The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life by Laurie Notaro Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
Book Review: Hilarious.
Summary: 5 Stars
Read this book. I guarantee you will be laughing out loud on numerous occasions, there's no stopping it. Laurie Notaro says a lot of things the rest of us are thinking. I LOVE her sarcasm and wit and will be reading any of her books that I can get my hands on.
I also enjoyed how each chapter was a new story and only a few pages long (gives you a lot of stopping places). She's very succinct and clear in her writing. You'll love it. There's nothing else quite like it.
Book Review: Testimonial from a clod
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book on the spur of the moment to read on the beach since my boy had reading material with him and I was bookless. Best spontaneous purchase ever! I think I got the worst sunburn ever because I could not put the book down for a second to pack up or move. I was doubled over in tears on the sand most of the day.
Book Review: idiot girls
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the funniest book I have ever read. After finishing it in 2 days (only putting it down because I had to go to work)I had to go online and order the rest of her books. I am recommending them to every one that I know. I am so bummed that I have to wait until November for the next one to become available. I would not recommend trying to read her books while in bed with your husband asleep next to you because you will wake him up laughing(so hard you will cry) and he will tell you to put it down or leave the room. I left the room.Book Review: A must-read for anyone post-college and pre-kids
Summary: 5 Stars
This book has appealed to everyone in their 20's and 30's I've given it to. It is laugh out loud funny, and one of the early lines that grabbed me was on p.3, "Somewhere in between being drunk yesterday and sober today, my keys disappeared." Notaro has hilarious adventures on the dating scene, the bar scene (she warns against the pitfalls of DWI's, dialing while intoxicated), dealing with her mother, finding yourself post-college, and much more. Each essay is short and can stand alone. I never wanted this book to end!
A terrific companion to this book is Notaro's 2004 book I Love Everybody (And Other Atrocious Lies). In that, Notaro writes about the process of getting Idiot Girls' published and how her newspaper career was completely unraveling during the writing of Idiot Girls. There's lots more from Notaro, and another author that Notaro fans might enjoy is Sandra Tsing Loh. Los Angelinos will especially appreciate her take on their city.
Book Review: Laugh out Loud Funny
Summary: 5 Stars
Laurie Notaro's first book (I think this is her first book) is really hysterically funny. A quick read, I finished it in a few hours. She writes of details we mostly dismiss, but finds the funny quirky part of every mundane event. The story that made me choke from coughing during my laughing fit was the one near the end about the candy apple. And I laughed hysterically without choking when I read about her tights at the gynocologist. And so many others. They were ALL funny. I really recommend this.