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karenchase's review against another edition
3.0
I found the first few essays in this collection entertaining but they quickly began to feel rather one-note, and it wasn't a note I needed to revisit over and over. I was glad to put this down when I reached the end.
emscji's review
3.0
1/20/2012: Merrill Markoe is hilarious--she kept me reading and laughing (quietly, to myself, I was on a crowded airplane) to the end. This new collection of her essays was a (very nice) Kindle Christmas present; I had never heard of her before, and now I'm glad I have! (Makes me feel younger…!) As she points out, the funniest jokes spring from negative experience--and those are the funniest parts of the book, when she is describing her awful relationship with her mother. Black humor for sure, but she's good at it--incredibly articulate--and it sounds so very familiar. Her conversations with her dogs are my other favorite essays. Though her musings on the difficulty of finding appropriate (and non-narcissistic) boyfriends are also great…hmm. Maybe I'll have to reconsider….
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