Karma … She Can Be A Bitch Sometimes!
by Jenners • 08/17/2010 • Confessions • 28 Comments
So last week I wrote about how Mr. Jenners punished me for sneakily downloading a Kindle book after he went on a book buying spree for our upcoming vacation.
(By the way, thanks to all of you who commented about how “unfair” it was that he got four books and I got punished for getting one. The thing is, I might have neglected to mention that I have a bookcase groaning under the weight of at least 100 unread books … as well as a backlog of 10 Kindle books that I still need to read. So it isn’t exactly like I’m deprived of books, which is why I’m under a book buying ban in the first place. Whereas Mr. Jenners reads mostly on vacation and doesn’t have a massive stockpile of reading material like I do. So, perhaps I might have slanted things just a tad to make me look not so awful. But I digress.)
Since that time, I underwent my punishment. (And, again, trust me. You don’t want to know what my punishment was. It had something to do with S.E.X.) Then Mr. Jenners decided to start reading one of his books on his train ride to work (he has a rather lengthy commute). The book—which was supposed to fall into a weird subgenre of books he’s been reading about people who’ve worked at Disney World and write about the experience—turns out to be a bit rambling and not so good. (In fact, it turns out the lady never worked at Disney World … she only ended up working at hotel in the Orlando area—not quite the same thing!) So I asked him who published the book, and he discovers the it is a self-published book that was created using Amazon’s CreateSpace subsidiary!
Upon further investigation, it turns out that three out of the four books he bought were self-published books!!! (The one, which he thought was a non-fiction book about casino security turned out to be a novel! Gasp! A dirty word in Mr. Jenners’s decidedly non-fiction world.) I had a good chuckle over this. You should have seen him freaking out as he researched each book and discovered the publisher was CreateSpace each time!
Now I know that self-published books don’t necessarily equal “awful” or “rambling” or “unprofessional” or “filled with typos,” but when you’re as picky as Mr. Jenners about your reading (this is the man who read 10 pages of Johnathan Tropper’s excellent This Is Where I Leave You before pronouncing it “boring“), the lack of a professional editor and book deal is not going to help you out.
So now Mr. Jenners is in a quandary. All he has to read is a porn star memoir (I kid you not) and a book about gambling written by the movie critic Richard Roeper. Being the kind of wife I am, I offered to let him read the non-fiction travel book I had sneakily downloaded.
I await his answer.
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you kids are too too funny!!!! and isn't it more HIS punishment if it has to do with S.E.X.? Wait, I don't even want to know!
Note to self: Do not read Jenners' posts while drinking first cup of morning coffee … I laughed so hard I made a mess down the front of me AND on the keyboard!
poor mr. jenners! but pretty funny.
LOL Brilliant! He'll be researching his books a little better next time then?!
I laughed about the porn star autobiography because I actually have on on the shelf next to me (Ms. Jameson's to be exact)… not self published though — that would weight on the creepier rather than interesting side.
Seriously sounds like Mr. J needs to expand his reading horizons a tad besides letting you choose the books in the first place. Thanks for the heads up on CreateSpace. The last self pub'd book I read was so awful that if I even paid 2 cents for it, it would have been too much!
wait..I don't get the karma thing.
You did something wrong…as you admit…and he gets punished?
That is just so funny! I remember well my first few self-pubs that I had agreed to review unknowingly. What an important lesson!
I'm liking this saga more and more each day…..I can't wait to hear what he chooses!
Oh this is way too funny! ha-ha Karma bit his butt. You mean he wouldn't read something form your shelf, and maybe hook you up with a review? just a thought
LOL…your stalker…I loved the cartoon. And perhaps he should be thankful, without your sneaky download Mr Jenners wouldn't have anything to read. And to thank you, he should get a punishment. Just sayin'.
Tell Mr. Jenners, he was paid back for being mean to Mrs Jenners…LOL. Hope those self-pub books were nice and cheap.
It sounds like Mr. Jenners got punished too! LOL
poor Mr. Jenners, he should ask his Mrs. for her recommendations, she's got loads of experience.
Hee!
Oh my gosh – I am just rolling over here. Ow! My sides!
I take it he wouldn't mind being punished then or was the disaster that was his books punishment enough?
LOL! Sorry for Mr. Jenners. I hope he finds a couple of books to read for the vacation. I think all men use the same form of punishment;)
LOL and you say *I* get personal on my blog.
Karma can be a bitch sometimes, but at the end of the day, she is always very FAIR. I had to laugh…you have the best outlook on life. As far as the hotel worker in Orlando, she may not have worked at Disney, but I would suggest that for all of us who live here, Disney has had its way with each and every one of us..
As always you have made me laugh and smile!
I am laughing and slapping my knees over this one. Bwhahahaha!! That's me, almost falling backward in my chair.
Karma IS a bitch and it wasn't created by CreateSpace either.
My guess is he will tell you no and then read it in a sneaky fashion.
I had no idea there was such a thing as CreateSpace, either. That is so funny. Poor Mr. Jenners. But not really.
Too funny. I wasn't even familiar with CreateSpace. Thanks forthe warning.
LOL!
*chuckling under breath* I'll be waiting to hear how it turns out.
Thanks for the chuckle. Poor Mr. Jenners! That would suck to have paid for books only to find out that they are not what you were expecting. Hopefully he'll find something to read.
Well, well. I bet he'll research his books a little more closely next time before purchasing! Think he'll eat crow and read the one you were "punished" for??
I'm feeling much better about my own bookshelf after hearing a description of yours.