I picked this book at Target almost on a whim, I'd never spoken with anyone who had read it and wanted to do so before I saw the movie that was based on it...

Ugh, what a tedious read this thing was, but I'm getting ahead of myself... I have no doubt that at this point you've heard all kinds of buzz about this book and the movie of the same name and you probably know why this book was supposed to be such a "devilish delight"... The book's author Lauren Weisberger spent some time as an assistant to Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue magazine. She clearly thought it was a nightmare and decided to chronicle this in a book.

Now, of course she couldn't come right out and write a tell all about her time at Vogue, but as thinly veiled as this puppy is, she might as well have. Anna, I mean Miranda is a big ol' meanie to those beneath her and since she thinks everyone is beneath her, everyone suffers. Especially Andrea, a recent Brown college graduate who wants more than anything to write for The New Yorker and decides that the fastest way to get there is to spend a year working for the most loved and hated woman in fashion at Vogue, I mean Runway.

From the moment this thing starts to the moment this thing ends, and let me be honest with you I thought it never would, we get treated to Andrea whining, complaining, hating, bitching, moaning and consistently insinuating that she's above this yet beneath it. I suppose it could just be that I'm not the type of person who would ever sacrifice her personal happiness for a job or it could be that I wouldn't find it shocking that a woman who works in fashion would eat, sleep and breathe fashion. It could also be that after reading story after story about how evil Anna, I mean Miranda was (she doesn't hang up her coat, she never says thank you, she wants errands run, the horror the horror) I was waiting for it to pick up the pace and get exciting or interesting... And then I just wanted it to end and when it did I was thrilled. It's not that it's a terrible book. I'm sure the right person would devour it and find it fascinating, but as someone who reads all the gossip, fashion and style magazines learning that Anna, I mean Miranda is a force to be dealt with wasn't exactly scintillating. I was expecting a whole lot more than this book delivered but hopefully someone out there will enjoy it...

Good luck and God Speed little book.

(PS: It's not even like I like Anna either, I loath her stance on fur... That still didn't help.)

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