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CURRENTLY READING: Maximum Ride: The Final Warning by James Patterson
JUST READ: MOM'S THE WORD by E.M. Stoddard
TITLE CHALLENGE: Z ~ 1 To GoAUTHOR CHALLENGE: F I J L O Q R T U X Y Z ~ 12 To Go
2008 TOTAL READ: 43
by the_littleminx on Aug. 24, 2007 at 2:32 PM
TITLE: Me Talk Pretty One Day & Naked
AUTHOR: David Sedaris
GENRE: Essays/Humor
SYNOPSIS: These are both compilations of funny essays Sedaris has written about his life. Absolutely hilarious.
Me Talk Pretty One Day is hilarious, as any David Sedaris is.
I'll add to that Amy Sedaris' I Like You Hospitality Under the Influence. It's party hints and part silly, the juxtaposition of the two is way funny.
Also, I remember really liking Paul Reiser's Couplehood. Babyhood --not so much.
Jenny McCarthy has a book called Belly Laughs that I read and about wet my pants it was so funny. I wasn't even pg at the time, but I remembered and agreed with so much of what she talked about in that book.
Any Erma Bombeck will make you laugh, too. Especially Life is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Septic Tank.
ninipanini
TITLE: The Perils Of Sisterhood
AUTHOR: Amy Alden
GENRE: Comedy Fiction
SUMMARY: Twin sisters London and Madrid La Mira are socialites who are famous simply for being wealthy, young, and beautiful. London parties in San Francisco at her club; she leaves all the work to her manager, Lucinda, while she beds the pretty women who frequent the club. In New York, Madrid goes through men as fast as her sister goes through women, and her life is equally empty. But when the girls' wealthy grandmother tells them that they won't be getting their annual $850,000 checks until they make something of their lives, London and Madrid are faced with the prospect of gainful employment. Hoping to impress their grandmother, they try charitable work and fail miserably. But when Madrid tries her hand at matchmaking and London explores cooking, the sisters find something they'd been missing: fulfillment.
TITLE: Momzillas
AUTHOR: Jill Kargman
GENRE: Comedy Fiction
SUMMARY: The mothers on Manhattan’s chic Upper East Side are highly educated, extremely wealthy, and very competitive. They throw themselves and all of their energy and resources into full-time child-rearing, turning their kids into the unwitting pawns in a game where success is measured in precocious achievements, jam-packed schedules, and elite private school pedigrees.
Hannah Foster has recently moved to the neighborhood with her New York City–bred investment banker husband and their two-year-old daughter, Lucy. She’s immediately inundated by an outpouring of advice from her not-so-well-intentioned new friends and her overbearing, socially conscious mother-in-law, who coach her on matters ranging from where to buy the must-have $300 baby dress to how to get into the only pre-pre-preschool that counts. Despite her better instincts and common sense, Hannah soon finds herself caught up in the competitive whirl of high-stakes mothering.
Jill Kargman, who grew up on the Upper East Side and now lives there with her husband and daughter, is the ideal chronicler of the lives of New York’s ultra-rich and ultra-ambitious. She captures the mores, the conversations, and the back-stabbing with supreme ease, and creates in Hannah a wonderfully sympathetic heroine. A wickedly funny and spot-on portrait of some decidedly over-the-top moms, Momzillas is the perfect follow-up to The Right Address.
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Good series
- j_l_b
on Jun. 21, 2008 at 5:53 PM