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The World According to Mimi Smartypants
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Just who is this Mimi Smartypants, anyway? "
She's 30 (but looks younger), 5'1" (but looks taler). She's never faced a situation she couldn't comment about -- especialy online She lives in Chicago with her husband, LT, and her large cat, The Cat -- not to be confused with Kat (female friend, good for fashion advice, philosophical discussions, and getting
...morePaperback, 237 pages
Published
January 1st 2006
by Avon Books
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This book is basically an archive of excerpts from the blog at smartypants.diaryland.com, which is one of the most popular personal blogs, and one which I've been compulsively reading for years. Does it work as a book? I dunno; Kind of. I actually bought it for two reasons. Firstly as a historical document. I think in even a few short years, we're going to forget what was so cool about blogging, just like it's hard to explain why Ham radio was so cool, now that everyone has a cell phone. And B, ...more
Before I read Mimi's views on the world, I thought I was alone! She has a wry sense of humor and a quirky view on the world at large.
My views on religion may differ from hers, but that didn't keep me for enjoying her lists, links and life as she interprets it.
Since reading this book, I have been following her online diary and laughing til I pee a little. I have also started a live journal of my own for venting, and a public blog for standing on a soap box before the worl...more
My views on religion may differ from hers, but that didn't keep me for enjoying her lists, links and life as she interprets it.
Since reading this book, I have been following her online diary and laughing til I pee a little. I have also started a live journal of my own for venting, and a public blog for standing on a soap box before the worl...more
I reread this book because after 'One good turn' i needed something not so complex with all the characters.
I like diaries because of the everyday observations. Sometimes i wish i wasnt so lazy to document the crazies on my train every morning etc.
I like the words in this book too. That makes no sense - like why i like the words in this book more than others. But i do.
I like diaries because of the everyday observations. Sometimes i wish i wasnt so lazy to document the crazies on my train every morning etc.
I like the words in this book too. That makes no sense - like why i like the words in this book more than others. But i do.
I'm a bit biased as I know Mimi, but she's just hilarious and witty. This is especially fun if you're a Chicagoan or a Knoxer.
I was expecting this to be somewhat more entertaining, per say. I think I had in my mind a "Sex and the City" narration, or even a "Julie/Julia"... however this seems to be exactly what it is, a random woman's thoughts that are somewhat jumbled, uninteresting and mundane.
I struggled to finish it and only did so for two reasons, I wanted to see if it got any better (it didn't) and I hate starting a book and not finishing it.
I wouldn't exactly recommend thi...more
I struggled to finish it and only did so for two reasons, I wanted to see if it got any better (it didn't) and I hate starting a book and not finishing it.
I wouldn't exactly recommend thi...more
Hilarious. Read it on plane rides to and from Vegas. I'm telling you, you just haven't experienced Vegas until you've Mimi Smartypants-ified yourself. I mean, you look over at the casinos as your plane taxis up the runway, and you think, "I wish I knew what Mimi would make of Vegas." So get on that, Mimi Smartypants, OK?
This isn't something you have to sit and read and "find out what happens" - it is just a diary, snippits you can read a few minutes at a time. I am amazed at the weird ass things Mimi says that are JUST LIKE THE WEIRD ASS THINGS I SAY! Stupid things like "snot rag" - my mom and brother still carry those, and I'm fascinated that she calls it that too. I actually read several days entries to the hubby, who thought they were just as funny as I did (one in particular about bed...more
This is just some of Mimi Smartypants' earlier blog postings in book form. I love Mimi, she's the kind of cool that I always wished I could be. It doesn't exactly have a plot, it's just her random thoughts, but it's funny. I would recommend just reading her blog, though. It's better.
I'm sitting alone in my apartment reading this little book and LAUGHING OUT LOUD. Totally embarassing but totally wonderful. Don't walk, RUN to your nearest bookstore and PURCHASE this book.
I just could not get into this (yes, i know it is just snipits from a blog). I think I like taking in Mimi's humor in smaller doses by reading her blog occassionaly.
Sara Walsh
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Well, I'm obsessed with the blog, and the book was $2.00. I enjoyed the stuff I hadn't already read, and I really liked the Pink High Heels! hee.
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I love diary fiction but this was over the top campy and was kinda irritating. I know it is fiction but it was just so much out there stuff it was not funny just sad.
