Laurie Notaro does it again! So many great chapters! The one about buying a new bra was so hilarious! And can you imagine your gynecologist calling you fat and other disparaging remarks. Laurie actually finds a man who loves her despite all her faults AND possible scary things associated with her past. Oh her poor husband he puts up with a lot from her you just have to have sympathy for him, especially the toothbrush incident.


These books are so much fun and I don’t care if I look like a crazy person listening to these and laughing out loud I need the laughs!
Hillary Huber’s narration is really great, her timing on all the great stories that Laurie has written is just spot on!

4 Stars

I really enjoyed this book and breezed right through it. It was smart and so funny I found myself laughing out loud (on the train like a crazy person). I would recommend it for anyone who likes self-depreciating humor and/or needs a light read (as opposed to something depressing).

My first thought when I started reading this book was that I really want to be friends with Laurie because wow, she's hilarious. As the book goes on, it becomes a little bit more sporadic, but it's good all the way through. Pay special attention to the chapters in which she and her husband start dating and the chapters that involve her nephew, The Little King.

I really enjoyed this - there were some genuine laugh out loud moments.

Some of her language and commentary feels a little... not ok by 2019 standards... but putting it in 2003 context is more forgivable. This book was funny, relatable, a little over the top, and overall a quick and easy read.

RAD book! Was reading this at the airport and I was laughing out loud and a woman asked me what I was reading and bought it right on the spot from Amazon. My husband wants me to finish this already so I quit laughing while we read in bed :)
Notaro is quirky, silly, dirty, real...love her!

Funny.
Good stories about dating, weddings & early marriage.  

Great lines:

"How well do you know ...Gloria? In the biblical sense?"
"What do you mean?" he said, looking puzzled.
I sighed. "What I mean is, did you just see the Sealy Posturepedic Mattress in the showroom," I tried to explain, "or did you take it for a test lay, so to speak?"

"There was no way my husband and I were going to have a baby. We have a dog that I forget to feed at least three times a week, and that doesn't even require unbuttoning my shirt."

"We are a bottle-fed breed my dear," I told her. "How could you not know that? We're Catholic! Boobs stay covered! Do you think Mary flashed her bazongas every time her baby cried? Even Jesus was raised on a bottle and a mix! Look at you trying to be all modern!"

Totally hilarious. I scared the cat by laughing out loud while I was reading. Notaro is just shameless in writing about her own dorkiness and bad choices, as well as sweeter topics like why she & her husband love each other.

This book is a true autobiography of Laurie Notaro. Actually, to call it an autobiography would be unfair. It’s more like a series of based-on-real-life-events stories.

Laurie is an odd woman, one I can identify with. She is funny and smart in her recollections of family and household antics.

I found the book similar to Candy and Me due to the efforts the author takes to distance herself from her readers and the one-story-at-a-time approach to writing. During the entire book, I’m not sure we ever learn Laurie’s husband’s name. That fact alone disturbed me. Why is it omitted?

There’s no plot going on with the book at all. Each chapter can be read independently of each other. Again, while that’s not a bad thing, it just made the book a choppy read for me.

For some reason I was under the impression that this book would be an actual tale of a fat bride. Maybe the struggles a fat bride has to go through to get her wedding pulled off. In fact, it’s the story of a slightly overweight woman. Maybe two or three chapters are spent discussing the wedding. Guess I should have read the cover better.

I can totally relate to Laurie Notaro's adventures in living. A fantastically witty, comedic story of everybody's every day life experiences that makes you shake your head and laugh out loud. I highly recommend it...but make sure you read "The Idiot Girls'Action-Adventure Club" first. Her first novel that will get you aquainted with her life before/up to the point where this book takes off from.

Little Laurie is growing up in this book. Don't worry - her life is still pretty much a train wreck and she mines it for all the laughs she can get. She has, however, managed to find a "good guy", one who doesn't turn her into Princess Enabler, one who shows no sign of packing up his stuff and moving away with an ex-girlfriend. He's so good that she needs to find a way to keep him and turns to the ultimate bribe - fried cutlets. Never mind that she might kill him with a heart attack before the actual wedding.

Not only is Laurie being sucked into the hell that is planning a wedding, she's also buying a home. A little, sad, brown house. A little house in a not-so-great neighborhood, but one that they can afford, which is pretty important. She's getting all sorts of wedding advice, some of it helpful, most of it along the lines of threats from her mother ("If you get divorced within a year, you owe you father $35.78 a dinner times two hundred!"). Now if she could only find a job...

Notaro once again shows us that it's OK to be an Idiot Girl, to fall down in life as long as you pick yourself back up, and that no matter how crazy they make you, your family will stand by you (or maybe that's hide behind you - whatever). Don't miss out on her books, especially if you're in need of some humor in your life.

A few folks have told me she's so funny; if I like David Sedaris, I'll like her. Uh, no. I forced myself to get halfway through and quit. In Notaro's defense, someone agreed that this one isn't very funny and I should try her earlier stuff.