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Welcome to the first meeting of Socialite Life’s Celebrity Book Club, where the martini glasses are always topped off and you don’t have to pretend you read the book. No need to give up an hour of your weekend to listen to your neighbor drone on about the interesting layers of subtext. We provide the material and you shout out your thoughts in the comments section.
We launch CBC with an author after our own heart, the vodka loving Chelsea Handler. Her first two books, Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea (check out the crowd at that book singing) and My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands were absolutely hysterical and word is this one is just as funny. If you’ve seen her show or just watched this clip you know she’s quick at serving up no-holding-back one liners. The same goes for her stories about growing up.
Here’s an excerpt:
I was eight years old and well into the third grade at Riker Hill Elementary School when I fell head over heels in love with myself. What can only be described as the “cornerstone of my youth” came unexpectedly out of left field and washed over me like a Category 5 cyclone. Not enough to drown me completely, but enough for me to loose my footing and knock me on my supple eight-year-old ass.
A friend of mine named Stacy Silverberg invited me to a sleep over party at her house, where she was going to teach everyone how to get “the feeling.” I had never heard of “the feeling” before, but it was definitely something that piqued my interest. Reason led me to assume it had something to do with either a Smurf or a Cabbage Patch Kid, both of varying appeal.
When I got to Stacy’s house, her Jamaican housekeeper, Margaret-or, as I liked to call her, M-Dawg-let me in. Stacy’s parents were always out on the town, and her house was always spotless, which was a nice respite from the doughnut-stained, dog-hair-covered sofas my parents tried to pass off as sanitary.
-Excerpted from Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler, published by Grand Central Publishing, March 2010.
To read more of the first chapter check out Amazon
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Chelsea Fan | March 14, 2010 at 9:31 pm
I love Chelsea Handler! The excerpt looks hysterical.