While in Jamaica, I started and finished reading Melissa P’s book 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed. This international bestseller was something I picked up many months ago with a Borders Gift Card and finally got around to reading. It uses a diary entry style and gives the reader the point of view of a teenage girl’s sexual/romantic development in a town in Italy. The book’s shocking pieces could be offset by the vivid and scarce language, but the almost Hollywood ending doesn’t seem to fit with the rest of the story. In some ways, it’s like Brass, that I wrote about before. If you have nothing else to read, pick this up. But, don’t interrupt your regularly scheduled reading list to pick this one up.