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holly_keimig's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book! It was such a good read. I laughed, I almost cried, I shared snippets of reading with my Mom and friends. I always enjoyed the comic strip "Cathy" but had no idea I would love the person behind it and her stories even more. The title and cover caught my eye while walking by at B&N and I couldn't wait to pick it up. The book it written as a series of short essays/stories about her life and most are laugh-out-loud funny and sweet. A few of my favorite chapters were: "At Least I Didn't Eat a Donut", "Nobody Wants to Hear About Your Nice Clean Closet", "Don't Tell a Woman to Just Wear Jeans", "In Defense of my 2,000th Trip to the Mall", and "Mother's Soup". I highly recommend that anyone with a mother pick up this book (especially if you are a daughter, but sons would enjoy it too). I will be recommending this to lots of people at work.
mehitabels's review against another edition
5.0
I don't relate to everything, but my gods, is she speaking my language.
Hilarious, in print and in comic
Hilarious, in print and in comic
mblair8506's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this book as a fan of the Cathy comic for so many years. I enjoyed the short stories and could relate to so many of them.
nssutton's review against another edition
I was probably the world’s youngest Cathy fan. She wasn’t always my favorite strip but I still picture the wriggly lines of all her feelings whenever I am having big feelings about this. I hit a wall about half way through. I love the essays that delve into the weird space between having a grown child and aging parents, but others feel like fillers. This is a book to come and go to, but it’s just not in the cards with a looming due date and a mile high stack of books.
n_t_sh_'s review against another edition
I didn't have any previous readership of the comics and I feel this is more suited to someone with a different experience (older perhaps) than me.
offbalance80's review against another edition
2.0
I loved Cathy comics as a kid. My mom had several collections and I would read them, and there was always what I perceived a deft edge of satire and sarcasm to the strips and their take on fashion, dieting and romance. I was so excited when I found out that the author of those strips was going to write a memoir, eager to treat myself to the same wit.
What I found instead was someone with no sense of self-awareness or self-reflection at all. None of the sharpness that I remember was present, but that may be on my memory more than anything. Very disappointing.
What I found instead was someone with no sense of self-awareness or self-reflection at all. None of the sharpness that I remember was present, but that may be on my memory more than anything. Very disappointing.