Miss Media

this was such a treat to read-- the characters are engaging, the writing is clever and terribly funny, and the satire is spot-on. i can't wait to start death by chick lit.

MISS MEDIA is a wonderful, crazy, and strangely moving book. As I read, I got so absorbed in the characters and so caught up in the twists & turns of the plot that I ACTUALLY READ PAST MY SUBWAY STOP! And the amazing thing was, I didn't care -- it meant I had time for a few more pages!!! IMHO, This is a great read!

I say shave your legs, throw a log on the fire, wriggle into your best shorty nightie, slip in between clean, crisp sheets, pull up a snuggly cover and savor this delicious novel. Personally, I have no fireplace and seldom launder my sheets but despite any evidence to the contrary I DO shave my legs, and anyone in any circumstace would be plumb loco (that's right, I said it, plumb loco) not to LOVE this book! (If aforementioned nighties and leg shaving references imply men won't like it, wrong inference. I just like inserting the word nightie into all my reviews.)A modern-day Dawn Powell, Ms. Harris' roman a clef eerily, cheerily captures the hope, hubris, insanity, inanity of the dot.com and women's media milieus. And whether your vantage point on that arcane era is as a weathered insider or unscathed voyeur, there's plenty o' suspense, romance and jaunty insights to keep this thinking (wo)man's pot boiler bubbling.

How can you not love a book that takes potshots at the authors of "The Canon" (the dating bible that tells women to dimwitted and hard to get) and "Xanax Planet" (the memoir of self-absorption and medication)? You don't need to be a girl who once toiled in "whoo hoo we're gonna change the world" dotcom hell to love Miss Media. But, uh, if you are, you will! Truthfully, anyone who's ever had to navigate a workplace full of smiling villains and cretins will get a kick out of this comic novel. And anyone who's ever had a crush, enjoyed a Breakup Girl column or hung out with a very witty girlfriend will like spending time with Lola Somerville. This book's so good, it should have a Ben & Jerry's flavor named after it.

In a literary fiction world that seems dominated by either down-on-their-lucky city princesses or anonymous White Man Angst, it's a true pleasure to read a funny, pugnacious, pointed satire about media madness, misbegotten role models, internet etiquette, big business, and the search for true love. Lynn Harris tells the fast and furious insider account of Lola Somerville (a woman you hope will be your best friend and condfidante), and her attempted road to success at a women's media empire that's more Death Star than North Star. The book is part roman a clef, part relationship guide, and part thriller, but most of all a true satire that captures the madness that was the Internet Bubble and the insanity that engulfed everyone who was a part of it -- and lived to tell the tale. Definitely grab this funny and refreshing novel, relish every last page, and share with friends!