So great. But it's all straight from mimismartypants.com, so you can read that for the awesomeness.
I heard this was a MUST READ. It was terrible and a definite DO NOT READ, in my opinion.
Ariel
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Recommends it for:
bloggers, aging punks, chicagoans, cynics, OCD suffers, lovers of fine ascerbic wits and wines
Mimi can talk down her book all she wants ("Embarrassing!" seems to be her most frequent response to being an author), but this book is funny and inspiring. Mimi always encourages me to take my own humor writing over the edge of absurdism. The true magic in her writing is that she takes a joke farther, and farther, and just when you're like "Oh ha ha -- way to take it there!" she takes it a half step farther and you're all "Oh oops, I peed myself."
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I already read the blog this book comes from, but I had no idea she had a book until a month ago. Mimi Smartypants is smart, opinionated, funny, and assertive. She is a lot of things I'm not and would (secretly) like to be. The only downside is that this is truly a diary and not fiction or a memoir--meaning that there is NO plot whatsoever to this book. It's not building toward anything. Nothing really happens in the book (she's already married, and has a good job, etc. etc.) but I had a great t...more
This is the funniest book I have read in a very long time.
I mildly enjoyed this book. Not necessarily my cup of tea, but still fun.
This book is the paperback equivalent of my favorite gummy bears from Fresh Market: it is full of empty calories, but it's so delicious you can't stop. Mimi Smartypants is a blogger from Chicago, and this plotless book is a collection of some of her wittiest entries. I checked it out of the library after a librarian, seeing me growing increasingly frustrated with a fruitless browse, thrust it into my hands and told me it would make it laugh. And it did, over and over again. Nothing wrong with gu...more
I love her blog. I would never read this book if I saw it on a shelf. The publishers did a real disservice to her, but on the other hand, they contacted her and said, hey can we print your blog? We will give you money. And so naturally she said yes.
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Pretty funny!
I found this book hard to read at times. It's main set up is like a so so blog. If you like reading blogs, which I have a couple of my own, this is the only way I see you wanting to read this book. If you are not a blog reader, this book is not for you.
This has got to be one of the funniest books I have read in a long time. It's a bunch of diary entries from a blogger named Mimi Smartypants. It's a quick fun read, with really no purpose behind it other then her sharing her views with us.
I think I found this book so entertaining because she reminds me so much of my close friends and myself. The things she says and thinks about, and some of the crazy stuff she comes up with. :0)
I laughed out loud so many times!!!
I think I found this book so entertaining because she reminds me so much of my close friends and myself. The things she says and thinks about, and some of the crazy stuff she comes up with. :0)
I laughed out loud so many times!!!
My good friend Rachel gave me this to read. Very easy, mindless read. The only thing I took issue with is having things that I though were unique to me written in a book by a blogger in Chicago. Seriously - her favorite bar, flower, foot-wear, music. Now I understand that she and I both have named our daughters the same name. Maybe I am mimi smartypants.Thanks Rach!
I found this book hilarious at times and had to stop myself from laughing out loud in public for fear of people thinking I am insane. While it's not great writing, mostly because it is a collection of her blog entries, her take on Chicago was appreciated and she had some funny stories that I could relate to. Good for a quick giggle-fix.
I picked this up in Singapore, and it started me reading the only blog I have ever stuck with on the internet. I find Mimi's comments inviting, refreshing and amazingly close to my feelings. I even joined goodreads because of MiMi. I only rated it 3 stars because of the disjointed feeling I t reading a edited blg.
Mimi is my favorite blogger ever and this is a collection of her first few years of entries. Some of the earliest entries are not the best but I still love this too much to not give it 5 stars. Don't judge this by its awful chick-lit cover!
This is honest-to-goodness the funniest book I have ever read. I laughed so hard reading this on the subway that people broke the Subway Code of Silence to ask me what I was reading that was so funny I was having convulsions over it.
This is basically just the dead-tree encapsulation of some of her standout diary entries from smartypants.diaryland.com - but she's got a smart, witty voice and a knack for everyday observation that I quite enjoy. It's a fun, quick read.
LOVED IT! A very witty life journal from a young Chicago woman whose observations will make you laugh out loud. This book encouraged me to keep a journal of all the weird things that I see on a daily basis.
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