Grade: A
Highly recommended.
Little Girl Gone is a dark, depressing story about a young girl from a messed up family heading nowhere quickly. We meet Madora, a 17 year old girl who goes to a party with a friend and gets gooped up on something. She meets a man named Willis who says he can rescue her if she comes with him. Off Madora goes with Willis to his trailer in the middle of nowhere for five years. Madora becomes Willis' attendant, taking care of her captor without realizing that he has indeed kidnapped her. While driving around, Willis spots a pregnant teen and sets his eyes on her. He must have her and rescue her too, so he takes her and keeps her prisoner in a crappy trailer on his property. Madora finds solace in a little pit bull puppy, Foo, that she saves from certain death in a box on the side of the road. Along with Foo, a young boy Django Jones comes along and slowly befriends Madora. Django helps Madora see Willis for his true self and helps her remember who she really is.
Little Girl Gone is a fast paced story and reminded me a bit of Joyce Carol Oates. This is a dark and creepy story about a sick and perverted man kidnapping young girls while telling them that he's saving them from a worse fate. We get to see Stockholm Syndrome in action without the plot feeling heavy handed or trite. Sure you can kind of tell where the story is going, but that won't stop you from reading. This was my first Drusilla Campbell read, and it was the mention of the pit bull that piqued my interest. Those who know me know I have a big soft spot for pit bulls. She's an Australian author although you'd never tell. I really like her writing style and think you guys will too.
Wednesday
Home Front by Kristin Hannah
Grade: D+
Not particularly recommended.
I'm sure I gave at least one book in The Hunger Games trilogy a D+, so I should say that this Kristin Hannah was slightly better than that.
Home Front is the story of Jolene, an army helicopter pilot, and her family; husband Michael, a lawyer, daughter Betsy, a bratty teenager, and Lulu, the four year old. Jolene and her neighbor and bestie Tammi are sent off to Iraq, leaving their husbands as single parents. Michael disapproves of the war and has a hard time dealing with Jolene being called to duty. Betsy is just a miserable teenager who acts out because she misses her mom and is scared that she won't come home. The war continues and Jolene comes home, but nothing is the same.
This book read like a slightly better Jodi Picoult book. The writing is just meh, and the plot twists predictable and sappy. Kristin Hannah also has a love affair with the word mulishly, as it is used over and over and over again. I did read an ARC edition so hopefully that changed. The characters are trite and straight out of a Lifetime movie. Naturally Michael is anti war, because what else would you expect from a military spouse whose wife is a proud soldier. And naturally with Michael being a lawyer, he would get a case involving PTSD, because how else would he learn what his wife is going through. It's only fitting that Jolene goes from being a control freak mom to having to learn to let someone else be in charge, no matter what your magic binder of directions says.
I was hoping for a fun beach type read, but instead got this, nearly 400 pages of mediocrity. I should have known from the cover being all pink and pretty, and also the book being the same size and thickness of a Jodi Picoult, but the ladies in my book group looooooooove Kristin Hannah, so I gave her a try. Not helping matters was my darling husband who just glanced at the book on the kitchen table and asked if it was a box of tampons. I'll give her another chance since the book group has chosen Night Road as the other Kristin Hannah selection. She gets one more chance and that's it. Life is too short to spend reading books by bestselling authors hoping that there is a good read amongst all the dreck.
Not particularly recommended.
I'm sure I gave at least one book in The Hunger Games trilogy a D+, so I should say that this Kristin Hannah was slightly better than that.
Home Front is the story of Jolene, an army helicopter pilot, and her family; husband Michael, a lawyer, daughter Betsy, a bratty teenager, and Lulu, the four year old. Jolene and her neighbor and bestie Tammi are sent off to Iraq, leaving their husbands as single parents. Michael disapproves of the war and has a hard time dealing with Jolene being called to duty. Betsy is just a miserable teenager who acts out because she misses her mom and is scared that she won't come home. The war continues and Jolene comes home, but nothing is the same.
This book read like a slightly better Jodi Picoult book. The writing is just meh, and the plot twists predictable and sappy. Kristin Hannah also has a love affair with the word mulishly, as it is used over and over and over again. I did read an ARC edition so hopefully that changed. The characters are trite and straight out of a Lifetime movie. Naturally Michael is anti war, because what else would you expect from a military spouse whose wife is a proud soldier. And naturally with Michael being a lawyer, he would get a case involving PTSD, because how else would he learn what his wife is going through. It's only fitting that Jolene goes from being a control freak mom to having to learn to let someone else be in charge, no matter what your magic binder of directions says.
