Two years ago, we wondered what the Jolie In NYC blogger would do after she was outed as Ladies Home Journal beauty editor Nadine Haobsh. We predicted a book deal, especially since her anon-blog all but guaranteed she would never get another job at a woman’s magazine.

Well, we must have publishing ESP, because Haobsh is back with a book, Beauty Confidential. And last night we had a dream about being too tired to work today, and now we are completely exhausted. Seriously, this is getting creepy.

If you want to feel guilty about putting your money toward food and rent instead of your appearance, then this is the book for you. One “beauty myth” to dispel yourself of: “A $25 cut looks the same as a $250 cut.” Was that even a myth?

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Rich people read books. To find out about new books, they read book reviews. Advertisers want to reach rich people. They advertise next to book reviews. Book reviews are cheap to produce.

That’s our synopsis of the 800-word article in the Philadelphia Inquirer that defends the book review business model.

So why are newspapers cutting back on book reviews? Because people only have the attention span for the 30-word summary.