false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165627291m/7530.jpg 7530 5 The author of the New York Times bestseller <i>The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club</i> tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life. In <i>Autobiography of a Fat Bride</i>, <i>Laurie Notaro</i> tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plumbing problems and no air-conditioning. Laurie finds grown-up life just as harrowing as her reckless youth, as she meets Mr. Right, moves in, settles down, and crosses the toe-stubbing threshold of matrimony. From her mother's grade-school warning to avoid kids in tie-dyed shirts because their hippie parents spent their food money on drugs and art supplies; to her night-before-the-wedding panic over whether her religion is the one where you step on the glass; to her unfortunate overpreparation for the mandatory drug-screening urine test at work; to her audition as a Playboy centerfold as research for a newspaper story, <i>Autobiography of a Fat Bride</i> has the same zits-and-all candor and outrageous humor that made Idiot Girls an instant cult phenomenon. In <i>Autobiography of a Fat Bride</i>, Laurie contemplates family, home improvement, and the horrible tyrannies of cosmetic saleswomen. She finds that life doesn't necessarily get any easier as you get older. But it does get funnier. 10644 book 8 7 2003 Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood total:1907|5:643|4:726|3:423|2:92|1:23| 1907 7595 2539 203 4 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 19:48:55 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 09:07:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Dec 15 17:50:28 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 17:52:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Oct 14 17:11:43 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 14 17:14:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 16:19:48 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 16:24:38 -0700 2009 i love everybody. i have made it pretty clear in other reviews that i am not a big laurie notaro fan, but when it's sitting on the free rack at a library book sale, what have i got to lose? i mean, it took me about twenty minutes...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 02 11:32:55 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 11:32:59 -0700 2009
Laurie is an odd woman, one I can identify with. She is funny and smart in her recollections of family and household a...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 12:45:43 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 12:49:03 -0800 2008 5 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 09:32:59 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 10:39:14 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 10:59:09 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 08:29:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 19 22:38:19 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 21:35:56 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 21:37:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 12:14:30 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 05:38:46 -0700 2009
she writes frequently about her animals, only a little about her friends in this one, and lots about her mom- which i loved. sh...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 18:17:14 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 13:40:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Fri Jan 23 11:40:52 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 11:43:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 14:35:32 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 14:35:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 08:36:13 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 21:22:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Mar 05 20:40:53 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 20:43:27 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 21:19:44 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 21:21:22 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 14:54:03 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 14:55:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Aug 23 03:54:49 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 05:45:10 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 03:54:49 -0700 2008
* meeting her boyfriend - while possibly having a...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 16:57:10 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 12:23:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 20:34:07 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 20:38:50 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7530