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Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
by
Lisa Scottoline (Goodreads Author)
A hilarious collection of stories from the life of the New York Times bestselling author of Look Again
At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline’s wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to show the humorous side of life from a woman’s perspective. The Sunday column debuted in 2007 and on the day it...more
At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline’s wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to show the humorous side of life from a woman’s perspective. The Sunday column debuted in 2007 and on the day it...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
November 24th 2009
by St. Martin's Press
(first published November 18th 2009)
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I picked this up on the strength of the title. I'll give any book that makes me laugh out loud in the library a shot. I should have read the flap copy, because this is almost the perfect storm of nonfiction I hate- let me count the ways.
The author writes (1)"chick-lit" that is (2)massively popular. This (3)collection of (4)newspaper columns features several (5)guest columns written by the author's daughter. The essays are (6)cute, (7)upbeat, and (8)warmly nonjudgmental. They feature (9)Spanx, (...more
The author writes (1)"chick-lit" that is (2)massively popular. This (3)collection of (4)newspaper columns features several (5)guest columns written by the author's daughter. The essays are (6)cute, (7)upbeat, and (8)warmly nonjudgmental. They feature (9)Spanx, (...more
This is a collection of very short (3 pages or so) pieces from Scottoline's "Chick Wit" column for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Fun to have around and pick up when you have a few minutes to read here and there. She covers everything from shopping for undies to losing her father to cancer.
As with any such collection, my appreciation of these little pieces was uneven. The unevenness was even more pronounced for me with this book because Lisa Scottoline and I have some things so strongly in common a...more
As with any such collection, my appreciation of these little pieces was uneven. The unevenness was even more pronounced for me with this book because Lisa Scottoline and I have some things so strongly in common a...more
highly enjoyable. I listened to the audiobook, read by both authors, and also read the hardcovers. I preferrered the audio versions though both are good. If you're grumpy for some reason or just want to hear some well told stories give this book a try. The others LS has written-the essays not fiction are equally wonderful. I've read them all, given each to my mom, who will be 80 soon and loved them too even the parts she personally didn't relate to. Also gave to best friends and friends I've los...more
This light, humorous book about "lessons learned" reminded me NOT to make snap judgements. This is totally the kind of book I would pass over in bookstores and consider myself too thoughtful a person to ever consider reading. (Translation: too much of a literary snob to want to be seen reading this kind of book).
BUT, a dear friend pressed it in my hand, saying what a treat it was, so "whatcha going to do"? I gave it a whirl and after 20 pages decided that it was just too cute and too fluffy that...more
BUT, a dear friend pressed it in my hand, saying what a treat it was, so "whatcha going to do"? I gave it a whirl and after 20 pages decided that it was just too cute and too fluffy that...more
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This book is a collection of columns that Lisa Scottoline, a novelist, wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer and, as the title indicates, they are humorous, reflective, self-deprecating and frankly, really heart-warming. They might not be everyone's cup of tea, but this rich glimpse into a thrice-married writer, with one daughter, a feisty aging mother, a gay brother and loads of dogs, is delightful.
From braless emergency room moments, to her mother insisting on wearing a lab coat, to her daughte...more
From braless emergency room moments, to her mother insisting on wearing a lab coat, to her daughte...more
Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog gives us a slice of life from the sometimes sentimental, often hilarious, definitely extraordinary life of author Lisa Scottoline. Ms. Scottoline is ingenious and full of life as you'll be able to tell from listening to her recount some of her weekly Chick Wit column in the Philadelphia Inquirer and additional stories on life, love, family and pets from her outlook, which can be a comical one to say the least.
I'm not the only one who thinks of chloroforming her...more
I'm not the only one who thinks of chloroforming her...more
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Lisa Scottoline is best known for her 15 mystery novels. "Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog" is humor at its best. The book is a compilation of articles that she did for the Philadelphia Inquirer. They are short stories, 2 to 3 pages long, that gives the reader a look into her life.
