You just have to read this book! It is that good!

This is a fiction book written in the form of a blog and some e-mails. It is not the first book written in this format, and it won’t be the last, but I still think its an exciting new format.

The text in the book looks like the text in an actual blog, and even has titles and time stamps on the end. The e-mails have who it is to and who it is from, and are exactly what you would expect an e-mail to look like. The text used for the e-mails is different than the one used for the blog. I am just enough of a geek to find this to be really cool! Reading this book feels just like reading someone’s real blog on the internet. It’s fun!

The character called Anonymous Lawyer is really a lawyer. He is a partner in some prestigious law firm, hoping and scheming to one day be promoted to Chairman. One day, with the help of Anonymous Niece, he decides to write a blog, just for fun. He figures he will delete it when he loses interest, which he expects to be soon.

Instead, the blog takes on a life of its own. At first, he is just venting a little bit about things that annoy him at work. He quickly moves on to describing day to day events that happen with his job, the people he works with, and his family. In the blog, he writes exactly what he thinks about it all. He is sarcastic, jaded, and exactly as self-important as we all expect big lawyers to be. The writing is wonderful!

Soon, he becomes a bit worried. Are other people reading his blog? Will he be found out? He decides to set up an e-mail address for the blog, and starts getting comments. At first, he gets a lot of e-mails from lawyers around the country who are convinced that they know who Anonymous Lawyer really is. They are certain he’s the guy in the next office who is typing on his laptop right now. They are sure he is the lawyer who made their life a living hell when they were a summer intern. They are convinced they work in the same law firm as Anonymous Lawyer because their firm just took the summer interns to the beach the other day too. All are wrong. Its interesting just how many other people have the same things Anonymous Lawyer experiences happen where they work as well. Some of these things are tragic, some are comical, most are outrageous.

But then, someone who Anonymous Lawyer works with really finds out about his blog! How did he do it? Anonymous Lawyer never named what firm he works for, and has changed the names of the coworkers he writes about. He renames some of them as The Jerk, The Tax Guy, or The One Wants To Be Partner. Some of the interns are named The Suck Up, The Foreign Guy, and The Girl Who Dresses Like A Slut. His own family is called Anonymous Wife, Anonymous Daughter, and Anonymous Son. How much could really be in this blog that could hurt him anyway?

But, Anonymous Lawyer still becomes paranoid. He has to, because he works as a lawyer, where everyone wants to move up, and will use anything they can to ensure that they do and the other guy doesn’t. What is he going to do now?

Things go from there. This book even has a moral for the modern world. Be careful what you blog. Be very careful what you blog and allow the world to just click on and read. Your nasty comments can come back to bite you.