Laurie Notaro
fun book from Laurie Notaro! The chapter where she realizes that size M and an L are very different and her dressing room antics had tears running down my face!
And who hasnt gotten those FWDFWDFWDFWD from your parents or inlaws with every hoax available to man and no matter how many times you tell them its a hoax they still send them along to you!
Ambien Laurie is freaking hilarious and makes me wonder what this drug is supposed to do because it didnt seem to help her sleep!
I enjoy Lauries sense of humor its sardonic and sarcastic and I can relate to her very well.
Lauries books are fun and will make you laugh if you like sarcastic humor,
As usual Hilary Huber does a great job at the narration!
Stars
The first word that comes to mind here is "hysterical," EXCEPT that Laurie Notaro is one of those authors who will know that when the word "hysterical" is used, correct grammar dictates it to describe a person, and NOT a synonym for "funny.
" If someone says, "Oh, she's hysterical," this is not a nice thing, It means that the person in question is behaving in ways that, in previous centuries, would land women in sanitariums for life.
Examples of such behavior are:
For further questions, don't forget to call your local asylum today!
Well, anyway, these days we all can relate! Perhaps this book IS hysterical.
Definitely laughoutloud funny. I feel sympathy for Laurie Notaro because her internal voices are MEAN, She's a tough cookie, though, She can handle it because her family raised her to handle almost anything, Warm yet ruthless.
Quote from Laurie's mother: "You don't just open a coffeemaker and pour a gallon of water in the first hole you see.
It's not a girl at the bar, " What kind of bars does she go to
Laurie's take on her preteen nephew: "I figured if you're old enough to go to the bathroom for forty minutes with the door closed and you really ARE just reading a magazine, you're old enough to figure out what a pair of pants looks like folded up.
" Kids these days, amirite
From the Trade Paperback edition, Meh. I guess it's okay when you are on a plane with nothing else to read, but otherwise I wouldn't ave finished it.
Ambien shenanigans. Tweekers falling asleep on your front lawn, Getting into a fight with a size “M” shirt at a boutique store and losing, All just moments in the life of Laurie Notaro, a humor writer transplanted from sunny Arizona to the hippielaced suburbs of Oregon.
And in her latest memoir, It Looked Different On The Model, Notaro welcomes us again into the zany world that is her noholdsbarred brain.
Notaro has been my hero for quite some time and though I couldnt get into her recent novel, Im still a huge fan of her truetolife, hilarious stories.
No one makes me giggle like Notaro, and some of her scenes in this one especially those including “Ambien Laurie” will forever be embedded in my brain.
Her line about a monkey rooting through purse trash Comedy gold,
That being said, is this Notaros finest work Nope, Laurie is at her best when shes making fun of herself and relating stories of “impending shame and infamy,” as her title suggests.
The only problem here is that while a few of her recent tales had me in stitches, the vast majority just sort of.
. . rambled along with no real goal or intention, Just between you and me, friends, I may have skimmed over a few, Like the open letter to her alleged
iPhone thief I mean, I love my phone I really do, But page after page of that drivel Eh,
But I still love you, Laurie and I still desperately wish you could be my BFF, Wed make snarky comments about our neighbors and speculate over which crazy acquaintance is really a drug addict and gripe about our weight.
It would be a grand old time,
I read this book quickly and recommend it and her to fans of Jen Lancaster and Valerie Frankel, If youre looking for laughoutloud memoirs that remind you we really are all human, Laurie Notaro could well be your girl, I recommend starting with We Thought You Would Be Prettier, my first experience with Notaro but if youre a stickler for reading chronologically, first check out The Idiot Girls Action Adventure Club.
Laurie doesnt take herself too seriously, and thats what I love about her, Shes a hilarious mess. This book was entertaining and fun, It wasn't quite as good as Notaro's earlier books, several of which made me laugh so hard that passengers on three planes had to wonder if an escaped mental patient was on board.
I can't put my finger on exactly why "It Looked Different, . . " didn't live up to the hilarity of Notaro's previous books of essays, but maybe it seemed she was trying a little too hard this time.
It can't be that we get less funny as we get older, can it Still, this book is a pleasant way to pass the time, with essays of just the right length and depth to read amidst interruptions.
