karenchase's review against another edition
3.0
I found the first few essays in this collection entertaining but they quickly began to feel rather one-note, and it wasn't a note I needed to revisit over and over. I was glad to put this down when I reached the end.
dar__winn's review against another edition
2.0
This is a book a humourous essays by someone who is known mainly as a screenwriter. Despite living for most of her life in California, she comes across like a native New Yorker – her voice reminds me of Fran Lebowitz. This was good to dip in and out of, because of the short essay format. Her topics include mature adult dating, attending Berkeley in the 60s, and her life with a house full of dogs.
emscji's review
3.0
1/20/2012: Merrill Markoe is hilarious--she kept me reading and laughing (quietly, to myself, I was on a crowded airplane) to the end. This new collection of her essays was a (very nice) Kindle Christmas present; I had never heard of her before, and now I'm glad I have! (Makes me feel younger…!) As she points out, the funniest jokes spring from negative experience--and those are the funniest parts of the book, when she is describing her awful relationship with her mother. Black humor for sure, but she's good at it--incredibly articulate--and it sounds so very familiar. Her conversations with her dogs are my other favorite essays. Though her musings on the difficulty of finding appropriate (and non-narcissistic) boyfriends are also great…hmm. Maybe I'll have to reconsider….
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