{"id":426,"date":"2006-08-08T10:58:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T15:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/08\/08\/book-review-the-devil-wears-prada\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T16:55:55","slug":"book-review-the-devil-wears-prada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Devil Wears Prada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I know DWP<\/a> is not the height of literature but I’m a stay at home mom and I tend to read some pretty fluffy stuff. Theoretically this is a step up from my usual romance novels.<\/p>\n

This movie just came out and the preview looked cute so I thought I’d read the book to see what it was about. I was unprepared for the sheer number of pages of train wreck-ocity. I wanted to stop reading but just I couldn’t put it down. The main character floats into a job at a fashion magazine, is tortured extensively by the editor-in-chief and somehow loses her ability to make decisions until the end of the book when she suddenly realizes that she can quit and find another job. I didn’t like the unnatural focus on women’s appearance or the fact that the editor-in-chief had zero redeeming qualities other than her status as editor. There was a big section in the middle where I hated all the characters. That sounds like I didn’t like the book and for the most part, I’d say that’s pretty accurate.<\/p>\n

But despite all of that, there was something there that kept me turning pages. For one, Lauren Weisberger has a pretty good ear for conversation. She has some good scene construction. And it was funny, funny, funny maybe in some spots not how she intended it to be but I laughed anyway. And in the end the main character finds her spine and does something more positive with her life (like go and write a thinly-veiled novel account of her life).<\/p>\n

I loaned DWP to Jessica<\/a> so I’m anxious to hear her review of it. <\/p>\n

What I’m reading now and will review next: David Sederis’ Me Talk Pretty One Day.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I know DWP is not the height of literature but I’m a stay at home mom and I tend to read some pretty fluffy stuff. Theoretically this is a step up from my usual romance novels. This movie just came out and the preview looked cute so I thought I’d read the book to … Continue reading Book Review: The Devil Wears Prada<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t