Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories

Hollis Gillespie is a hoot. Local column writer for Atlanta's Creative Loafing newspaper, she first got my attention when 3 diferent people told me she writes the way I talk. Perhaps she does, since I find her endlessly hilarious and emphatically support her points. She shoots from the hip uncensored tales of her rollercoaster life and the odd assortment of off beat characters that drift in and out of it. And as a fellow recovering slut- I applaud her. Yea Hollis.

I remembered enjoying Gillespie's other memoir, "Bleachy-haired Honky Bitch" but I couldn't get into this one. Gillespie tells stories of her life as an airline hostess that mostly involve a lot of drinking. The T in 'slut' on the cover and spine look like they might be stylized to represent the Christian cross, so I'm thinking there's a conversion about to take place later in the book. I'm not interested in reading about this person becoming a Christian, and I'd doubt that people who like that kind of thing would be interested in reading her exploits prior to her conversion.

This was okay, the stories were a little disjointed and it didn't necessarily flow for me. There were a lot of characters introduced and I would have liked to have more details on some of the more prominent characters. I haven't heard her on NPR, I'll have to pay a little more attention to see if I can find her there.