every critic that blurbs it. It is the clever yet effortless delivery of terms like slingshot (for thong panties) and wasband (of course he isn't an e-husband- perfect). She is able to articulate things perfectly that it never occurred to me to comment on. She's the daring one who goes the extra mile. It will keep you reading, I assure you.
I have been waiting all day to crawl into jammies and keep reading myself. Thank you, Stephanie, for making the painful destruction of a relationship that never lived up to my hopes feel funny and like it's going to get better. My life is improved from your writing. I am so glad I heard you speak at BlogHer and was inspired to bring this tasty little book home. I hope others do the same.
image: Stephanie Klein at BlogHer closing keynote by Hyku via flickr.
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