Airplane Read

Isn't that the third time you've tried this fake marketing thing?

the last thing i need on an airplanee is someone laughing out loud right next to me.

or on a trainee, for that matter.

a spiritual twist! wow, AND it makes you "laugh out loud," as the kids say?

And hey who can't use a few palateable self-help tips now and then?

folks who can spell "literature," apparently

'chick lit with a spiritual twist' produces depressing visions of a goodhearted self-deprecating attractive slightly overweight bumbling protagonist desperately saying affirmations in the bathroom mirror at the publishing house where she spends her days being underappreciated who, mid-'i am a precious valuable human being and i deserve to be loved,' notices with excessive horror that she has a poppy seed stuck to her teeth which must have been there during her meeting with her handsome rakish model-dating boss whose offhand manner sent her scuttling to the restroom in the first place.
later, after a series of tribulations the universe finally coughs up and delivers a happy ending.
the reader closes the book, folds down her tray table, eats a piece of chilled apple shortcake and a floury small red apple, and makes quiet promises to herself. she remembers the poppy seed and laughs out loud.