I was hoping for a fun beach type read, but instead got this, nearly 400 pages of mediocrity. I should have known from the cover being all pink and pretty, and also the book being the same size and thickness of a Jodi Picoult, but the ladies in my book group looooooooove Kristin Hannah, so I gave her a try. Not helping matters was my darling husband who just glanced at the book on the kitchen table and asked if it was a box of tampons. I'll give her another chance since the book group has chosen Night Road as the other Kristin Hannah selection. She gets one more chance and that's it. Life is too short to spend reading books by bestselling authors hoping that there is a good read amongst all the dreck.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Grade: A+
Highly recommended for fans of historical fiction, WWII stories, and those who enjoy the beauty of words and books.
The Book Thief should include coupons for kleenex because hoo boy are you going to need them! I'm talking crying oceans of tears.
The Book Thief is a story about a foster child, Liesel, sent to live in a poor town near Munich after her parents were accused of being Communists. Liesel's foster family is a cast of characters to say the least. Her mother does the laundry for those who can afford it and swears like a trucker. Her father is a painter and accordion player with a heart of gold. Liesel meets a neighborhood boy named Rudy and together they navigate the crumbling town of Molching, stealing books and fruit. Along the way comes Max Vandenberg, a Jewish man in desperate need of help. Death is our narrator.
The prose of Markus Zusak is beautiful and just goes to show how you can craft short sentences into beauty. Considering how heavy the subject matter is in this book, Zusak turning it into beauty shows what a talented writer he is. The writing is so superb that you can close your eyes and imagine the streets of Molching, the Hubermann's house, the Mayor's library, etc. Bonus points for teaching me how to swear in German! The Book Thief has won quite a few awards, although I have to disagree with it being considered a YA novel. Had I read this in junior high or high school I doubt that I would have appreciated the prose.
If you can get through the book without crying buckets of tears, I'm not sure if we read the same book. This book is deeply affecting, will haunt you, and does take time to fully process, but it's so worth it. The Book Thief is one of those titles that I'm all evangelical about.
Highly recommended for fans of historical fiction, WWII stories, and those who enjoy the beauty of words and books.
The Book Thief should include coupons for kleenex because hoo boy are you going to need them! I'm talking crying oceans of tears.
The Book Thief is a story about a foster child, Liesel, sent to live in a poor town near Munich after her parents were accused of being Communists. Liesel's foster family is a cast of characters to say the least. Her mother does the laundry for those who can afford it and swears like a trucker. Her father is a painter and accordion player with a heart of gold. Liesel meets a neighborhood boy named Rudy and together they navigate the crumbling town of Molching, stealing books and fruit. Along the way comes Max Vandenberg, a Jewish man in desperate need of help. Death is our narrator.
The prose of Markus Zusak is beautiful and just goes to show how you can craft short sentences into beauty. Considering how heavy the subject matter is in this book, Zusak turning it into beauty shows what a talented writer he is. The writing is so superb that you can close your eyes and imagine the streets of Molching, the Hubermann's house, the Mayor's library, etc. Bonus points for teaching me how to swear in German! The Book Thief has won quite a few awards, although I have to disagree with it being considered a YA novel. Had I read this in junior high or high school I doubt that I would have appreciated the prose.
If you can get through the book without crying buckets of tears, I'm not sure if we read the same book. This book is deeply affecting, will haunt you, and does take time to fully process, but it's so worth it. The Book Thief is one of those titles that I'm all evangelical about.
Monday
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Grade: D+
Not Recommended.
Huzzah! The end of The Hunger Games trilogy is here!
Let me answer the question you all are thinking...why did I read this if I disliked the first two so much. One reason being a huge glass of shut up juice to certain Hunger Games fanatic friends. Another reason is to validate myself for figuring out the ending after less than 50 pages of The Hunger Games.
I'm not going to add spoiler warnings because if you have only the slightest clue what the books are about, you can guess the ending. If I spoil anything for you, sorry. You can thank me later when I have saved you the time of reading these three books.
Having the ending figured out in book one isn't saying much. It's not like Suzanne Collins made it all that difficult when she spells out the logical ending. The whole series has been nothing but predictable, so why should the series conclusion be any different.
