From The Outside Looking In

Actresses who write : that's a different subgenre. Joan Collins, Paris Hilton, one of those girls from The Hills. I am sure there are many more. Now you can add Courtney-Thorne Smith to that list. This book was released in 2007, and I have had this ARC since around that time. I remember getting it at the dollar carts in The Strand.  I also remember starting to read this book and here we are, almost four years later and I finally finished it. Believe you me, I have tried numerous times just throwing it away, but the anal retentive in me just wants to finish it. Plus, I always keep on hearing Maya Angelou telling people "just read" when one is tempted to abando a book. "Outside In" is about an actress who is on a nighttime soap. So in my mind this character is Courtney herself, and the show is Melrose Place. I think when she was promoting this book she was talking about how a lot of actresses starve themselves for the camera. That would have been a more interesting topic to read about than this book about an insecure actress. What we get is a badly-written (like grammatically bad)  run-of-the mill chick lit. Kate, the character, is just so pathetic and dumb that you wonder how she became as successful as she was in the book. I can not remember how many times I rolled my eyes, and I just wanted to smack her. This went on and on up to about 80% of the book that I kept on asking myself - is this going to end? Why would you want to spend your time with such a sad sack?  I always say that I always take something, a little something from a book I read and the only thing I could think of here is I wanted to explore more the life of Vivian Leigh because they kept on talking about how she had a dramatic life.  Besides that, there's not much to take from this book.