African Sleeping Sickness; Stories and Poems Book

The book started to be very promising. Quite a handful of helpful, practical tips on how to behave appropriately in every single social situation under the sun and how to make the best of it. From what to say when a friend is wearing an unflattering outfit to how to defuse a situation when your boss is hitting on you. It has a lot of British slang in it which the made reading it all the more amusing to me. Sure, it can get a little ABC but that's what I like. I wanted a basis of etiquette adapted to the modern girl.

However, something I greatly disliked popped up at the end of the book where the author, instead of teaching us how to behave properly and take the higher road, promotes a series of petty and ridiculous behaviors. For example, selling information to the tabloids if a vain celebrity got on your nerves. Really? That's ladylike? It's almost as if the author was sick and tired of writing how to be prim and proper and took the lesser road to add 'humor' to it. I'm guessing.