I can't give a plot summary of this book because I didn't get past page, There are some books that don't grab my interest right away, but I keep reading to see if I am missing something or I put it aside and come back later when my mind is cleared.
I want to give it a fair chance, and very often, I am glad I did, This book was a disaster for me,
At the beginning and keep in mind, I didn't get much past that Laurie finds herself stuck in an adorable blouse, marked down to a bargain price, but too small.
Ok. I have had a zipper get stuck or I have had a pair of slacks that just didn't quite make it past my hips.
It is frustrating, embarrassing, and disappointing, So that part seemed real and I could see the humor in the situation, The problem was, the escapade went on and on and long descriptive imaginary dialogue between her "nice voice" and her "mean voice".
Laurie ends up buying the too small, by then bloody blouse due to her struggle and a too small slip as well to cover up for her battle in the dressing room.
Immediately following in chapter, Laurie becomes known as "Ambien Laurie", It seems that she takes Ambien as a sleep aid, wakes up in the night and becomes a serial internet shopper as well as a compulsive eater.
She makes long phone calls to friends that she doesn't remember, The Ambien also causes her to have unbelievable dreams about Fart Charts, Really and men covered in marsupial fur keeping cheeseburgers warm under their man boobs, I can't get this picture out of my mind, Ewsitelinkwww.
That was the end for me, I was prepared for a light, fun read, There have been many welldone stories about women and their struggles with their weight issues, I was hoping for an uplifting positive story and this one may well have been just that, but I couldn't get past the rambling descriptions and the rather disgusting scenarios.
I didn't understand after a few pages where this story was going, but I didn't want to stick with it to find out.
Other reviews have raved about the quirky humor of Notaro, but she is just not the author for me, Wow, this is just so bad and not funny,
Perhaps the humor fromdoes not stand the test of time,.Some of the essays were hillarious and some were not that great, I felt like she was really stretching it on some of them and trying to hard like the one where she lost her phone and the one about her mom sending emails to her.
But, I will still read more of her stuff when she releases it, All, in all, this cements my view that, though her writing is funny, she can't touch David Sedaris, Worth buying but I'm glad I didn't pay full price, This book was not exactly what I was expecting but that's OK, Rather than a continuing story, it is a collection of short stories based on the author's experiences, How much you enjoy it will depend on how much you can relate and if your sense of humor matches, I most enjoyed the dressing room experience and the description of her vocallychallenged family, "I do not come from a family of singers, When we get together and warble "Happy Birthday" to one another over cake and candle, it doesn't sound as much like a song as it does a pack of jackals yapping over a fresh carcass.
And in my case, it's nothing that you want to inflict on the innocent, or at least on people who haven't reported us to the city yet.
Who is flat, offkey or tone deaf in the Notaro clan is all up in the airit doesn't matter, and we can't tell, anyway.
" This served the purpose of the light read I was looking for but is not something I would rave about, Dear Laurie Notaro,
I've loved most of your books, except your last fiction book, I was very excited that you were putting out another collection of humorous short stories, However, I felt that some of the stories in this book were a bit lacking, There were plenty of funny ones, sure, but a couple of them were very tough to follow and didn't make a lot of sense.
I would give this book lower, but it gets three because it did have a few stories that made me chuckle.
Your sort of fan,
Brian It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy by Laurie Notaro
Ive pretty much read every Laurie Notaro book, and as usual, this one did not disappoint in the least.
In fact, I would say that this is one of my favorite by her, She is hilarious. If you enjoy Jen Lancaster, this is no way you cant enjoy Notaro and vise versa,
The situations that Laurie gets herself into are too funny, I found myself laughing on several occasions while reading this book.
They are also situations that one can see themselves getting into, For the most part, they arent over top, making her very relatable, I would recommend this for anyone looking for some humor, Its a fun, quick read, I know I had trouble putting it down, I was even disappointed that sleep finally took over at several points being super sick and on sleepy meds does that because it meant putting down the book.
I look forward to her next book being released this coming week on,
.
And who hasnt gotten those FWDFWDFWDFWD from your parents or inlaws with every hoax available to man and no matter how many times you tell them its a hoax they still send them along to you!
Ambien Laurie is freaking hilarious and makes me wonder what this drug is supposed to do because it didnt seem to help her sleep!
