false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171863772m/123910.jpg 123910 2 <p> Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. Plunging headlong into America's deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents' <i>Leave It to Beaver values</i>, Lisick makes her adult home on the fringe of mainstream culture and finds it rich with paradox and humor. On the one hand, she lives in "Brokeley" with drug dealers and street gangs; on the other, she drives a station wagon with a baby seat in the back, makes her own chicken stock, and attends ladies' luncheons. How exactly did this suburban girl-next-door end up as one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers of alternative culture? Lisick explains it all in her hilarious, irreverent, bestselling memoir, <i>Everybody into the Pool</i>. </p> <p> Fans of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell will relish Lisick's scathingly funny, smart, very real take on the effluvia of daily living. No matter what community she's exposing to the light, Lisick always hits the right chord. </p> 45362 2005 Everybody into the Pool: True Tales total:539|5:68|4:207|3:203|2:48|1:13| 539 1886 766 118 4 2 false false Sun Dec 30 07:29:50 -0800 2007 Wed Apr 30 07:42:36 -0700 2008
Lisick is a smart, honest writer with a very good eye for detail. The book gave me a number of laugh-out-loud...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Nov 19 12:25:30 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 11:56:50 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 27 14:33:39 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 14:43:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 08:14:25 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 08:14:25 -0800 2008
I thought a Sister Spit performer would have more interesting things to say, but Beth just wasn't all that interesting. Maybe her pieces are more exciting when she reads them aloud. I hope so. Don't get me wrong, nothing in t...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Oct 14 13:59:12 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 22 07:20:36 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Aug 14 15:37:22 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 15:38:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 24 19:25:16 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 24 19:26:07 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 13:13:09 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 14:08:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 25 11:15:20 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 11:15:27 -0700 2008
This book is not for the com...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Sep 28 15:05:52 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 15:05:52 -0700 2007 love memoirs before I start. This might make the reader aware that my review might be a tad biased by the fact that this is what I would read anyway.
Okay, that said, I'm still devastated that I lost my copy of this book, not only because I paid $25 for it (a moment of...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 18:46:18 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 18:51:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 23:15:11 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 10:13:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Mar 08 20:38:02 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 20:38:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 17:27:16 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 00:23:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 13:33:44 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 10:08:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 13:42:22 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 09:00:12 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 11:42:45 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 11:45:31 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 21:29:44 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 22:53:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 06 14:44:17 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 14:46:07 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Oct 20 16:02:09 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 16:02:09 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=123910