Name: Apocalipstick
ISBN: 9780440242963

Sue Margolis

Feisy, aspiring journalist Rebecca Fine struggles to make ends meet by writing a beauty column, while dealing with a Jewish dating service, her widowed father's engagement to an unpleasant classmate, and a sexy new coworker, until she discovers that the hot new anti-wrinkle cream is made of truth serum. Reprint.

Apocalipstick

Sarah Sammis

After a bunch of serious reading, I'm giving my poor brain a break and reading something completely stupid: Apocalipstick. The characters remind me of some of the folks from the series Ab-Fab. The protagonist isn't a stand-in for either Edina or Patsy but the people she works for do remind me of a hybrid of Edina and Patsy.

Apocalipstick isn't a book I would have picked by myself to read but it was recommended to me by a man who goes to the BookCrossing meetings on a regular basis. Ian has also read the book although it wasn't goofy enough for his tastes: he prefers the parody books like the Georgia Nicholson series by Louise Rennison. So far though, I'm enjoying Apocalipstick for its dysfunctional characters and artificially high stress work environment. It's rather funny to have a woman who thinks most beauty aids are crap working for a beauty magazine.

Apocalipstick

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