Housebroken: Admissions of an Untidy Life
Published by Dreamscape Media Audio
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro isn’t exactly a domestic goddess — unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition, sneaks peeks at her husband’s daily journal, or has made a list of the people she wants on her Apocalypse Survival team (her husband’s not on it).
Notaro explores her chronic misfortune in the domestic arts, including cooking, cleaning, and putting on Spanx while sweaty (which should technically qualify as an Olympic sport).
Housebroken is a rollicking new collection of essays showcasing her irreverent wit and inability to feel shame from defying nature in the quest to make her own Twinkies, to begging her new neighbors not to become urban livestock keepers, to teaching her eight-year-old nephew about hoboes.
©2016 Laurie Notaro (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC
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Reviews for Housebroken
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Essays about things such as trying to recreate the flavor of the original Hostess Twinkie at home. The boyfriend who broke up with her because she made her grandmother's spaghetti recipe for him and that he wasn't looking for that level of commitment. Taking her coddled nephew to skanky Waffle House, and choosing which people she would allow into her survivor's basement if the world is destroyed. Notaro is always fun.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There are some truly funny things in this book but the best part of this book is the confidence of the author, who shares her life, including a touching letter to a younger self.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Read from July 15 to 25, 2016This is my first stroll down Notaro lane and it was quite enjoyable. I will admit to some essays being duds for me, but the ones that had me laughing out loud (there were tears & snorts) more than made up for those few I didn't love. I even found my way to the author's Facebook page to keep up with her daily shenanigans (and she definitely has them).
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Second book of Laurie Notaro's if I have read/listened to, and as funny as the first:
The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, I read. The audio books are fun to hear her voice, inflections and sarcasm. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very funny (if occasionally raunchy) collection of humorous essays from a sassy broad (and I mean that in the very best sense), generally focusing on the domestic. (Hint: Erma Bombeck she ain’t.)Don’t be surprised if you find yourself in one of these 25 takes on frequently-frustrating modern life, from dealing with parents as an adult to passing along life’s wisdom to the next generation, all with Notaro’s signature cockeyed slant. (I’m in two of them, I promise you.)And that’s a large portion of what makes this book such a fun read. Your only problem will be forcing yourself to put it down between takes, the better to savor each one.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This collection of 25 humorous personal essays, generally on the topic of homekeeping, is like listening to a friend’s self-deprecating stories. Think fresh, like Jenny Lawson. Or maybe Nora Ephron, but lighter.My favorites include Notaro’s essay about being unfriended on Facebook by her dad; her reaction to Marie Kondo’s (unattributed) “tidying” book; her anxiety as she waits for city workers to remove the enormous pile of autumn leaves that has accumulated in front of her house; the neighbor’s dead tree that falls and becomes her liability; and an homage to her current hometown of Eugene, Oregon.This is the first I’ve read by Notaro. Her voice is energetic and optimistic and, depending on topics, I’d read more.(Review based on an advance reading copy provided by the publisher.)