Admittedly, Eileen Smith, aka Pink Lady (aka IIIIN), is too loud for book clubs. She drinks too much, and you'd have to cover your kids' ears every other word. True. But her blog is funny as hell. Let her blow off steam, rant, rave, hurl insults at Starbucks employees on her way to her desk job at Texas Monthly. Irreverent, self-deprecating, but smart as a whip. Your workday just got breezier. In a different demographic, the Fabulous Geezersisters is the blog of Ruth Pennebaker and Poland-residing Ellen Dlott. The two are sisters, in their 50s, far from each other, but both amped by the written word. Thus, their blog. As Ruth leaves her law days behind for a career in writing and Dlott teaches English in Poland, they have wise words, sage advice, and just normal human reactions, explaining their own investment confusions and neuroses in a frank next-door-neighborly way. Cookies and milk.