Lisa has been married twice and she "makes no bones" in telling us how bad these marriages were, she calls her husbands "Thing One" and "Thing Two". She has a daughter that is going off to college and is the apple of...more
Lisa has been married twice and she "makes no bones" in telling us how bad these marriages were, she calls her husbands "Thing One" and "Thing Two". She has a daughter that is going off to college and is the apple of...more
Lisa Scottoline, bestselling fiction author, has written a very down-to-earth and entertaining book about her life. Not a memoir, per se, but more a series of essays about what her life is like right now – living with 4 dogs, dealing with her empty nest syndrome, the trials and tribulations of having been married and divorced twice (she calls her ex husbands ‘Thing One’ and ‘Thing Two.’), and her thoughts and insights into random other things (like how mortifying it is to show up in the emergenc...more
The author writes a column for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and it's all chick-wit on a very light-hearted level. She loves dogs and her daughter and her mother and her gay brother, but she pretty much hates men. At first I found the book laugh-out-loud funny. But after awhile, her punch lines began to become predictable and her set-ups unbelievable. I was also annoyed that she apparently believes her 21-year old daughter deserves an audience as well, and many of the chapters were written by her d...more
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Shelves:
2010-audio-books,
2010-nonfiction
Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: the amazing story of an Ordinary Woman, by Lisa Scottolene, narrated by the author, Produced by Macmillan Audio, downloaded from audible.com.
Lisa Scottolene started writing a column in 2007 in the Philadelphia Inquirer called “Chick Lit.” The vignettes, 70 collected for this book, are totally hilarious pictures of her not so ordinary life. We learn she has four dogs and two cats, raises chickens, goes braless at home which was embarrassing when she had to go t...more
Lisa Scottolene started writing a column in 2007 in the Philadelphia Inquirer called “Chick Lit.” The vignettes, 70 collected for this book, are totally hilarious pictures of her not so ordinary life. We learn she has four dogs and two cats, raises chickens, goes braless at home which was embarrassing when she had to go t...more
I love Lisa Scottolines' writing style and humor. I can relate to most of the subjects she writes about in her weekly column Chick Wit" for the Philadelphia Inquirer. This is from which all of the stories contained in this book titled were plucked and put together in no particular order.
The reason I gave this book such a low rating, even though I love her writing, I felt the 'tea bags' of life experience, as she calls her stories, were very disjointed. There wasn't a flow that kept the momentum...more
The reason I gave this book such a low rating, even though I love her writing, I felt the 'tea bags' of life experience, as she calls her stories, were very disjointed. There wasn't a flow that kept the momentum...more
Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog is a humorous collection of newspaper column stories, and I absolutely loved it. The chapters (each an individual story) are around three or four pages each, which I liked because she didn't go into too much detail, but included just enough. I found myself laughing while reading about her everyday life adventures and I also learned some things from her through her stories. I find myself comparing her thoughts with mine, and we do have a lot of things in common....more
I would like to have given this book experience 3.5 stars. It is a collection of essays written for Scottoline's column in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The majority of the essays were outstanding- some laugh-out-loud funny, others poignant, and some just common sense thinking. However, some of them fell flat or were repetitive. BUt overall, this is an enjoyable, light read. Perfect for vacation reading or for reading on a quiet afternoon.
"We don't think of mothers as having superpowers. But, they...more
"We don't think of mothers as having superpowers. But, they...more
Oct 03, 2010
Patty
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philadelphia,
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writing
These essays were like potato chips. I couldn't listen to just one. I tried to alternate this with some short stories, but I just wanted to keep listening to Lisa Scottoline read to me. The fact that she had her daughter read when appropriate made this even better. I was either laughing or on the verge of tears for the whole book.