I enjoy Lauries sense of humor its sardonic and sarcastic and I can relate to her very well.
Lauries books are fun and will make you laugh if you like sarcastic humor,
As usual Hilary Huber does a great job at the narration!
Stars
The first word that comes to mind here is "hysterical," EXCEPT that Laurie Notaro is one of those authors who will know that when the word "hysterical" is used, correct grammar dictates it to describe a person, and NOT a synonym for "funny.
" If someone says, "Oh, she's hysterical," this is not a nice thing, It means that the person in question is behaving in ways that, in previous centuries, would land women in sanitariums for life.
Examples of such behavior are:
For further questions, don't forget to call your local asylum today!
Well, anyway, these days we all can relate! Perhaps this book IS hysterical.
Definitely laughoutloud funny. I feel sympathy for Laurie Notaro because her internal voices are MEAN, She's a tough cookie, though, She can handle it because her family raised her to handle almost anything, Warm yet ruthless.
Quote from Laurie's mother: "You don't just open a coffeemaker and pour a gallon of water in the first hole you see.
It's not a girl at the bar, " What kind of bars does she go to
Laurie's take on her preteen nephew: "I figured if you're old enough to go to the bathroom for forty minutes with the door closed and you really ARE just reading a magazine, you're old enough to figure out what a pair of pants looks like folded up.
" Kids these days, amirite
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Everyones favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether its in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mannequin but leaves her in a literal bind or in her neighborhood after shes shamefully exposed at a holiday party by delivering a lowquality rendition of “Jingle Bells.
” Notaro makes misstep after riotous misstep as she shares tales of marriage and family, including stories about the dogbark translator that deciphers Notaros and her husbands own “woofs” a little too accurately, the emails from her mother with “FWD” in the subject line “which in email code means Forecasting World Destruction”, and the deadofnight shopping sprees and Devil Dogdevouring monkeyshines of a creature known as “Ambien Laurie.
” At every turn, Notaros pluck and irresistible candor set the New York Times bestselling author on a journey thats laughoutloud funny and utterly unforgettable.
From the Trade Paperback edition, Meh. I guess it's okay when you are on a plane with nothing else to read, but otherwise I wouldn't ave finished it.
Ambien shenanigans. Tweekers falling asleep on your front lawn, Getting into a fight with a size “M” shirt at a boutique store and losing, All just moments in the life of Laurie Notaro, a humor writer transplanted from sunny Arizona to the hippielaced suburbs of Oregon.
And in her latest memoir, It Looked Different On The Model, Notaro welcomes us again into the zany world that is her noholdsbarred brain.
Notaro has been my hero for quite some time and though I couldnt get into her recent novel, Im still a huge fan of her truetolife, hilarious stories.
No one makes me giggle like Notaro, and some of her scenes in this one especially those including “Ambien Laurie” will forever be embedded in my brain.
Her line about a monkey rooting through purse trash Comedy gold,
That being said, is this Notaros finest work Nope, Laurie is at her best when shes making fun of herself and relating stories of “impending shame and infamy,” as her title suggests.
The only problem here is that while a few of her recent tales had me in stitches, the vast majority just sort of.
. . rambled along with no real goal or intention, Just between you and me, friends, I may have skimmed over a few, Like the open letter to her alleged
iPhone thief I mean, I love my phone I really do, But page after page of that drivel Eh,
But I still love you, Laurie and I still desperately wish you could be my BFF, Wed make snarky comments about our neighbors and speculate over which crazy acquaintance is really a drug addict and gripe about our weight.
It would be a grand old time,
I read this book quickly and recommend it and her to fans of Jen Lancaster and Valerie Frankel, If youre looking for laughoutloud memoirs that remind you we really are all human, Laurie Notaro could well be your girl, I recommend starting with We Thought You Would Be Prettier, my first experience with Notaro but if youre a stickler for reading chronologically, first check out The Idiot Girls Action Adventure Club.
Laurie doesnt take herself too seriously, and thats what I love about her, Shes a hilarious mess. This book was entertaining and fun, It wasn't quite as good as Notaro's earlier books, several of which made me laugh so hard that passengers on three planes had to wonder if an escaped mental patient was on board.
