The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

by Melissa Bank
Sandy's book #13

This totally quenched my thirst for good chick lit. (It's not about shopping and it doesn't have a pink cover, but make no mistake-- it's for girls' eyes only.) Carrie, you told me to read this like, years ago. I dug it like you knew I would.

My only qualm is with the character of Archie Knox (the narrator's much-older boyfriend), who I kept picturing as Ian McKellan. Love him, except that-- in my head-- this character looked and sounded g-a-y. So then I finished the book and looked on imdb (because I know they're making a movie out of it), and who is playing Archie but Alec fucking Baldwin. Ew. WORSE, Buffy was cast as the narrator, "Jane" (whom they've apparently renamed "Brett" of all things.) That led me to check the cast list of The Lovely Bones (another popular chick book I dug) and lo! Dakota Frightening is rumored to have been cast as Susie. Arghh! Kal Penn better not disappoint in The Namesake. The problem with liking books is that you start hating movies. I guess I'm turning into my mother after all.