We left off in Catching Fire with the districts rebelling against the Capitol and the very likely result being an all out war. Surprise surprise, here in Mockingjay war has broken out. After the Capitol bombed district 12, the survivors were taken to district 13. Katniss and the rebels who rescued her are plotting on how to kill President Snow. Let me rephrase, the rebels minus any effort from Katniss are plotting. Katniss is her usual dumb as dirt puppet self incapable of any original thoughts and ideas. Peeta has been taken by the Capitol and brainwashed to think that this is all Katniss' fault and she needs to be stopped. Gale is his usual Edward/Jacob self. The rebels want Katniss to own up to her Mockingjay title and be the image of the rebels where a television crew can follow her around and make rebel propaganda videos to show to the citizens of Panem and the Capitol. In true Mary Sue form, Katniss stays in her puppet like state and lets everyone else tell her what she should do.
Suzanne Collins is a lousy writer, plain and simple. Lousy is probably paying her an undeserved compliment. What really steamed my beans in this book were the paragraphs consisting of sentences of 5 words or less. I'm dead flipping serious, there was at least one paragraph of 2 and 3 word sentences with one lonely 5 word sentence thrown in. Every page had 2 and 3 word sentences...every stinking page! Surely her editors mentioned changing some of those periods into commas, but if those suggestions were made they were made on deaf ears.
The plot is formulaic and predictable as usual and still ripping off other (better) books. The plot "twists" can be figured out in no time. There's still no page turning suspense or gripping action. Katniss is a puppet who still cannot think for herself. Strong female character that teens can look up to...not in your lifetime. Characters with silly names are introduced and killed off, same with people close to Katniss. Peeta still fits into this little pathetic love triangle of Katniss-Gale-Peeta. Gale is equally as uninteresting. The only character remotely close to interesting is Buttercup the cat.
If you are reading the series expecting a satisfying conclusion, you picked the wrong series. The ending is rather brief and doesn't wrap up all that much. Naturally Katniss and Peeta end up together and have a couple of babies, because really who else would she have ended up with? Things in district 12 start coming around as soon as President Snow and President Coin have died. Haymitch raises geese because apparently they require little effort to raise and he can continue being drunk while raising them.
Allow me to pause and wipe the snark and sarcasm off my chin.
This series was bad, really really really bad. The worst of the three books is hands down The Hunger Games. If you can stomach that, you become a little desensitized to books 2 and 3 being garbage. Or maybe the rest of you cheated and looked up the series spoilers. I stupidly clung to the hope that there was something redeeming somewhere in the series. There is nothing of the sort. In hindsight I should have stopped after book 1 when one of my fangirl friends all but confirmed my predictions of books 2 and 3. Clearly I am a glutton for punishment. Stephenie Meyer may be a lousy author, but at least she can entertain me.
Mad Magazine really needs to parody books two and three to spare even one person from reading that dreck. Their parody of The Hunger Games is hilarious.
If I could retitle the series it would look something like this:
The Hunger Games would be The Hunger Pains.
Catching Fire would be Catching Gonorrhea.
Mockingjay would be Mockingjerk.
May the odds be ever in your favor of not reading this series. Otherwise don't say I didn't warn you.
Not Recommended.
Huzzah! The end of The Hunger Games trilogy is here!
Let me answer the question you all are thinking...why did I read this if I disliked the first two so much. One reason being a huge glass of shut up juice to certain Hunger Games fanatic friends. Another reason is to validate myself for figuring out the ending after less than 50 pages of The Hunger Games.
I'm not going to add spoiler warnings because if you have only the slightest clue what the books are about, you can guess the ending. If I spoil anything for you, sorry. You can thank me later when I have saved you the time of reading these three books.
Having the ending figured out in book one isn't saying much. It's not like Suzanne Collins made it all that difficult when she spells out the logical ending. The whole series has been nothing but predictable, so why should the series conclusion be any different.
We left off in Catching Fire with the districts rebelling against the Capitol and the very likely result being an all out war. Surprise surprise, here in Mockingjay war has broken out. After the Capitol bombed district 12, the survivors were taken to district 13. Katniss and the rebels who rescued her are plotting on how to kill President Snow. Let me rephrase, the rebels minus any effort from Katniss are plotting. Katniss is her usual dumb as dirt puppet self incapable of any original thoughts and ideas. Peeta has been taken by the Capitol and brainwashed to think that this is all Katniss' fault and she needs to be stopped. Gale is his usual Edward/Jacob self. The rebels want Katniss to own up to her Mockingjay title and be the image of the rebels where a television crew can follow her around and make rebel propaganda videos to show to the citizens of Panem and the Capitol. In true Mary Sue form, Katniss stays in her puppet like state and lets everyone else tell her what she should do.
