This is the first Jen Lancaster book I've read, though it's certainly not the first one she wrote. I love me a good memoir, especially ones with humor, so when a friend suggested I read a Jen Lancaster book, I decided to give it a go.
Jen Lancaster writes books that are sort of classified as "self-improvement memoirs;" that is, she pursues a self-improvement project for a while and writes a memoir on her experience in a very real, very funny way. This book, The Tao of Martha, involved Lancaster channeling the goddess that is Martha Stewart for an entire year.
I'm not disappointed that I read it, but it's not exactly what I was hoping for. I guess I was hoping to have more laugh-out-loud moments, and I definitely wasn't expecting the interwoven life-struggles stories. While I was expecting the book to be more Martha-experience centric, the personal (and at times dramatic) stories really do help to flesh out the memoir.
Through her year of channeling Martha, Lancaster has definitely outlined "The Tao of Martha," and it's definitely advice that the entirety of society should channel.
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