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    The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom

    By Jo Barrett

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    The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom strives to answer life's most imponderable question: What Do Women Really Do in the Bathroom?

    When the witty and urbane Claire St. John leaves New York City and returns to Austin, Texas, she realizes that all of the good advice she has ever received has been from strangers in the women's bathroom. If only she'd listened before she'd married the wrong man and wound up on the losing end of a divorce.

    Swearing off men, Claire decides to take a big chance—she will quit her life as a lawyer and write the ultimate self-help book—a book detailing exactly what goes on in that most sacred feminine temple: the women's bathroom.

    But will the new how-to guru ever learn to take her own advice? While she's discovering the truth behind the bathroom door, re-assimilating to Texas culture by eating "nuclear" jalapeño carrots, speeding down highways through the famed Texas hill country, and even joining an ill-fated booze cruise, Claire St. John is fighting her feelings for Jake Armstrong, a dashing organic food entrepreneur who threatens to throw off the balance of her new life. Will she be able to handle the pressure or will she watch her love life get flushed away?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061844287
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    The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom
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    Jo Barrett

    Jo Barrett was born in Okinawa, Japan. She moved to San Antonio, Texas, with her family and attended the University of Texas, Austin, where she received the Normandy Scholarship. From Texas she moved to Washington, D.C., to work on Capitol Hill. While working full-time, she earned a law degree from Georgetown University. Instead of taking a legal job, she moved to New York City to become a writer.

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    • 3/5
      This was an often times amusing book...I liked it well enough I suppose. It wasn't until the end though, in the bonus section, "potty talk" where the author described the various habits and talk of different places round the globe, that I laughed out loud. Its for the bonus section that I added another star.On a side note, it had an excerpt from her upcoming book, or maybe its already been published? Something along the lines of "Killing Carter". Those pages made it sound like an appealing book and I'll most likely end up reading that one as well.
    • 4/5
      This is a cute piece of Chick-Lit; not too involved, but enough to capture and hold your attention. Claire is a hot shot lawyer in New York City until a messy divorce sends her back to her roots in Texas with the crazy idea of being a writer. After a disastrous single's trip to Mexico, Claire realizes that the best advice comes straight from experiences in women's bathrooms. Armed with this revelation, Claire sets out to write the ultimate guide to the ladies room. On the way, she gets tangled up in situations that every woman who has ever used a public restroom will be able to identify with, and with humour and wits she reveals everything in her book. As she does this, Claire deals with the dating pool and her ex-husband in the hopes that somehow this book will give her the bathroom advice she so needs.
    • 2/5
      I kept reading and reading, hoping it would get better--it never did. Like another reviewer, Hugh Jackman sold me. He should be ashamed. The only thing that saved it at all were the stories about women's bathrooms.
    • 3/5
      The concept is great and the bathroom lists that start each chapter are hilarious and true. However, the story itself seems like an afterthought, tacked on to flesh out the lists into a narrative. The main character narrates like an Entertainment Weekly writer on speed, which is funny at times, but does really date the book quickly.