Suzanne Collins is a lousy writer, plain and simple. Lousy is probably paying her an undeserved compliment. What really steamed my beans in this book were the paragraphs consisting of sentences of 5 words or less. I'm dead flipping serious, there was at least one paragraph of 2 and 3 word sentences with one lonely 5 word sentence thrown in. Every page had 2 and 3 word sentences...every stinking page! Surely her editors mentioned changing some of those periods into commas, but if those suggestions were made they were made on deaf ears.
The plot is formulaic and predictable as usual and still ripping off other (better) books. The plot "twists" can be figured out in no time. There's still no page turning suspense or gripping action. Katniss is a puppet who still cannot think for herself. Strong female character that teens can look up to...not in your lifetime. Characters with silly names are introduced and killed off, same with people close to Katniss. Peeta still fits into this little pathetic love triangle of Katniss-Gale-Peeta. Gale is equally as uninteresting. The only character remotely close to interesting is Buttercup the cat.
If you are reading the series expecting a satisfying conclusion, you picked the wrong series. The ending is rather brief and doesn't wrap up all that much. Naturally Katniss and Peeta end up together and have a couple of babies, because really who else would she have ended up with? Things in district 12 start coming around as soon as President Snow and President Coin have died. Haymitch raises geese because apparently they require little effort to raise and he can continue being drunk while raising them.
Allow me to pause and wipe the snark and sarcasm off my chin.
This series was bad, really really really bad. The worst of the three books is hands down The Hunger Games. If you can stomach that, you become a little desensitized to books 2 and 3 being garbage. Or maybe the rest of you cheated and looked up the series spoilers. I stupidly clung to the hope that there was something redeeming somewhere in the series. There is nothing of the sort. In hindsight I should have stopped after book 1 when one of my fangirl friends all but confirmed my predictions of books 2 and 3. Clearly I am a glutton for punishment. Stephenie Meyer may be a lousy author, but at least she can entertain me.
Mad Magazine really needs to parody books two and three to spare even one person from reading that dreck. Their parody of The Hunger Games is hilarious.
If I could retitle the series it would look something like this:
The Hunger Games would be The Hunger Pains.
Catching Fire would be Catching Gonorrhea.
Mockingjay would be Mockingjerk.
May the odds be ever in your favor of not reading this series. Otherwise don't say I didn't warn you.
Thursday
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Grade: C-
Not particularly recommended.
If you can tell me that you can walk through your library's YA section and not notice Sarah Dessen, I call your bluff. She's written a ton of books.
Along for the Ride is a super easy peasy read and if it were food it would likely be Peeps with questionable nutritional content. In this book we meet Auden, a high school girl spending the summer with her dad and his new family. Clearly Auden's parents are a bit off considering her name is Auden (yes after the poet) and her brother has an equally odd name that escapes me for the moment. Her parents are divorced and her mother seems to enjoy the company of her grad students while her dad has a new wife and baby. Auden hasn't slept at night for quite some time and in her insomniac wanderings crosses paths with an introvert named Eli. They form a dynamic duo of insomniacs who bond over junk food, coffee and pie. Oh and BMX bikes, hence the cover. Eli along with some local girls that Auden meets at her clothing boutique job teach her what being a normal teenager is like.
Sarah Dessen is the YA intro to romance novels. If you're a teenager reading Sarah Dessen and liking her a lot, I'd be willing to bet that as an adult, you'll be devouring Jennifer Crusie and Kristan Higgins. Maybe because it's like a watered down version of one of those books or maybe it just isn't Dessen's best. The book didn't do anything special for me. It wasn't bad but it wasn't good either. I'm willing to give her another chance and welcome anyone's suggestions and recommendations of which titles you liked. This is the light side of YA fiction, certainly lightyears different from Please Ignore Vera Dietz and Looking for Alaska. The plot wasn't interesting enough for me and I found the characters to be almost awkward and unlikable. It was the book version of Peeps, Lucky Charms and Fruity Pebbles, pick your poison. Not every YA book can be as fantastic as a John Green or A.S. King.
Not particularly recommended.
If you can tell me that you can walk through your library's YA section and not notice Sarah Dessen, I call your bluff. She's written a ton of books.
