BOOBS OVER HOLLYWOOD

Spring has just begun. Summer is almost upon us. I’m already dreaming sea, beach and frozen cocktails. But something is missing in this Mediterranean fantasy. I need an exciting, thrilling, funny book, even a bit grotesque. Something near to the Santa Barbara’s style, but not a soap opera. I thought long and hard about this. Now I think I have found the book for me. Title is BOOBS OVER HOLLYWOOD. Linda Hamner is the author. Exactly her. She was a writer on SB in 1987/88 and 1991/92  seasons. Soon you will read the interview I'm doing with her. When she spoke to me about  this book, curiosity pushed me to learn more. Plot is CAPTIVATING. Here it is:

Probably the only way Lena Carmichael is going to achieve her dream of becoming a cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic is to wait until a current cellist drops dead or runs off to Croatia with the bassoonist.

In BOOBS OVER HOLLYWOOD, while Lena waits for her big break, she works as a “go-fer” on the cheesy, yet wildly successful reality TV show The McBoob News Hour, where big-haired, big busted women vie for a news anchor position. “Think Barbara Walters, but with really big titties,” quips Tony, Lena’s idiotic boss. Her husband Max, who is opening a chain of Chinese-Mexican fusion restaurants in Southeast Asia, urges her hang up her cello and concentrate on the TV show, because “that’s where the money is.”

What keeps her going is her up-coming recital, which could be her big chance to impress representatives from the L.A. Phil. Unfortunately at the event, a fistfight erupts between Lena’s father and Casey O’Casey, her mother’s new lover, a troll of a man who is the world-wide distributor of garden gnomes. The recital ends up looking like a hockey match with wardrobe by Dolce & Gabbana. When O’Casey later mysteriously dies, Lena and her entire family are placed under an “umbrella of suspicion.”

Lena manages to untangle herself from O’Casey’s death, a failing marriage and her all-consuming job. Finally, there’s the tiniest hint of harmony in her life. And maybe a little romance with a handsome detective who bears an uncanny resemblance to Al Pacino in Serpico.

Anyone who has ever had a mind-numbing job working for some nimrod boss or has had to put their dreams on hold will relate to Lena’s plight. Relate and laugh.

This will be the book of my summer. If you are interested, you can find it online, by clicking here.

And remember: that it is NOT about the soaps.

Happy reading!!