This book takes a while to get into becuase it is exactly what the title suggests which is a spoiled female (Jen) who loses her job and doeesn't know what to do with herself becuase she then can't afford her designer accessories and expensive salon days. Then her boyfriend loses his job and they have to move out of their exorbitantly priced apartment with teh private roof deck, etc. But once you get past all of that annoyingness it is actually a very pleasant and humorous read. I enjoyed the dynamics of their relationship (and the fact that they got married so she could get her parents car!) and I enjoyed seeing how they were able to support each other and find the humor in their situation even at the worst of times. Jen warmed up to me when it didn't even take a second thought for her to sell every single designer piece she had the second she found out her husband had stopped taking his depression medicine (and this is just an example, they were without an incoem for easily a year and they got to the bottom of the barrel).
I think my favorite thing about the book though was that Jen never ever stopped being herself through it all. When she got really bored and frustrated she created her own website and started ripping on the companies that were denying her positions. She had posts about dumbing down her resumes, the hippies living below, everything. Well written and humurous (unique with the use of footnotes). A good beach read.
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