Along for the Ride is a super easy peasy read and if it were food it would likely be Peeps with questionable nutritional content. In this book we meet Auden, a high school girl spending the summer with her dad and his new family. Clearly Auden's parents are a bit off considering her name is Auden (yes after the poet) and her brother has an equally odd name that escapes me for the moment. Her parents are divorced and her mother seems to enjoy the company of her grad students while her dad has a new wife and baby. Auden hasn't slept at night for quite some time and in her insomniac wanderings crosses paths with an introvert named Eli. They form a dynamic duo of insomniacs who bond over junk food, coffee and pie. Oh and BMX bikes, hence the cover. Eli along with some local girls that Auden meets at her clothing boutique job teach her what being a normal teenager is like.
Sarah Dessen is the YA intro to romance novels. If you're a teenager reading Sarah Dessen and liking her a lot, I'd be willing to bet that as an adult, you'll be devouring Jennifer Crusie and Kristan Higgins. Maybe because it's like a watered down version of one of those books or maybe it just isn't Dessen's best. The book didn't do anything special for me. It wasn't bad but it wasn't good either. I'm willing to give her another chance and welcome anyone's suggestions and recommendations of which titles you liked. This is the light side of YA fiction, certainly lightyears different from Please Ignore Vera Dietz and Looking for Alaska. The plot wasn't interesting enough for me and I found the characters to be almost awkward and unlikable. It was the book version of Peeps, Lucky Charms and Fruity Pebbles, pick your poison. Not every YA book can be as fantastic as a John Green or A.S. King.
Until There Was You by Kristan Higgins
Grade: B
Recommended for fans of chick-lit romance and those needing a good beach read.
If you pay attention to and follow the RITA Awards, no doubt you know about Kristan Higgins. If not, you're missing out on a ton of fun light reads.
Until There Was You is a cute story about a woman named Posey and the bad boy she lusts after Liam. Normally, Kristan Higgins writes from one POV, but this time we are treated to Liam's as well. He's a bad boy who's not really all that bad. He's actually quite the sweetums. The bad boy part comes from his love for motorcycles and that he builds custom bikes. Posey, our heroine, is a bit of a tomboy. She owns her own business, an architectural salvage company so she's usually in work clothes. Her family also owns a German restaurant. She also had her heart squashed and trampled on by Liam while they were in high school. Liam comes back to town and stirs up all these warm melty feeling in Posey, and you probably know how the rest plays out.
Part of why I like Kristan Higgins so much is she writes light fun chick lit romances without slapping some tanned up beefcake on the cover. Maybe someday I'll get up the nerve to read one of those books, but very likely in my Kindle Fire so no one can see the beefcake cover. So long as I don't run out of Kristan Higgins stories, the beefcake covers have to wait. Sometimes when there's just too much crap going on in life, books like this are fantastic escapism. Curling up on the couch in a pair of pajammy jams (pajamas for those who don't speak my borderline LOLcats language) with a Kristan Higgins book is just the ticket. Or perhaps taking her in the bathtub for a good soak if you don't mind laying in your own soup. Whichever you prefer, she's like a pint of Ben and Jerry's...pure comfort food. Some of the stuff I read is pretty heavy. Let's not forget the fact that if I read Joyce Carol Oates one after another, lots of antidepressants would be involved. I like to vary the books I read so that I don't get bored and to please my inner child who has a bit of ADD. There's also the part about it being summer and the weather lately has been hot. Hot like a freaking toaster hot. My poor lil brain cells either needed a fun fluff read or for my chubby butt to sit in one of the ice cream freezers at the grocery store. I chose the first for obvious reasons.
If you're in the mood for some light romance-ish reading, check out Kristan Higgins. You might just realize that you really like her and discover a new genre of fiction to enjoy.
Recommended for fans of chick-lit romance and those needing a good beach read.
If you pay attention to and follow the RITA Awards, no doubt you know about Kristan Higgins. If not, you're missing out on a ton of fun light reads.
Until There Was You is a cute story about a woman named Posey and the bad boy she lusts after Liam. Normally, Kristan Higgins writes from one POV, but this time we are treated to Liam's as well. He's a bad boy who's not really all that bad. He's actually quite the sweetums. The bad boy part comes from his love for motorcycles and that he builds custom bikes. Posey, our heroine, is a bit of a tomboy. She owns her own business, an architectural salvage company so she's usually in work clothes. Her family also owns a German restaurant. She also had her heart squashed and trampled on by Liam while they were in high school. Liam comes back to town and stirs up all these warm melty feeling in Posey, and you probably know how the rest plays out.
