Cathy Guisewite
Autor(a) de Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years
About the Author
Image credit: Photo by Alan Light
Séries
Obras por Cathy Guisewite
Only Love Can Break a Heart, But a Shoe Sale Can Come Close: A Cathy Collection (1992) 52 exemplares
The Child Within Has Been Awakened: A Cathy Collection But the Old Lady on the Outside Just Collapsed (A Cathy… (1994) 48 exemplares
What's a Nice Single Girl Doing With a Double Bed?! Volume 1, The Cathy Cartoon Strip Chronicles (1981) 16 exemplares
"What do you mean, I still don't have equal rights??!" (Andrews and McMeel treasury series) (1980) 12 exemplares
How to Get Rich, Fall in Love, Lose Weight, and Solve All Your Problems by Saying "No" (Guisewite, Cathy. Cathy Coping… (1983) 10 exemplares
The new collected Cathy: A two-in-one collection including : Wake me up when I'm a size 5 ; Thin thighs in thirty years (1986) 9 exemplares
"I think I'm having a relationship with a blueberry pie!" (The Cathy chronicles) (1981) 8 exemplares
Eat Your Way to a Better Relationship (Guisewite, Cathy. Cathy Coping Guide for the '80s.) (1983) 5 exemplares
The third collected Cathy: A two-in-one volume including: Why do the right words always come out of the wrong mouth?; A… (1987) 4 exemplares
Confessions to my Mother 2 exemplares
Cathy 4. 2 exemplares
Tudo Sobre o Cromossoma do Porquê 1 exemplar
Mamã 1 exemplar
Amor 1 exemplar
Cathy six-week diet diary 1 exemplar
Agora Eu! 1 exemplar
Tal Mãe, Tal Filha 1 exemplar
Acordem-Me Quando Vestir O 34! 1 exemplar
Pernas Elegantes Nem Daqui a 30 Anos 1 exemplar
Falida… Mas Deslumbrante! Livro 1 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Choices: A Pro-Choice Benefit Comic Anthology for the National Organization for Women (1990) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Funny Ladies: A Portrait of Women Cartoonists — Subject — 3 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1950
- Sexo
- female
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Reuben Award (1992)
Membros
Críticas
Fifty things that aren't my fault : essays from the… por Cathy Guisewite
Fantastic. Her life still resonates so strongly with me. Loved this book
*Diets that don’t work
*The temptation of chocolate
*Recognizing that yes, you really do need nine pairs of almost but not quite identical black pumps
*The agony of swimsuit-trying-on season
*The endless search for the perfect jeans
*The elusive promise of cosmetics
*The fruitless search for organization and perfection
These are all themes that frequently appeared in the 'Cathy' comic strip over its 34-year run, and strip creator Cathy Guisewite has, not surprisingly, revisited them all in her book of essays, Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault (including, apparently, coming up with only 48 entries).
Added to that are further sources of angst from Guisewite’s personal life – being an empty-nester worrying about the innocence and vulnerability of her only child leaving home for college at precisely the same time she worries about the frailty and vulnerability of her aging parents. Those topics turn more heartfelt than humorous as one progresses into the collection, and the reader who is looking for laughs at their own foibles may find, instead, a great deal of soul-searching about trying to hold on to the people we love even as they are slipping away from us.… (mais)
*The temptation of chocolate
*Recognizing that yes, you really do need nine pairs of almost but not quite identical black pumps
*The agony of swimsuit-trying-on season
*The endless search for the perfect jeans
*The elusive promise of cosmetics
*The fruitless search for organization and perfection
These are all themes that frequently appeared in the 'Cathy' comic strip over its 34-year run, and strip creator Cathy Guisewite has, not surprisingly, revisited them all in her book of essays, Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault (including, apparently, coming up with only 48 entries).
Added to that are further sources of angst from Guisewite’s personal life – being an empty-nester worrying about the innocence and vulnerability of her only child leaving home for college at precisely the same time she worries about the frailty and vulnerability of her aging parents. Those topics turn more heartfelt than humorous as one progresses into the collection, and the reader who is looking for laughs at their own foibles may find, instead, a great deal of soul-searching about trying to hold on to the people we love even as they are slipping away from us.… (mais)
Cathy Guisewite comes out of retirement and brings her Cathy Andrews comic strip character with her to reflect on life in lockdown for an affluent White woman during the COVID-19 pandemic. I haven't read a Cathy strip in years, but quickly fell back into the rhythm of Guisewite's gentle "Ack!" humor about hair, eating, and shopping. It ain't deep, but it's comfortable.
Continuity buffs may worry about the utter absence of husband Irving Hillman and the daughter they were expecting in the final strip of the original series in 2010.… (mais)
Continuity buffs may worry about the utter absence of husband Irving Hillman and the daughter they were expecting in the final strip of the original series in 2010.… (mais)
I loved the Cathy comic strip. There were so many things in this book that I really could relate to...and there were so many things that I have friends that do the very same things that Cathy did in the same situations. The entries were funny, they were sad sometimes, and they were all thought provoking. Those readers younger than 55 will see what they will almost mostly have to look forward to...those of us older will just smile and nod...since we've probably been there and done that.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 84
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 1,627
- Popularidade
- #15,814
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 18
- ISBN
- 115
- Línguas
- 2
- Marcado como favorito
- 1