Before there was the bad TV show Gossip Girl, there was the terrible series of novels by the same name. So if this is worse than crap, what is it? Shit? Well, as the book would say, it’s shit with the smell of French perfume that the maid sprays around the house ever hour.

Narrated by an omniscient blogger, Cecily von Ziegesar’s book has the descriptive depth of a Huffington Post headline, the psychological insight  of TMZ, and the plot of Cute Overload.  Fortunately, it also has another trademark of the blog world: brevity.  Yes, at an easy to swallow 2 hours, the abridged audiobook gave us just enough to joke about and not enough to ruin our lives.