I have a very soft spot in my heart for Scottoline. She writes about Philly and that is my city of choice. I had the privilege to hear her speak at a library convention...more
I have a very soft spot in my heart for Scottoline. She writes about Philly and that is my city of choice. I had the privilege to hear her speak at a library convention...more
I saw this book in Barnes & Noble. I knew Lisa Scottoline as a writer of mysteries and didn't realize she also wrote a humorous column for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" titled "Chick Wit". I read the book to see if it was as funny as the fly leaf promised. The book is a collection of the Chick Wit articles and I found most of them to be amusing, provoking a smile. Not laugh out loud but most of them were fun. She refers to her two ex-husbands as Thing #1 and Thing #2. I always like a good Seus...more
Lisa Scottoline is better known for her thriller/crime type novels. This book, however, is personal reminiscences told in a highly individualistic and quirky style.
The first thing I realized was that Lisa and her family, aka The Flying Scottolines, are equally as crazy as mine, which made the book all the more entertaining for me. It's nice to know that other people have delightfully weird relatives too.
Lisa's style really reaches out to the reader to find common ground, many times I really fel...more
The first thing I realized was that Lisa and her family, aka The Flying Scottolines, are equally as crazy as mine, which made the book all the more entertaining for me. It's nice to know that other people have delightfully weird relatives too.
Lisa's style really reaches out to the reader to find common ground, many times I really fel...more
No wonder I like her mysteries. This compilation of short essays about everyday life gives us insight into the life of Lisa Scottoline. So many of the stories hit home with my own life. I love the vignettes about her mother and her daughter. I could relate to her mom not using the hearing aid or wheelchair or cell phone and that her mom has a back scratcher.
Two days before the 5.8 earthquake near Norfolk VA, I read the story about her mother feeling an earthquake that no one else felt. I though...more
Two days before the 5.8 earthquake near Norfolk VA, I read the story about her mother feeling an earthquake that no one else felt. I though...more
Light essays adapted from Scottoline's "Chick Wit" column in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Made me laugh, made me cry; a short, fast read. Scottoline's fifty-two; you get to meet her daughter, Francesca; her Mother Mary; her brother Frank; and her many dogs.
"...I've run out of bookshelves, so books cover all the surfaces in the dining room, including the table and chairs. While some people have a pile of books to be read, the so-called TBR pile, I have a dining roomful of books to be read, or a TBR...more
"...I've run out of bookshelves, so books cover all the surfaces in the dining room, including the table and chairs. While some people have a pile of books to be read, the so-called TBR pile, I have a dining roomful of books to be read, or a TBR...more
This is a great book of essays about what it's like to be an ordinary woman living in the world today (originally published as columns in the Philadelphia Inquirer). I laughed out loud so many times. I also had several moments when I thought to myself, "Wait, someone else feels the same way that I do about X"? (especially about Dead Whoppers in my movie candy, or about how the reason women interrupt each other all the time is because we're so excited about what the other person is saying, we jus...more
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This book is Hysterical. I had forgotten how great it feels to truly laugh out loud. So far the funniest chapter by far is "Everything Old is Nude Again" The first line reads ..."Something dangerous is going on in the world of women's underwear, and I want to nip it in the butt. Sorry. I am referring of course to Spanx." You will cry and probably identify gladly or ...sadly.
But it is not all funny, for the tempo rises and falls like a gentle ocean, one minute you're laughing right out loud and...more
But it is not all funny, for the tempo rises and falls like a gentle ocean, one minute you're laughing right out loud and...more
I picked up this book at the Dollar Tree, mainly because I have read a few of her books and thought I'd give it a try. Plus, for $1, a book has to be REALLY bad to not be worth it. Personally, this book didn't do it for me. I realized I wasn't interested because of the short stories, versus one story that you "can't wait" to finish. Even though I didn't love this book, the book did make me really like the author. Makes me want to read more of her stories, knowing a little more of who she really...more
As much as I enjoy the light-hearted, witty adventures of Scottoline's novels, this autobiographical book was even more fun. First of all, she feels totally different than I do about dogs AND husbands, but she's not made good choices in husbands, and I've never known pleasant dogs. That said, it was a fun book with interesting observations. She does like her daughter, so we have that in common. She had a wonderful
justification for interrupting another (which I copied since it's long,
and plan to...more
justification for interrupting another (which I copied since it's long,
and plan to...more
Oh my gosh. This is so funny. Lisa Scottoline gives her impressions on various subjects. Two of my faavorite quotes are: "I have never been in an accident, if you don't count my two marraiges" and "My mother taught us that if you eat baked beans from a can that has dents, you'll die of botulism. This was before people injected botulism into their faces. Nowadays, the dented can will kill you, but you'll look young."
