I had so much fun reading Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens. So much fun that I didn’t want to write a review or even sum up my thoughts on the madcap, hilarious satire. Instead, here’s my homage to that perfect end-of-summer read: my own contestant fun facts page, if as a Wisconsin teen I hadn’t been more Daria-like than a Teen Dreamer.
Name: Rebecca Behrens
State: Miss Wisconsin
Age: 16
Height: almost 5′ 3”
Weight: Depends on how many dairy products I have sampled
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green
Best feature: Arm muscles from frozen-custard scooping
Fun Facts About Me:
I secretly love to sing along to my Boyz Will B Boyz CD while dancing around my room. But in public, I tell everyone I only listen to alternative and folk rock.*
My favorite show is NOVA Captains Bodacious.
The thing that scares me most is Ladybird Hope the swimsuit competition running out of the Corporation’s 100 Lashes mascara.
I love watching old movies, and I like to make Hitchcock blonde Halloween costumes.
My dream is to run the Corporation’s doughnut production business unit. Or to be an investigative journalist who exposes crooks with hidden cameras. I love me some hidden cameras.
*The Corporation suggested that I do not mention Ani DiFranco by name.
For those of you who’ve read Beauty Queens: what would your fun facts be?
Fun! I think the Corporation would have crossed out everything I wrote when I was a teen. Mine would go something like: Miss Virginia, brown hair and eyes, I seem shorter than I am (5’2) because I have such tall friends. My dream in life is to write novels while my boyfriend supports us playing guitar on the street corner (<--this is actually very close to what I wrote in my high school newspaper's special Senior Edition, about where I would be in 15 years...hah)
“I love me some hidden cameras”-What fun!
This one’s on my TBListenedTo pile. I’m so looking forward to it…and isn’t that cover amazing. I’m not usually a cover gusher, but I love this one. Glad the book lives up to it…but I expect no less from Miss Bray.
Ha! This is so much fun, Rebecca! BEAUTY QUEENS was definitely a cool book… And now you’ve made me want to write up a Fun Facts Page. 🙂
The cover alone could’ve sold me this book. It’s absolutely perfect.
Oh. My. GOSH! I should have totally done this for my review. You are so clever!
And I loved this book. Loved it.
My brain is now going a mile a minute trying to think of fun facts. Yours were awesome!
Best. Review. Ever. I love it! And like Alison, I wish I’d thought of it. Hilarious book, gotta say 🙂
The Miss Universe pageant was on the TV at my gym last night, and I actually didn’t change the channel. I wanted to figure out who would be a Taylor Rene Krystal Hawkins!
This post inspired me to read the book – ohmygoodness, it was awesome. So full of perfect awesomeness. It made me wish I taught English so I could make all my students read it too! Thanks for the recommendation!
Oh, yay! Glad you liked it 🙂