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 a huge Erma Bombeck fan – thought I’d never read another like her til I read this book. It is laugh out loud funny. I mean people were looking at me at the coffee shop. The essay about the conference call is CLASSIC!
At a time when a good laugh is needed more than ever, this is a great book that reminds us that humor can be indeed be the best form of medicine.
Silly, not my type of book
Life stories that a parent can put him/erself into and read as if he or she has been in the same position. I was laughing out loud at some of the author’s stories and amazed at how much they paralleled my own experiences.
It was supposed to be funny but it wasn’t. Some parts of it were hugely insulting.
Good down to earth humor. Funny from beginning to end.
This author was just not my style.
A funny look at the everyday life of a working Mom, this book is a great way to relax with a smile.
Couldn’t finish it. Halfway through, but got tired of a well to do woman using slightly humorous situations to brag about her kids, life etc.
Disappointing try at humor.
Repetitive. Boring.
Did not finish, was not funny.
very fun read. Humorous essays, worth the time
This book wasn’t funny, just short unrelated parenthood stories that didn’t even make me chuckle, stopped reading half way through. Don’t bother.
Not as interesting as I thought it would be. Quit reading it at the second chapter.
I was a little bored with this book.
Funny, but not as amusing as Bombeck, or as interesting. Okay for a time-passer.
Rather formulaic and predictable.
Expected a lot since this author was compared to Erma Bombeck. Book was good just not quite the edge Bombeck delivers.
I enjoyed it while I read it, but I honestly don’t remember anything about it. Good for the beach/vacation.