She refers to her 2 exes as Thing One and Thing Two. She wants to know where the...more
She refers to her 2 exes as Thing One and Thing Two. She wants to know where the...more
My mom recommended this book and it's the kind of thing I like -- short essays a la Erma Bombeck or Dave Barry. This woman is good, but not THAT good. Overall I enjoyed it, and it made a couple workouts go by quickly because I was entertained. I didn't like the Jennifer Aniston bashing (or the converse worship of Brangelina ... yuck), and I'm not a big fan of dog and chicken kissing, although to each her own. Some of the essays made me tear up -- especially when she talked about her parents and...more
Yawn. Funny, but just barely. Basically, a collection of newspaper columns. Very tongue in cheek from a confessed prude (not that there is anything wrong with that). But it's hard to wrangle humor out of a chapter where your 18 year old daughter reveals that she's been having sex in her college dorm room if you have a stick up your butt about anything potentially not PC. Will appeal to a certain crowd. Didn't appeal to my wife. I'm not sure what her problem is (twice divorced) and apparently com...more
Lisa Scottoline is widely reknown for writing mysteries which feature strong, intelligent, believable female characters. However, she is also a strong non-fiction writer. "Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog" is a collection of her favorite daily musings from a column she does for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Scottoline covers everything from the evils of Spanx, to her menagerie of pets, to dealing with empty-nest syndrome. She writes with such an endearing light-hearted and intimate style that I i...more
I have read Lisa Scottoline's mysteries for years, and am always anxious for her next one to come out. So, when I heard that she had published this book, which is not a novel, I was intrigued. I finally got it from the library and was so excited- and, I am happy to say, this book did not only not diappoint me, but exceeded my expectations.
This collection of "Chick Wit" columns allow us a peak inside Scottoline's life. I must say, I felt that I knew her family, and recognized them (or parts of th...more
This collection of "Chick Wit" columns allow us a peak inside Scottoline's life. I must say, I felt that I knew her family, and recognized them (or parts of th...more
I actually listened to this book on Cds while I was driving back and forth to work. A Christmas gift from my beloved husband, I only needed one week to finish this book. Lisa Scottoline read her own book which is a MUST for me! Her Philadelphia accent comes through as does her passion for her profession as a writer but she's also passionate about pet ownership and motherhood. I couldn't wait to get into the car each day in order to listen top Lisa's anecdotes about ehr gay brother, Frank, "mothe...more
This is a "kind-of" book: kind of amusing, kind of relatable, kind of interesting, but nothing much in the way of substance. And I do like a bit of substance with my humor, a la David Sedaris, Fran Lebowitz, Woody...etc. I wish Scottoline had fleshed out her columns instead of simply compiling them into a book-length collection. Taken on their own, the essays (if one can call them that)are too thin, underdeveloped, and often seemingly under-thought. I could feel the cold stare of the newsroom de...more
This is a collection of columns that Lisa writes for a Philadelphia newspaper. They read like a blog, and I like that. They are funny and up my alley. Lisa has a college age daughter and a feisty 80+ year old mother who lives with Lisa's gay brother in Florida. The high jinx get hysterical. To say Lisa is an animal lover is an understatement. She has a menagerie of pets that she'd rather live with than a husband (the first two didn't work out well, although we don't know anything about them but...more
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