Everybody into the Pool: True Tales
By Beth Lisick
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. Plunging headlong into America's deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents' Leave It to Beaver values, Lisick makes her adult home on the fringe of mainstream culture and finds it rich with paradox and humor. On the one hand, she lives in "Brokeley" with drug dealers and street gangs; on the other, she drives a station wagon with a baby seat in the back, makes her own chicken stock, and attends ladies' luncheons. How exactly did this suburban girl-next-door end up as one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers of alternative culture? Lisick explains it all in her hilarious, irreverent, bestselling memoir, Everybody into the Pool.
Fans of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell will relish Lisick's scathingly funny, smart, very real take on the effluvia of daily living. No matter what community she's exposing to the light, Lisick always hits the right chord.
Beth Lisick
Beth Lisick, author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody into the Pool, is also a performer and an odd-jobs enthusiast. She has contributed to public radio's This American Life and is the cofounder of the monthly Porchlight storytelling series in San Francisco.
Read more from Beth Lisick
Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Everybody into the Pool: True Tales Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This Too Can Be Yours Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Everybody into the Pool
Related ebooks
Swans and Pistols: Modeling, Motherhood, and Making It in the Me Generation Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ronald Reagan, My Father: Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAt Danceteria and Other Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everyday Dad: A Memoir About Single Parenting Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKarl the Fog: San Francisco's Most Mysterious Resident Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bitchy Waiter: Tales, Tips & Trials from a Life in Food Service Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's Not a Rumour: A Rock and Roll Journey Through Life and Alzheimer's Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn My Humble Opinion: My So-Called Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Barbarians at the PTA: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Steve Jones's Lonely Boy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBridge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mikvah Queen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJohn Belushi Is Dead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ash and Pages Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Coffins of Little Hope Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAs I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Funny Once: Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I Hate Everyone, Except You Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5They'll Never Put That on the Air: The New Age of TV Comedy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whompyjawed: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tatouine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Here All Week Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5That White Girl: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPutting Makeup on the Fat Boy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Back Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Personal Memoirs For You
The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Stolen Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Choice: Embrace the Possible Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Diary of a Young Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dry: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Solutions and Other Problems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Me: Elton John Official Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mommie Dearest Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the Dream House: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Mormon: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stash: My Life in Hiding Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mediocre Monk: A Stumbling Search for Answers in a Forest Monastery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Everybody into the Pool
90 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I relate to Beth Lisick. While she had a quite normal and uneventful childhood, she found herself as part of the "counter culture." I don't really fit in well with the middle-America of my childhood, and I'm not sure why. Lisick seems to have similar issues. We can both fake it really well, though.The main difference between Beth Lisick and myself? She figured out a way to make a living doing what she enjoys. I'm still figuring that part out.But that's one of the main reasons I enjoyed this book so much. Here is an example of someone who didn't make it huge, didn't aim for the stratosphere of recognition and fame, but eked out a modest living doing what she wants to do. She's got the house with the white picket fence, never mind that it's in a really rough neighborhood and her neighbor is a drug dealer. He's a better neighbor than the ones I have here in this "out in the county" housing development full of people with "regular" employment. The story about the unkempt lawn is one I related to quite personally.Lisick's stories are personal and honest accounts of a life spent doing what had to be done in order to live the life she wanted. She works hard, no matter the job. She's an inspiration.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book goes solidly into the “not for me” pile. I didn’t find Lisick’s alternative lifestyle interesting, or humorous, or in the least bit respectable or necessary. I’m sure it would appeal to some, hence the two stars instead of just one, but in my case, I’m just glad it’s off of my to-be-read shelf.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5she's funny and amazing. and she's led the kind of life that the average person usually dreams about. i may have a girl crush on her.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gosh I liked this book!It was funny, smart and unexpected. Lisick stikes such a new and true cord with this book of essays.I really reading about her completely crazy life on the fringe from her somewhat straightlaced and unflappable perspective.I wasn't familiar with her before I read this book but you better believe I will keep my eye out for her work in the future!