Laurie Notaro Spreads the Joy of Christmas
Written: Aug 23 '07 (Updated Aug 24 '07)
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Pros: laugh out loud funny
Cons: might offend some
The Bottom Line: A hilarious look at Christmas with Laurie Notaro.
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| cmaw63's Full Review: Laurie Notaro - An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Ta... |
Family, friend, or stranger...no one is safe from Laurie Notaro's sarcastic humor. She spins portions of her life into humorous, irreverent stories that most women can relate to. Her "Idiot Girl's" series include verbal jabs at everything and everyone. Female and house plumbing, mothers, children, check out line strangers, buying a home, and more are offered up as sacrifices to the funny bone. Even Christmas isn't safe.
*Warning: Men may find out more than they care to know about the variety of feminine products.*
An Idiot Girl's Christmas
I am going to start this review with how the book ends. It is the about the author blurb that will give you an idea of who Laurie Notaro is. "Laurie Notaro loves Christmas, despite the fact that last year she was the unfortunate recipient of a jar of previously owned bath salts and an XXL sweatshirt with a snowman on it. She does not subscribe to the saying, "It's the thought that counts" when the thought is actually "If I clean it off and put a bow on it, she won't know I used this"...".
Some books are smile funny, others elicit a chuckle. An Idiot Girl's Christmas had me laughing out loud. When my husband asked me what I was laughing about I tried to read an excerpt of the book where, on Christmas Eve, Laurie is trying to figure out what kind of feminine pads she needs from the neighborhood Super Kmart. Regular, long, mini, maxi, wings, or no wings and the multitude of other choices made for a very funny chapter. My husband only made it through two sentences before he was begging me to stop reading it out loud. Of course, that only made it all the more humorous to me.
Holiday gatherings with the family, hostessing her own Christmas party, and past office parties were fuel for Laurie Notaro stories. She turns holiday encounters with her husband, mother, nana, friends, and strangers into amazingly funny anecdotes. Who else could find humor in trying to figure out whether a man was having a seizure, overdosed, or was just weird other than Laurie?
An Idiot Girl's Christmas does have swearing, bodily functions, excessive consumption of alcohol, and other possibly offensive material included in it. Women (and daring men) should be prepared for the anything goes approach that Laurie Notaro uses in her writings. Just because this is a book with Christmas stories, the reader shouldn't expect it to be a softer, gentler style. I believe that having read some of her other books it allowed me to appreciate the stories in this one more than I would have. I was already acquainted with most of the people she wrote about. Knowing their backgrounds and supposed idiosyncrasies gave these new (to me) stories a deeper humor.
If you aren't the sensitive type, enjoy a bawdy look at real life, and can find humor in even the mundane...you will love An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales From the Top of the Naughty List.
Other Laurie Notaro Books
Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
Recommended:
Yes
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