Hi everyone! Hope you are all well and enjoying the start of summer. It's already breaking 100 here, so staying in an AC building/home and reading is a great way to stay out of the heat. :)
If you have had a chance to read it, please let us know what you think!
I'm almost finished reading this book. I will admit the descriptions of her Fathers Taxidermy business started to turn me off and I skipped certain sections for that reason. I mean it was funny up to a point and then it got sick.
ReplyDeletehahaha!!! Yes, I agree!
DeleteI thought this was a very funny book, but there were parts that I didn't enjoy. Starting with the best:
ReplyDeleteI like her style of writing. Just a stream of consciousness being put down on paper. I found all of her footnotes quite funny, especially when it came to her editor saying not to write this or that.
I liked her use of family pictures. it made me realize just how nutty her family was. haha!
I loved her dedication: "I want to thank everyone who helped me create this book, except for that guy who yelled at me in Kmart when i was eight because he thought I was being 'too rowdy'. You're an a$$hole, sir." HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Chapter one, I was a Three-year-old Arsonist, starts out with a bang. I loved this line: "I grew up a poor black girl in New York. Except replace 'black' with 'white' and "new York' with "rural Texas'. The 'poor' part can stay." I don't know why I found that part so funny but I did.
I think the conversations with her sister are hilarious. I do enjoy her ability to just say things as they are. Again, that could be for the book.
Parts I didn't like: taxidermy over and over, but that's just me.
Calling her husband an a$$hole a lot, and to his face. There are times when I've gotten really pissed off at the hubs, and called him names under my breath or in my head, but I would never say that to him or about him to others. I just found that really disrespectful. But again that's me and I'm not judging anyone. I just didn't like that and had that been my spouse saying that to me, I would have been loooooong gone.
Sometimes, the stories dragged and the book could have been shorter, but all in all it was entertaining and I got some good laughs.