I can't put my finger on exactly why "It Looked Different, . . " didn't live up to the hilarity of Notaro's previous books of essays, but maybe it seemed she was trying a little too hard this time.
It can't be that we get less funny as we get older, can it Still, this book is a pleasant way to pass the time, with essays of just the right length and depth to read amidst interruptions.
I can't give a plot summary of this book because I didn't get past page, There are some books that don't grab my interest right away, but I keep reading to see if I am missing something or I put it aside and come back later when my mind is cleared.
I want to give it a fair chance, and very often, I am glad I did, This book was a disaster for me,
At the beginning and keep in mind, I didn't get much past that Laurie finds herself stuck in an adorable blouse, marked down to a bargain price, but too small.
Ok. I have had a zipper get stuck or I have had a pair of slacks that just didn't quite make it past my hips.
It is frustrating, embarrassing, and disappointing, So that part seemed real and I could see the humor in the situation, The problem was, the escapade went on and on and long descriptive imaginary dialogue between her "nice voice" and her "mean voice".
Laurie ends up buying the too small, by then bloody blouse due to her struggle and a too small slip as well to cover up for her battle in the dressing room.
Immediately following in chapter, Laurie becomes known as "Ambien Laurie", It seems that she takes Ambien as a sleep aid, wakes up in the night and becomes a serial internet shopper as well as a compulsive eater.
She makes long phone calls to friends that she doesn't remember, The Ambien also causes her to have unbelievable dreams about Fart Charts, Really and men covered in marsupial fur keeping cheeseburgers warm under their man boobs, I can't get this picture out of my mind, Ewsitelinkwww.
That was the end for me, I was prepared for a light, fun read, There have been many welldone stories about women and their struggles with their weight issues, I was hoping for an uplifting positive story and this one may well have been just that, but I couldn't get past the rambling descriptions and the rather disgusting scenarios.
I didn't understand after a few pages where this story was going, but I didn't want to stick with it to find out.
Other reviews have raved about the quirky humor of Notaro, but she is just not the author for me, Wow, this is just so bad and not funny,
Perhaps the humor fromdoes not stand the test of time,.Some of the essays were hillarious and some were not that great, I felt like she was really stretching it on some of them and trying to hard like the one where she lost her phone and the one about her mom sending emails to her.
But, I will still read more of her stuff when she releases it, All, in all, this cements my view that, though her writing is funny, she can't touch David Sedaris, Worth buying but I'm glad I didn't pay full price, This book was not exactly what I was expecting but that's OK, Rather than a continuing story, it is a collection of short stories based on the author's experiences, How much you enjoy it will depend on how much you can relate and if your sense of humor matches, I most enjoyed the dressing room experience and the description of her vocallychallenged family, "I do not come from a family of singers, When we get together and warble "Happy Birthday" to one another over cake and candle, it doesn't sound as much like a song as it does a pack of jackals yapping over a fresh carcass.
And in my case, it's nothing that you want to inflict on the innocent, or at least on people who haven't reported us to the city yet.
Who is flat, offkey or tone deaf in the Notaro clan is all up in the airit doesn't matter, and we can't tell, anyway.
" This served the purpose of the light read I was looking for but is not something I would rave about, Dear Laurie Notaro,
I've loved most of your books, except your last fiction book, I was very excited that you were putting out another collection of humorous short stories, However, I felt that some of the stories in this book were a bit lacking, There were plenty of funny ones, sure, but a couple of them were very tough to follow and didn't make a lot of sense.
I would give this book lower, but it gets three because it did have a few stories that made me chuckle.
Your sort of fan,
Brian It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy by Laurie Notaro
Ive pretty much read every Laurie Notaro book, and as usual, this one did not disappoint in the least.
In fact, I would say that this is one of my favorite by her, She is hilarious. If you enjoy Jen Lancaster, this is no way you cant enjoy Notaro and vise versa,
The situations that Laurie gets herself into are too funny, I found myself laughing on several occasions while reading this book.
They are also situations that one can see themselves getting into, For the most part, they arent over top, making her very relatable, I would recommend this for anyone looking for some humor, Its a fun, quick read, I know I had trouble putting it down, I was even disappointed that sleep finally took over at several points being super sick and on sleepy meds does that because it meant putting down the book.
I look forward to her next book being released this coming week on,
.