Amazon.com has done it again with some impeccable recommendation work for me. Based on my past purchases of Xena DVDs, they have recommended a book: Chocolate Lemons and Peppermint Tears: The Bittersweet Life of Xena. Behold the Amazon.com book description:

Set in Los Angeles in the mid-1990’s, Chocolate Lemons and Peppermint Tears: The Bittersweet Life of Xena, tells the poignant, funny, sexy, in your face, and very relatable tale of Xena Quay Vaughan, an attractive, successful, slightly neurotic, never been married black woman in her mid-thirties, who struggles desperately with getting over a married man; her perceived weight problem; being celibate for almost two years; being a natural sista in a weave-uh-diva world, her free-spirited best friend, Renee, with her “I don’t give a damn” attitude; finally meeting and falling in love with “the one;” and a mind-boggling encounter between the married man and her lover. This story will leave you wanting more – like seconds at Thanksgiving.

Um. Yeah.

In Amazon’s defense, the name Xena is unique enough that it’s a fair assumption that any appearance of the name would be in reference to that familiar warrior princess. You’d think, though, that a company called Amazon would have a special knack at picking out the real protector of the Queen of the Amazons, wouldn’t you? I mean, really.

Too nerdy? Okay. I’ll reel it back a little.

I love that in this book, Xena’s best friend is named Ren