Wicked Slow Read Along Review - Stupid and Contagious (pages 1-50)

I'm on Page 50 of Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane.  This book is so funny, I don’t even know where to start.

Heaven is something else.  She’s sarcastic and cynical, and when we first meet her, she’s bitching about her husband who is cheating on her with his secretary.  Or something like that.  Only he’s not.  Because she doesn’t have a husband.  Or a boyfriend.  But she’s pretending that she does and he is, just to be prepared.  As a mental exercise, I guess.  We caught her in the middle of it.

We meet Brady next, as he’s getting on the plane after a South by Southwest music festival.  I thought it was hilarious as he’s sitting there in the window seat, watching and going on about the people on the plane with him, in his head, as he waits with his fingers crossed that nobody will take the aisle seat.  He doesn’t want to get stuck with his window seat, just in case he has to pee.  His whole inner rant is just… well, it’s familiar.

Both of these characters sound like they’re my generation.  Like 90’s slacker teens.  Heaven says she's 25, but she could by lying.  You never know.

I’ve seen this book before and, even though Nirvana lyrics as a song title would normally win me over, I didn’t run out and get it or anything.  I do follow Caprice Crane on Facebook and her status updates are hilarious, so when I saw this book in the store, I grabbed it.  I knew I’d love it by page 11, when Heaven mentions G.E. Smith, formerly of the Saturday Night Live Band, and describes him exactly the same way I have always thought of him.  That won me over.

Heaven has been recently fired from her dream job as a PR exec, after a mistake that involved pissing off a particularly tattooed drummer from a certain 80’s band, who is now known for something else entirely, and now she‘s a bad waitress.  Brady, a wannabe music producer on a trust fund from his inventor uncle, has just been kicked out of his apartment by a psycho ex-girlfriend.  He and Heaven don’t know each other.  Yet.

I just reached the part of the book where the two characters intersect, so to speak.  Only, they have had an encounter or two without knowing it, and I’m wondering when they will finally meet.  Will they get together?  I think they’d be hilarious together, they’re both so smart-alecky.  I see many comical and entertaining arguments in their future.  Will they get together?  Will they hate each other?  What will they do when each of them realize who the other is?  They didn’t exactly start off on the right foot… and What about psycho Sarah?

My rating so far:  Totally my kind of book = LMAO funny.  Can't wait to see how it plays out.

You can see my Teaser Tuesday post for Stupid and Contagious here.

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