false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165627291m/7529.jpg 7529 5 Here are more scathingly funny tales from the wild side! <i>Laurie Notaro</i> survived the debauched ride of her twenties and the bumpy road to matrimony. Now she’s ready to take on the thirtysomething years... and almost middle age has never been more hilarious. Laurie is married, mortgaged, and now — miraculously — employed in the corporate world, discovering that bosses come in all shapes, sizes, and degrees of mental stability. After maxing out her last good credit card at Banana Republic, she’s dressed for success and ready to face the jungle: surviving feral, six-foot-plus Gretchen (“Three Thousand Faces of Eve”) before battling the overbearing, overstuffed (in way-too-small pants) new mom Suzzi, who ruthlessly cancels Laurie’s newspaper column and learns that payback can be a bitch. Laurie also explores the backstabbing world of preschoolers at a Halloween party, the X-rated madness of a family trip to Disneyland, and the pressure from her QVC-addicted mother and the rest of the world to reproduce. But while losing more friends to babies than to booze, she realizes there’s a plus side: at least for a couple of months she gets to be the thinner friend. <i>I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies)</i> is <i>Laurie Notaro</i> at her deliciously quirky best. Can a woman prone to what her loved ones might term “meltdowns” (she considers them “Opportunities to Enlighten”) put a smile on her face and love everybody? Take a guess. 10643 book 8 6 2004 I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl total:1952|5:20|4:30|3:12|2:5|1:0| 1952 7898 2774 228 4 3 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 24 09:14:42 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 09:20:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Aug 03 13:41:22 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 13:41:57 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 19:13:18 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 22:29:44 -0800 2009 The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death. Sadly, it's not as good as that one - and Flaming Tantrum I got for free.

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