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I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies)

por Laurie Notaro

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Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML: "[Notaro] may be the funniest writer in this solar system." . HTML: Here are more scathingly funny tales from the wild side! Laurie Notaro survived the debauched ride of her twenties and the bumpy road to matrimony. Now she's ready to take on the thirtysomething years . . . and almost middle age has never been more hilarious. Laurie is married, mortgaged, and now--miraculously--employed in the corporate world, discovering that bosses come in all shapes, sizes, and degrees of mental stability. After maxing out her last good credit card at Banana Republic, she's dressed for success and ready to face the jungle: surviving feral, six-foot-plus Gretchen ("Three Thousand Faces of Eve") before battling the overbearing, overstuffed (in way-too-small pants) new mom Suzzi, who ruthlessly cancels Laurie's newspaper column and learns that payback can be a bitch. Laurie also explores the backstabbing world of preschoolers at a Halloween party, the X-rated madness of a family trip to Disneyland, and the pressure from her QVC-addicted mother and the rest of the world to reproduce. But while losing more friends to babies than to booze, she realizes there's a plus side: at least for a couple of months she gets to be the thinner friend. I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) is Laurie Notaro at her deliciously quirky best. Can a woman prone to what her loved ones might term "meltdowns" (she considers them "Opportunities to Enlighten") put a smile on her face and love everybody? Take a guess. From the Trade Paperback edition. .… (mais)

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Título:	I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies)
Autores:	Laurie Notaro
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I absolutely love Laurie Notaro and thought I had already read this book but, somehow, I missed it. This is filled with her trademark crazy observations and humor and her depictions of her family are always hilarious. I laughed out loud at work listening to the audiobook so I'm sure my co-workers think something is wrong with me. Looking forward to going through my TBR list to make sure I haven't missed any other of her books. (

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JediBookLover | Oct 29, 2022 |

Notaro's collection of essays this time centers around her various frustrations at living in a world populated by doofuses, dolts, and demanders of various ages, sizes, and social standing. Meanwhile, she's awaiting the publication of her first book, trying to hang on to her job amid corporate shuffling, and fending off inquiries about her reproductive status. (

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LyndaInOregon | Sep 6, 2022 |

Funny book with tales from the life of Laurie Notaro. Tales of a friend who takes a swim in a Japanese ornamental garden. Jerry the neighborhood tweeker and handyman. Her Nana who believes that all the stories on Lifetime channel are real, which leads to an emergency race to her house. A hilarious trip to Disneyland where she finds a number of things wrong with the happiest place on earth. One where I found myself laughing out loud where she was playing the Sims game and started a fie in the kitchen. (

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ChrisWeir | Dec 5, 2018 |

Notaro was a humor columnist at The Arizona Republic for ten years before her column suddenly disappeared from the paper, something I'd always put down to the popularity of her first book. Nope, all the sordid details are in this book of essays, published in 2004. Here are the hilarious essays about the management changes at work and the cast of idiots that cost Notaro her job, the story of wearing a pair of favorite pants for so long that they exploded into fibers while on vacation, the drunken tree trimmer who began knocking on her door at all hours to ask for money and cigarettes, and an essay regarding something that still happens in Phoenix, where the City sends out threatening letters to an entire street about their yards. These subjects may not seem a likely source of humor, but Notaro has a remarkable ability to see the worst in everything. (

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mstrust | Apr 22, 2018 |

This book is not funny. The humor is forced, and the story lines are unoriginal. For example, she is not the first (although she claims to be) to rant about the fact that Disney characters don't wear pants. Also, the author's attitude makes me dislike her as a person. She doesn't come off as light-hearted and sacastic. She's mean spirited, annoying, and pathetic. Too harsh? (

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Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:

"[Notaro] may be the funniest writer in this solar system."

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Here are more scathingly funny tales from the wild side! Laurie Notaro survived the debauched ride of her twenties and the bumpy road to matrimony. Now she's ready to take on the thirtysomething years . . . and almost middle age has never been more hilarious.

Laurie is married, mortgaged, and now--miraculously--employed in the corporate world, discovering that bosses come in all shapes, sizes, and degrees of mental stability. After maxing out her last good credit card at Banana Republic, she's dressed for success and ready to face the jungle: surviving feral, six-foot-plus Gretchen ("Three Thousand Faces of Eve") before battling the overbearing, overstuffed (in way-too-small pants) new mom Suzzi, who ruthlessly cancels Laurie's newspaper column and learns that payback can be a bitch. Laurie also explores the backstabbing world of preschoolers at a Halloween party, the X-rated madness of a family trip to Disneyland, and the pressure from her QVC-addicted mother and the rest of the world to reproduce. But while losing more friends to babies than to booze, she realizes there's a plus side: at least for a couple of months she gets to be the thinner friend.

I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) is Laurie Notaro at her deliciously quirky best. Can a woman prone to what her loved ones might term "meltdowns" (she considers them "Opportunities to Enlighten") put a smile on her face and love everybody? Take a guess.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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