April 19, 2012

Pajamas & Coffee & Vibrators....


My bloggy buddy Mary McCarthy of Pajamas and Coffee has just published her first e-book, called The Hump Day Diaries. And it's about damn time.

I love Mary. She is smart and sexy and talented and hysterically funny and gay-loving and batshit crazy, all in a good way.

When I first entered the bloggy world she was the first big-time blogger to be warm and welcoming to me with some attention and feedback. It meant the world to me and still does. Sure, I later realized she's not actually so big time (love ya Mary!) but really, she should be.

Hump Day Diaries is a collection of 19 "lost" posts from Pajamas and Coffee, published on Wednesdays ("hump day") and focusing on geeky naive adventures with sex toys and dirty words, with chapters like Fuck A Duck and Bad Boyfriend Voodoo Doll. Keep it classy, Mary!

Also featured is one new essay, about a $100 vibrator. A hundred dollar vibrator? Hell, where I grew up you could get two vibrators, a barrel of flavoured lube, and a happy ending for less than that. Or uh so I've heard...

I remember reading these posts when they first came out. I was entertained and amazed and felt prudish. Reading them again, I chuckled and laughed and admired the writer's skill even more.

As Mary says, she is a humour writer, not a sex writer, so these essays are funny rather than sexy. Or maybe they are sexy for some, I don't know, she writes about her boobs a lot, and boobs really do not do it for me. Apparently Mary's are enormous and fabulous, in case you were wondering.

How non-sexy is this? Mary watches her first porn and is surprised at how graphic it is. Um, girlfriend, that's WHAT PORN IS. Or uh so I've heard...

Mary writes that the most popular post here is Fuck a Duck, her first sex toy review, about a rubber ducky vibrator she names Johnny Depp and has to give CPR to. It's hysterical. My favourites are the Clone A Willy posts where Mary discovers her husband's penis is crooked and suggests that merits a handicapped parking space at Target. Or maybe my fave is Mary Had A Little Lamb, where she reviews a talking sheep blow up doll. And invokes the spirit of Tom Cruise. Awesomeness.

You can buy The Hump Day Diaries e-book for $3.99 on Amazon. Get it and laugh. And please Mary stop pretending that was your first porn experience...

Note: The author sent me a reading copy of this book. This review is entirely my own, and I received no compensation for writing this review. If she really cared, jelly beans would have been nice...