Housebroken

Admissions of an Untidy Life

De: Laurie Notaro

Narrado por: Laurie Notaro

Number-one New York Times best-selling 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 chronicles 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 hobos.

©2016 Laurie Notaro (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Wonderful

Wonderfully read by one of my favorite authors! Fantastic collection of stories just like all of Laurie Notaro's essay books! PS the novels are great too!

Funny

I very much enjoyed this book, and found the story to be humorous and witty; I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good laugh. However, the page after page of recipes being read was a bit much. I understand why the author included them in the actual book, but I would have been perfectly okay with them being skipped over by the person who did the audio rendition. I ended up fast forwarding through all of that portion.

Amusing

The main character sounds like a fun person, someone I think I could be friends with. The description of Eugene Oregon makes me want to visit. Fun book overall.

Entertaining!

Laurie Notaro is an entertaining author. I always have a great laugh and recommend her work to anyone who can laugh at themselves!

Amazing

As a huge fan since Fat Bride, this book is my new favorite with hilarious stories and narration.

Laughed until I thought I had a bladder leak

Great story so much like my own untidy life . And the conversations with her spouse sound like the ones I have with mine. I actually asked him if he wrote this book under an assumed name.

Love Laurie

There is no such thing as a bad Laurie Notaro book. Loved that she is her own narrator for this.

Witty humor on point!

I loved the stories but I loved them even more knowing Laurie was the one telling them. The chapter about Laurie and her husband cooking together had me in tears from laughing so hard! Great book!

Relatable and funny in some respects

My initial impression was that the author's style of writing was too forced and without a natural flow; like she was trying too hard to come off as a good writer. I was able to let go of that impression when she got onto the topic of trying to be organized. As she shared her challenges in that regard, she could have just as easily been talking about me. I found myself smirking and shaking my head in agreement. For the most part I enjoyed the book, and would consider another one of her works in the future.

I have never heard of bacon preferences referred to as "white people bacon" and "black people bacon"; limp vs crispy. Having spent a few years in my younger days waiting tables in restaurants that had bacon on the menu, I found that PEOPLE either preferred bacon one way or another with absolutely no correlation to race. There were some other labels that I found to be in poor taste, but when you're the author, I guess you can decide what does or does not go in your book.

Much of the narration sounded like some of the women from The Golden Girls, particularly the voice of Estelle Getty. Overall, the narration was very good.

SO FREAKIN' FUNNY ! lol

My first book from this author. So funny, so true, so "my life" lol Don't pass this one by!