Part of why I like Kristan Higgins so much is she writes light fun chick lit romances without slapping some tanned up beefcake on the cover. Maybe someday I'll get up the nerve to read one of those books, but very likely in my Kindle Fire so no one can see the beefcake cover. So long as I don't run out of Kristan Higgins stories, the beefcake covers have to wait. Sometimes when there's just too much crap going on in life, books like this are fantastic escapism. Curling up on the couch in a pair of pajammy jams (pajamas for those who don't speak my borderline LOLcats language) with a Kristan Higgins book is just the ticket. Or perhaps taking her in the bathtub for a good soak if you don't mind laying in your own soup. Whichever you prefer, she's like a pint of Ben and Jerry's...pure comfort food. Some of the stuff I read is pretty heavy. Let's not forget the fact that if I read Joyce Carol Oates one after another, lots of antidepressants would be involved. I like to vary the books I read so that I don't get bored and to please my inner child who has a bit of ADD. There's also the part about it being summer and the weather lately has been hot. Hot like a freaking toaster hot. My poor lil brain cells either needed a fun fluff read or for my chubby butt to sit in one of the ice cream freezers at the grocery store. I chose the first for obvious reasons.
If you're in the mood for some light romance-ish reading, check out Kristan Higgins. You might just realize that you really like her and discover a new genre of fiction to enjoy.
Monday
It Looked Different on the Model by Laurie Notaro
Grade: B+
Recommended for fans of Jen Lancaster and David Sedaris.
This is one delicious collection of essays from Laurie Notaro. Riotously funny at times and just meh funny other times. The hilariously funny essays more than make up for the less funny. Notaro spares no one, mainly herself in these essays that run the gamut from trying on a super cute shirt in a boutique and getting stuck in it to Ambien induced highs and neighborhood Christmas parties. Throw in a neurotic Italian mother with a penchant for forwarding emails regardless of their validity. Oh and there's a Fart Chart.
Lessons I learned while reading this:
- I probably should have waited until I was rid of the UTI from hell.
- I should not have read this while the mister is sound asleep. It took every bit of restraint not to wake him up and say you have to read this part.
- Laurie Notaro, Jen Lancaster and I have the same potty mouth, snarky sense of humor, lack of a verbal firewall, and were likely related in a past life.
- Peeing your pants from laughing so hard is no where near as funny to you as it is to the above said husband.
- I hope the bouts of insomnia do not return. Ambien me is not someone I want to meet.
If you can't read an essay about Laurie's alter ego Ambien Laurie and not snort with laughter there must be something wrong with you. Because I'm a jerk, if I were friends with someone with an Ambien prescription, I would totally be the first one calling or emailing to find out if the Ambien friend could come out and play. If you can read a well thought out Fart Chart and not think it's funny, not only is there something wrong with you but you probably had no business reading this book in the first place.
Highly recommended for anyone with a sense of humor, especially if you have found yourself in one of the same predicaments as Notaro. Getting stuck in an article of clothing that has a size tag on it from the devil is a very real issue.
Recommended for fans of Jen Lancaster and David Sedaris.
This is one delicious collection of essays from Laurie Notaro. Riotously funny at times and just meh funny other times. The hilariously funny essays more than make up for the less funny. Notaro spares no one, mainly herself in these essays that run the gamut from trying on a super cute shirt in a boutique and getting stuck in it to Ambien induced highs and neighborhood Christmas parties. Throw in a neurotic Italian mother with a penchant for forwarding emails regardless of their validity. Oh and there's a Fart Chart.
Lessons I learned while reading this:
- I probably should have waited until I was rid of the UTI from hell.
- I should not have read this while the mister is sound asleep. It took every bit of restraint not to wake him up and say you have to read this part.
- Laurie Notaro, Jen Lancaster and I have the same potty mouth, snarky sense of humor, lack of a verbal firewall, and were likely related in a past life.
- Peeing your pants from laughing so hard is no where near as funny to you as it is to the above said husband.
- I hope the bouts of insomnia do not return. Ambien me is not someone I want to meet.
If you can't read an essay about Laurie's alter ego Ambien Laurie and not snort with laughter there must be something wrong with you. Because I'm a jerk, if I were friends with someone with an Ambien prescription, I would totally be the first one calling or emailing to find out if the Ambien friend could come out and play. If you can read a well thought out Fart Chart and not think it's funny, not only is there something wrong with you but you probably had no business reading this book in the first place.
Highly recommended for anyone with a sense of humor, especially if you have found yourself in one of the same predicaments as Notaro. Getting stuck in an article of clothing that has a size tag on it from the devil is a very real issue.
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