Books I’m Excited About #4: “I’m Not the New Me” by Wendy McClure

Title: I’m Not the New Me: A Memoir

Author: Wendy McClure

Relationship: Touring buddies. Wendy and I are both on book tour this summer and have friends in common. So we started bonding by email and have had lunch in our respective cities. We’ve also geeked it up by wandering into bookstores and asking for each other’s books.

Synopsis: Comic memoir about attempts to lose weight

Acquired: Wendy’s publisher Riverhead sent me about 95,000 copies. Was it something I said?

Excitement: Author’s got talent coming out of her ears. I’ve been reading her blog for about a year now and would probably be entertained by her transcription of the phonebook.

Early Verdict: I’ve had my own issues with wieght loss and didn’t think it was a good attic to go digging around in while on a book tour. But we’re in the later weeks of Summer of Bookmark Now and I’ve been hanging with Wendy here in Chicago. I’ve been thinking that one is lucky to have funny, talented friends and their projects are cause for celebration. So I’m bumping this to the front of the line, for the downetimey fall.

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