The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life ” Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club. For the past ten years, Notaro has been entertaining Phoenix newspaper readers wi
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| Title | : | The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (222 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375760911 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 225 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2002-07-02 |
| Genre | : |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“I’ve changed a bit since high school. Back then I said no to using and selling drugs. I washed on a normal basis and still had good credit.”
Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club. Every day she fearlessly rises from bed to defeat the evil machinations of dolts, dimwits, and creepy boyfriends—and that’s before she even puts on a bra.
For the past ten years, Notaro has been entertaining Phoenix newspaper readers with her wildly amusing autobiographical exploits and unique life experiences. She writes about a world of hourly-wage jobs that require absolutely no skills, a mother who hands down judgments more forcefully than anyone seated on the Supreme Court, horrific high school reunions, and hangovers that leave her surprised that she woke up in the first place.
The misadventures of Laurie and her fellow Idiot Girls (“t
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly
This collection of columns, originally written for the Arizona Republic, details Notaro's daring exploits and comical mishaps as she matures from wild teenager to disheveled adult. Her vignettes are humorous if unoriginal. "The Useless Black Bra and the Stinkin'-drunk Twelve-step Program" is a classic drinking story, complete with the lost friend who is eventually found in a neighbor's front yard wearing only a bra. This hard-drinking, chain-smoking approach to partying inevitably leads to some punishing hangovers; in one extreme case, Notaro is mistaken for a homeless person while en route to jury duty in "Going Courtin'." Not surprisingly, disregard for her appearance diminishes her chances of fulfilling her mother's dream and bringing home from the trial a "balding, sexually repressed twenty-seven-year-old attorney strangled in a Perry Ellis necktie." Notaro's QVC-addicted mother is predictably in opposition to and embarrassed by her daughter's bad-girl a
I teach poetry at a community college in the Pacific Northwest and the work in here--especially in its attention to sound, structure, and experimentation--really has the promise to light my students up. Karl Fischer is one of those rare bizarros who, on sight, presents a deceptive normality. In how we are seen to be peacemakers.
He writes with authority having devoted much of his working life to the poor in Washington DC through the work of Sojourners. Very interesting idea that sounds doable. You believe that by doing that you are proving maybe once and for all time that you too can escape the past of this State in which you were raised and of these ghosts that you find despicable, this hate you had no part of, these white sheets, fulgent from the flames above them but burned by the evil beneath, these ignorant men who were passed down hatred as heirlooms to hand down to their sons and their daughters. I am still reading through the book but it has helped me apply some of t
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