Jen-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Book
This book will chat your ear off, one gal pal to another. Arranged like  a high-spirited scrapbook of quips and rapidly dispensed disclosures,Jen-Xis somewhat of a  surprise. In this completely entertaining tell-all, Jenny McCarthy has indeed packaged herself as an open  book. This is a tale enamored neither by ambition or success; it's a BH/AH memoir--before and after Hollywood--sometimes raucous,  sometimes coolly self-assessing. It's loaded with brash magazine and MTV-style  graphics, cute pictures raided from the family album, and zany cartoons of friends, freaks, and phobias.Jenny McCarthy tells you about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, about  dropping out of college, about her breast implants at the age of 18 (&quot;I mean, isn't that the American dream? To purchase fine  new breasts on credit?&quot;). Her advice on dating (&quot;Rule #1: Fart immediately&quot;) is nothing if  not empirical; her lessons learned as a Playboy Bunny, candid without being self-pitying. She talks about her life with comic grit: &quot;Instead of becoming a campus honey, I was a bratwurst  queen who sold sausage sandwiches for minimum wage over the counter at a Polish delicatessen in the  same neighborhood where I grew up as a friendless geek. At nineteen, I'd already been turned down by every  modeling agency in Chicago....&quot; If McCarthy weren't a celebrity,Jen-Xwould still be worth  reading. It's pop culture chronicled through the eyes of a Gen-Xer--fresh, self-deprecating, and silly,  like a fun-house mirror.