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Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highs by Wendy Spero

liz_tippy's review against another edition

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funny fast-paced

5.0

kickpleat's review

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3.0

A quick read with filled with stories of the author's childhood. Some of the stories fell flat, but entertaining and fluffy like a pink coconutty snowball.

szeglin's review

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5.0

Hilarious. I identified strongly with several aspects of the author's personality & memories, especially the OCD-ness and the worry that adults would not believe her (me!) if she saw an alien (or ghost, in my case) that they themselves couldn't see. She blames ET, I blame Wait til Helen Comes.

andrewflack's review

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3.0

entertaining and quick read. She's pretty quirky and funky and has a weird/awesome life to tell about.

shnuggs's review

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2.0

This was another of my Powell's haul - I went a little overboard in the Humor section with the clever memoirs. I could relate to Wendy - she grew up in the 80's with her single mom in NYC. Her observations are fresh and her writing is good, but in the end, the book was just okay for me.

bibliocyclist's review

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3.0

"You know who you remind me of?" he asked. "You remind me of that small, animated paper clip on Microsoft Word. You bounce around and try to be helpful...but just end up being kinda annoying." I took this as a compliment.

debshelf's review

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3.0

Spero is a stand-up comedienne. Memoir written in the style of David Sedaris.
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