The Gospel According To Coco Chanel.

I am a sucker for a good book.

And by "good book" I mean one that comes from a table like this at your local chain bookstore...

Fashion art books? Female-oriented self-help books? Books about shopping and fashion?

It's like they created this table just for me!

SQUEE!

(Sad? Maybe. But "eff you" if you think that.)

Anyhow... I found a new book to pick up on this exact table this evening. And it is one that I had read about a few weeks back...

The Gospel According To Coco Chanel.

It's a look at Coco Chanel's life, interwoven with a crash course on style. My favorite parts are the quote from Chanel herself...

• "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
• "Gentleness doesn't get work done, unless you happen to a hen laying eggs."
• "The answer isn't to climb down but to rise higher."
• "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
• "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

Really, this all sounds like a lesson on how to be a bitch. A fashionable bitch, though.