A review by octavia_cade
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck

lighthearted fast-paced

2.0

"See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud!" So says the back cover, anyway. Reader, I did not laugh. I think I managed one breathy half-chuckle in the whole collection. Granted, humour is subjective and all that, and this did rise to very mildly amusing, but that's about all. It's a collection of short essays from the seventies, which originated as newspaper columns I think, and I will say that they're all very good-natured. Bombeck writes almost entirely about life with her family, the small frustrations of kids and dirty laundry and husbands who do not listen, and the genuine affection is clear throughout. It's a quick, easy read... but it's not that funny.