The Catcher in the Rye...or something.

So my sister Sally got engaged. It's really quite a relief to all of us because now we don't have to listen to her constantly dropping hints to her boyfriend. And basically dropping hints to EVERYONE. And maybe (hopefully) we won't have to listen to that goddamn Train song "Marry Me" anymore. We can only hope.

So we have been trying to get her to read "The Catcher in the Rye", and she has been hesitant because the author of it isn't Nora Roberts. Because J.D. Salinger doesn't have SHIT for brains. I knew it wasn't her cup of tea because it doesn't involve the corniest love story ever. The only books Sally reads are by the following authors: Kristin Hannah, Nora Roberts, Jodi Piccoult, Elin Hildebrand, and who could forget, Jennifer Weiner. I'm not saying that the books she reads are stupid, I'm just saying that whoever reads them has fluff where a brain should be. So she took a huge chance and decided to read an actual BOOK. She was probably mad because the book didn't consist of a girl falling in love with a guy and then breaking up with him and then getting back together and then THE END.

That's how every book by the authors I just listed above goes. That's the storyline of each book by those authors. Oh, excuse me Sally, "The Catcher in the Rye" isn't as intelligent as Jennifer Weiner's latest book. Give me a break. She's just mad that it didn't consist of a girl falling in love with a guy who wears too many tweed jackets and Harry Potter glasses and is a high school English teacher who is secretly a ROCK HARD pornstar in the bedroom. This is from one of Nora Roberts' books that I've actually read before but can't remember the title of it on account of THEY ARE ALL THE SAME.

While on the subject, I went out and bought the corniest sounding book for Sally's birthday. Turns out, she has already read it. Go figure. Maybe I should have bought her a real book, such as "The Great Gatsby". But then she would just be like "who in god's name is F. Scott Fitzgerald?!"

and then I would have socked her one.

-Jenny