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Holy Crap but I loved this book. I read it in about 3 hours in the backyard with a (bottle) of wine.
LOL! I read it in the hot tub with a bottle of wine. Or two. Required reading, this is. I’m still laughing at the Bret Michaels method.
her mother was scared to talk about menstruation with Tina as a young girl, so she left her with a “So Your Uterus Is Shedding Its Lining!” kit
LOL! I remember those, too. We got them from our school. They were published by Johnson & Johnson and talked about how great Stayfree pads were.
I remember the horrible huge cardboard box with the one MASSIVE pad with the long flaps you safety-pinned to your underwear’s waist band. I told my daughter about those and she was horrified. “They didn’t even have wings?” AND I WALKED UPHILL BOTH WAYS.
You will TOTALLY love this book, I’m telling you. The perspective of being in a man’s world as a strong female is fabulous.
I saw your tweet about this and rushed to put it on my Kindle. The past 2 nights I’ve inadvertently woken my boyfriend up from giggling while reading in bed. Oops.
It’s too funny and too true. There are SO many sentence that are just good common sense. On of the truest lines is “It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.” That can be applied to so many things in life. too many other good lines to quote, I could go on, but I’ll save it. Otherwise I’ll end up rewriting her book here.
Hahaha, I did the same thing to my husband, but I was a jerk that made him listen as I read what made me laugh. So that happened a lot.
And absolutely re: quoting the whole thing back. I thought about what excerpt to pull-quote, and it was down to this one or the list of things she likes about her body. Or any of the letters she wrote back to the haters online. I just love her.
Oh, don’t worry, I was that jerk to my boyfriend too. I’m glad he puts up with it. But he loves Tina Fey too, so he doesn’t mind me quoting the book (too much) it was the waking up part he hated.
She’s a brilliant, sexy, funny lady and I wish I could obtain that level of classy.
Excellent review, I can’t wait to get this book.
And my mom didn’t breastfeed me or my brothers either, and only one of us didn’t graduate high school on time! Suck on THAT, distended boob hippies.
Wait, you can read this and you weren’t breastfed? WOW. You must have been a super baby – imagine how much smarter you would have been, woe. (Lol.) The book is GREATNESS.
Have you read Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants by Jill Soloway? You might like it.
I have not, but I will look into that, thanks for the recommendation!
You had me at “or neighborhood dogs may try to”. No rhyme or reason, I just couldn’t help laughing. And, that, is why I read. There’s the thinking part too, but, I digress. Thanks.
Jason, that’s when I almost drowned, that passage right there. I think she’s one of the funniest people on the planet. Can’t recommend this book enough, it’s fantastic.
Loved the book to bits! It was the first book I downloaded to my new Kindle and I couldn’t be happier with either. I think the friend thing has to happen, I mean she can’t have security with her alll the time, right?
I think you should spend the next few months tracking her moves and learning her schedule so you can show up at the same coffee houses, etc. and act surprised that you have so much in common, fall in love, she’ll realize the deception the hour before she walks down the aisle, but you’ll make her realize that she fell in love with the REAL you, the one you always wanted to be. The one with the sewn on face of her high school boyfriend. MOST ROMANTIC THING EVER.
Obviously Kate Hudson needs to play the part of her sassy, free spirit best friend. Ooooh, THAT’S the face you sew on! Genius.