Welcome back, Buzz Book Club readers! I can't believe this is the end of Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake! I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on the last essays and your impressions of the book overall. Stay tuned next week for my announcement of the August selection. Here's a recap of how the Book Club goes if you're new: Every week I'll suggest chapters to complete by the Read more

Welcome back Buzz Book Club readers! This week, we hit a section in Sloane Crosely's I Was Told There'd Be Cake that I think included one of her best stories of the whole book. But more on that in a moment. Here's a recap of how the Book Club goes if you're new: Every week I'll suggest chapters to complete by the next post (which, in this case, will go up every Friday in July). In these weekly Read more

Welcome back Buzz Book Club readers! We're plugging along through Sloane Crosely's I Was Told There'd Be Cake, and there were many more moments in this week's stories that I laughed at and related to. At this point, I do think Crosley's got the goods — but perhaps with more life experience under her belt, her stories will be even more poignant. Here's a recap of how the Book Club goes if Read more

Welcome back Buzz Book Club readers! How are you enjoying Sloane Crosely's I Was Told There'd Be Cake so far? I find her voice to be highly relatable, and I'm definitely guilty of snorting with laughter while reading her book in public. She's already given us a lot to talk about in this first section, that's for sure. Here's a recap of how the Book Club goes if you're new: Every week I'll suggest Read more

Hi there, Buzz Book Club readers! I know it's still June, but since we've wrapped up our discussion of Then We Came to the End and Fourth of July travel plans are looming, I wanted to give you a heads-up about the July book pick: Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake. The book, which is Crosley's debut collection of true-life essays, has been getting a lot of buzz in the literary world Read more

The buzz around I Was Told There'd Be Cake, publicist and author Sloane Crosley's collection of personal essays, isn't going to die down anytime soon: HBO has just bought the rights to turn the book into a series. The essays cover a wide range of topics (Crosley locking herself out of her apartment repeatedly while moving, collecting plastic ponies, etc.), and it's not clear what direction the Read more