Reality television personality Snooki doesn’t read books much, nor magazines or newspapers for that matter — unless she is in them. But the popular 23 year-old castmate from hit MTV reality show “Jersey Shore” has written a book, and it’s not just the now ubiquitous memoir from B-list celebrities that are often successful these days.
Snooki is taking a risk, releasing this week a novel, “A Shore Thing,” inspired by her exploits along New Jersey’s famed boardwalk in the U.S. summer. “Jersey Shore” landed on the U.S. pop culture map with a bang about one year ago, and its cast members in their 20s are now stars.
The show puts the men and women in a house — the first one in Seaside Heights, New Jersey town and for season two, in Miami — and turns the cameras on as the group parties all night and looks to hook up with the opposite sex. In “A Shore Thing,” Snooki’s main character is based on Snooki. The author said she is a “pint-sized” and “carefree outspoken party girl,” who with partner in crime — based on her “Jersey Shore” castmate Jenni “Jwoww” Farley — cruises the Jersey Shore looking for fun and boys.
The book pokes fun at Snooki’s real-life arrest in July last year for public drunkenness while taping the TV show’s current season. “It’s a scary thing,” She said about the incident, “especially for a little four-foot-nine girl, so I wanted to put it in the book but also have a silly side to it. Because I don’t want people to think it’s so serious, because it was just a little mistake. Lesson learned.”
