Lori B. Duff follows up her bestselling books “Mismatched Shoes and Upside Down Pizza” and “The Armadillo, the Pickaxe, and the Laundry Basket” with this 2017 eLit Gold Medal Winner for humor. This hilarious collection of essays will make you laugh out loud and nod with recognition.Here’s what people are saying:“Lori Duff fully admits to having a high tolerance for shenanigans and an inability to … and an inability to feel shame while making a fool of herself. Those traits combine to make a hilarious, and sometimes tender, book full of stories about a modern mother and her ever-challenging life….Lori’s quick wit and charm will definitely win you over.” – Keith Stewart, author of Bernadette Peters Hates Me
“Take a peek inside Lori Duff’s hectic but happy life and realize you’re not alone in trying to balance work, family, marriage and home. With hilarious anecdotes and brutal honesty, she finishes her legal work while making chicken soup and leaves to chaperone a student trip to the Hotel of Doom. Laughing with Lori could become a welcome habit.” – Elaine Ambrose, author of Midlife Cabernet and Midlife Happy Hour
“About halfway through this book I realized that Lori Duff is saying a lot of smart and true and salient things WHILE she’s making me laugh out loud until my stomach hurts.” – Mary Patterson Thornburg, author of The Kura and A Glimmer of Guile
“If Erma Bombeck and Andy Rooney had a secret love child and she grew up to be a writer, it would be Lori Duff. Enjoy this funny, sweet, ironic collection of essays.” –Heather J. McAdams, author of Desolation Sound
“Duff embraces her middle-aged, working-mom role with gusto and Erma Bombeck-esque humor in her latest sidesplitter, a page turner that’ll have you shaking your head in agreement one minute; laughing your head off the next.” – Allia Zobel Nolan, author of Women Who Still Love Cats Too Much
“Lori Duff’s essays get to the point quickly….She speaks for many other working middle-aged moms who “only want to be left alone” and are certainly “too old for overtime.” Duff’s book is heartfelt, laugh-out-loud funny and ends with this sage advice: “Forgiving is healthy. Forgetting is for fools.” – Gianetta Palmer, author of Reflections on a Middle Aged Fat Woman
“Whether she’s inventing hysterical television game shows for couples, creating witty public service announcements, drafting the new Bill of Parents’ Rights, or imparting her famous chicken soup recipe in amusing narrative form, Lori Duff’s uproarious voice-of-reason will resonate long after you’ve read her cover-to-cover.” – Stephanie D. Lewis, author of Lullabies & Alibis
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I’m a lover of self-depricating memoirs. This one was just not quite funny enough to make me want to read more of her stuff.
I don’t usually like posting negative comments, but this book was not funny or entertaining at all. Instead, it just felt like one big complaint/rant. I couldn’t bring myself to read it past the first chapter. Yes, parenting is hard, and you need to keep a goid sense of humor about some of the mishaps along the way, but I didn’t feel like that’s what this book was doing. Maybe it would be funnier as an audio book so some of the humor gets lost in book form, but I was just not entertained.
Mom’s everywhere can relate. Cute and fun read.
Very enjoyable
Lots of great laughs. I enjoyed this.
the author is extremely funny. I enjoyed picking this book up and reading a few chapters at a time. There is no plot or story line so I didn’t get totally drawn in, but when I needed something light to read, it was great.
Very first person, real and really funny.
I LOVED this book. Lori Duff is hysterical and honest. I laughed until I couldn’t read because tears ran down my face. She’s very, very funny.
Her stories helped me remember we are all doing the best we can with what we have!
Thought to be cute but not really. Slice of life.
Laughed all the way through…couldn’t put it down, cured my case of the blues!
Horribly written. Couldn’t get past the second chapter.
Funny.
flat…
This is one of the histerically funny books I have ready lately. I would try to put it down to watch the news just to pick it back up and mute the news one more time. Who cares what was on the commercials – who listens to them anyway – I never have and never intend to, I do try to catch the one Subaru one with the little red haired girl sitting in the back yard because she certainly looks a lot like my little niece Dylan O’Malley. Her mom swears she never got her into a commercial but she is probably raking in the money from her residuals and not letting her little kid know about it. Just saying.
Not as entertaining as expected.
The only thing about this book is that I got bored with reading about this lady’s minutia and thought “I could write a book”. It was funny but just seemed to drag on and on and I kept checking to see how many more chapters I had to read to finish. I could relate to her stories.
Entertaining.
I now realize im really not crazy!
I expected this to be really funny based on the title. But it was so over-worded, that it became redundant and silly