Authors: Laurie Notaro
ISBN-13: 9780375760921, ISBN-10: 037576092X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Laurie Notaro was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She packed her bags for Eugene, Oregon, once she realized that since she was past thirty, her mother could no longer report her as a teenage runaway. She is the author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club, Autobiography of a Fat Bride, I Love Everybody, We Thought You Would Be Prettier, An Idiot Girl’s Christmas, and the novel There’s a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell.
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life.
Notaro's first book, The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club (2002), achieved cult status and became a surprise best-seller. Returning with another uproarious collection of personal essays from the dating front, Notaro proves that her first-time success wasn't a fluke. Detailing her trip down the bumpy road to matrimony, Notaro outrageously entertains with a sweetly skewed outlook on everything from breaded meats to baby wipes. Having endured boyfriends from hell and survived kamikaze-style dating, Notaro does the unthinkable by getting someone to fall in love with her! This, in Notaro's world, is not the equivalent of the Holy Grail. First there are in-laws to impress and weddings to plan, both without inflicting bodily harm or doing jail time. Next come the challenges of permanent cohabitation, with its surprise revelations of untoward bodily functions and appearances. Finally, there are the joys of first-time home ownership and joint income-tax filing. Notaro tackles them all with the inimitable, acerbic wit and ruthless, self-deprecating candor that have deservedly earned her legions of loyal fans.Carol Haggas
It's Not You, It's Me | 3 | |
Super Idiot Girl: The Sad Life and Lonely Times of Princess Enabler | 12 | |
You Never Call Me | 16 | |
The Good Guy | 22 | |
Dog Girl Bites Back | 28 | |
The Fat Bride Is Not a Happy Magic Marker | 34 | |
Hair of the Dog | 40 | |
Dreading the Wedding | 44 | |
Naked with a Stranger | 48 | |
The Suck of Bridal G-Force | 53 | |
Don't Drink the Kool-Aid | 56 | |
Dead Bride Walking | 60 | |
"If You Get Divorced Within a Year, You Owe Your Father $35.78 a Dinner Times Two Hundred": Words of Wisdom on My Wedding Day | 63 | |
It Takes Guts | 74 | |
Grin and Bare It | 78 | |
I Think at Night It Flies | 82 | |
Sweet Ride | 86 | |
Marathon Man | 90 | |
My Poor Sister | 94 | |
Following Instructions | 97 | |
The M&M, the Bee, and the Man Baby | 101 | |
Burning the Bra | 104 | |
The Lonely, Brown House | 108 | |
Erica's Moving Adventure | 111 | |
The Squatter | 114 | |
A Pound of Flesh | 118 | |
Home Sweat Home | 123 | |
Spooky Little Girl Like You | 127 | |
The Little King | 131 | |
What's on That Dog's Butt? | 135 | |
Red Mice | 139 | |
The Hands of Death | 143 | |
The Slattern's Blue Panties | 147 | |
White Noise, White Soap, and Man Desire: Marriage Advice from Two Mean Girls | 151 | |
As Time Goes By | 155 | |
Enough with the Love: Aberrant Tales of an Absolutely and Completely Normal Family (as Told to My Therapist) | 160 | |
Jingle Hell | 164 | |
The Dead Zone | 170 | |
Peace, You Stupid Asshole | 174 | |
My Mother, My Self, My God | 178 | |
It Only Says That on the Box | 185 | |
The Craft Toothbrush | 194 | |
The Littlest Operative | 198 | |
You Make Me Sick | 202 | |
Big Black Bastard | 206 | |
Boys and Girlas | 211 | |
Pissing Off the Pee Taker | 215 | |
What Drugs Can Do to a Family | 219 | |
You Have Already Been Preapproved for a Decline | 222 | |
Tiger Woods Doesn't Know Where I Live | 226 | |
I Think Someone Forgot About My Needs | 232 | |
Queen Bee | 235 | |
Thirty-fffff | 239 | |
Walk All Over You | 243 | |
Acknowledgments | 255 |