Little Miss Basic: A Parody (Little Miss and Mr. ME ME ME) Paperback – October 6, 2015

Beyond clever.

I gave this as a gift, and my teenage nieces thought it was really funny!

Funny and cute for any basic B you know!

This was a fun gift for a childhood friend. We both remainder these books when we were young. It was a funny story that was passed around the room.

My daughter loved the book

I received a box and it felt so light like nothing was in there, what could it be? This small paper back book abt. 5X5 in size and a whole lot of bubble wrap, yes I did laugh! Anyway the book cover so adorable basic black with big white lettering all capitals, “LITTLE MISS BASIC.” First impression, looks like a black and yellow bee female wearing a huge black sunglasses holding her cell phone and hand bag and in the other hand a Starbuck drink. Everything you will need to get your day started don’t you think? Now her love life wheels it’s ugly head, a friend lends an ear now Miss Basic wants to show her gratitude. Recognized this “:),” she declared, geez I am lost. Now instagram status, post a photo, #hash tag, 770 likes, lolwut so ratchet, omgeewhiz literally dyyyying. Now I’m really lost . . . just playing. So humorous and cute and funny an everyday conversation with your phone. Juice cleanse? She meets someone doing Savasana pose, his yoga mat is ratchet! He is vegan, possibly paleo. Got to read this very short bent over funny, funky humorous tale. The author managed to write his way to a typical problem a girl faces and the way she deals with it plus all the comforts or you can call it convenience. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I received a free book in exchange for a review through Blogging for Books.

This is a funny, super short little storybook about the life of Little Miss Basic. You know her, she's always drinking Pumpkin Spice Lattes in her uggs, betches! If you're a little miss basic, or if you just like to make fun of them, I recommend reading this just for fun! :)

The Little Miss Sunshine books were pretty popular when I was a kid, so I'm not surprised someone was clever (or desperate to sell books) enough to parody them, but let me just say that I think Dan Zevin got it right, which made me glad I requested a free copy for review from Blogging For Books.I attended a small private college in the Midwest where I (thankfully) did not fit in with most of the other coeds on campus. Add a cross necklace and replace the Coach purse with a Vera Bradley bag (more regional, and more affordable because, after all, they ARE college girls), and you've now cartoonized the flocks of consumerist lemmings I was surrounded by for every meal in the dining commons, every mandatory dorm meeting (No boys allowed on our floor!), and each Student Activities Council event. Reading this book and laughing aloud the whole time allowed me to vent any residual frustration I may have bottled up in the bottom of my Pumpkin Spice Latte-hating, would never wear UGGs in public, refuse to use any purse fully emblazoned with the brand's logo soul. What can I say? I'm more of a tea drinking, Mary Jane wearing, Cambridge Satchel Company carrying b*tch, myself.This book gently pokes at an issue I hope will strike a chord with any of its readers who may find themselves within these pages: that we've gone from wanting to be a unique, special snowflake/butterfly to wanting to fit in and be just like everybody else... by buying what everyone else buys. If one of the main resources at your disposal is your discretionary dollar, what does it say about you if you're lining up to purchase exactly the same kind of comestibles, fashions, and entertainment all of last season's trendsetters have encouraged you to buy by promoting themselves on Twitter and Instagram? Maybe it's that you have no idea who YOU are, and you might consider putting a hold on the Benjamins flying forth from your Coach-stamped wallet until you figure it out. Because, otherwise, you're just paying to be a poor imitation of the popular girl from your sorority, your favorite third-rate celebrity, or the lady down the block with the biggest engagement diamond.After all, we vote with our dollars, don't we? And I, for one, vote for this book.