false 43408 3 <b><I>From the acclaimed author of</i> Why Girls are Weird <I>comes a second hilarious and surprising novel about love and family and the weirdo inside us all.</i></b> Belinda "Benny" Bernstein doesn't brag about her life in Los Angeles, but she <I>is</i> proud of her independence. She's got a job and a place to live, and she even goes out on dates now and again. But when Benny's mother and sister get into a car accident, she drops everything to fly across the country and help her injured, unemployed mom. The only problem? She wasn't exactly invited -- and back in Virginia she finds herself confronting every issue her family has avoided for years, including her mom's thriving sex life and her sister's wild nightlife. Benny sets about fixing everything she thinks is broken at home, including mounds of clutter <I>and</i> the personal lives of the women she loves. But she soon stumbles upon a stack of letters that may reveal her mother's darkest secret. Benny only begins to understand her mom when she finds herself in a similar dilemma -- torn between someone she can't have and someone she thinks she <I>shouldn't</i> have. If Benny doesn't sort things out before she's sucked into the family vortex of dysfunction, there's no telling when she'll be able to go home again...unless this is home, after all. 42841 1 8 2006 Why Moms Are Weird total:211|5:37|4:95|3:58|2:20|1:1| 211 780 433 34 2 0 false false Thu Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon May 25 08:26:52 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 17:24:35 -0700 2009 Pamie.com and so of course I was very excited to see that she was going to be published. Pamie has a way to make you laugh out loud one second and feel heartbreak the next. When she published her first book, Why Girls are Weird I bough...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 10:10:17 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 10:13:08 -0700 2009
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People in books, or on TV, that do things that are just plain wrong bother me on a deep level. I can't watch "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" on CartoonNetwork beca...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Aug 01 14:47:18 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 14:47:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 27 11:52:23 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 11:55:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Sep 25 15:07:46 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 18 08:53:00 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jan 03 14:13:53 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 14:14:22 -0800 2009 loved this author's first book Why Girls Are Weird but was sadly disappointed in this one. Oh well. You can't hit a home run every time you're up at bat. I just wish I'd cared about any of the characters, but not a single one resonated with me. Sorry.
]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 14:28:56 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 17:28:02 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 05:30:50 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 19:29:42 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 20:53:23 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 04:58:07 -0800 2009 she does a lot of soul searching along the way and it is rather entertaining]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 09:35:58 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 09:57:51 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Dec 27 19:13:27 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 19:13:27 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 11:44:05 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 06:17:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 29 14:47:26 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 13:37:30 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 20:41:34 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 07:34:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 14:54:24 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 15:01:11 -0700 2008 1
It was funny, entertaining, one could at some moments identify either with the role of the daughter or with tha...more...]]> 3 0 true false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 12:10:16 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 12:10:16 -0700 2008 pamie.com for probably 6 or 7 years now and think she is an awesome funny lady. Luckily, and not too surprisingly, the book delivered several very funny parts and over al...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 05 09:47:39 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 09:50:06 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 12:26:56 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 12:35:20 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 12:25:25 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 06:36:28 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 08:31:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 12:20:27 -0700 2007 Why Girls are Weird is a far superior read, although I did feel bad for Boobs and her family. I felt especially sad that they had lost their father, although most families experience loss.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=43408