An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List

by Laurie Notaro

Book Overview

IT S LAURIE NOTARO S HOLIDAY HANDBOOK. PREPARE TO LAUGH YOUR TINSEL OFF. It s the most wonderful and most dreadful season of the year, when boxes of truffles attack your thighs, drunken holiday... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400064368
• ISBN13: 9781400064366
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Re-living my Childhood Christmas

I could not put this book down once I started reading. I laughed, I cried, I can totally relate to her mother! Can't wait to read her other books now! A true Christmas experience!!

Amen!

Amen to the other reviewers! Couldn't have said it better myself, but I'll put in my $2(inflation) worth! The trip to KMART and the shopping trip with Nana are my personal favorites. If you need stress-reliever from the Holiday season or just enjoy a good laugh, treat yourself to Laurie Natoro.

Christmas Shopping With Laurie

As a late arrival to the Laurie Notaro fanwagon (I didn't discover her until her third book), I got off to a slow start, finding her humor too confrontational at times, and too self-abasing at other times. Still, I found myself hunting down her previous books, and before I knew what had hit me, I was laughing and reading bits out loud to savor them. My favorite Notaro pieces all seem to involve shopping. In An Idiot Girl's Christmas, the standout essays are Deck the Mall, in which Laurie takes her Nana Christmas shopping, and Have Yourself a Kmart Little Christmas, in which Laurie finds herself in a crowded Super Kmart just before closing time on Christmas Eve. In another chapter, The Most Unfun Christmas Party Hostess Ever, we get an intriguing glimpse of Laurie's husband (although we still don't know his name). As they get their house ready for a Christmas party, unnamed husband asks "Do you think if I put my new Emily Dickinson biography on the coffee table that it will spur conversation?" Apparently, in his circle of friends, this is a distinct possibility. Laurie knows her friends, on the other hand, will "debate whether or not I know that I married a gay man." An Idiot Girl's Christmas is a pretty short book, 142 pages in a hardcover the size of a trade paperback, but it's priced accordingly, and you'll definitely get your money's worth in laughs.

Funny, wonderful, great read

Notaro keeps getting better with age--I loved this book, read it in a night despite my best efforts to ration myself to a chapter a night--and am now re-reading it for a second time. I always consider Laurie's books multiple-use, anyway, I've read all of her books two and three times. I was happy to see some old favorites in An Idiot Girl's Christmas, but happier to see the new material, particularly the closing chapter, which was a departure from her usual stuff and works marvelously and had me laughing outloud until I couldn't breathe. Always hilarious, always relateable (I too, am a clear light Christmas tree person), always truthfull, I will advise any readers of this book to follow the rules of the previous books: don't read in public unless you want people to doubt your sanity, and don't imbibe or eat unless you want to become a Diet Pepsi fountain (laughing and liquid intake to do not mix). This is a great fifth installment in my Notaro collection, and I will treasure it for every holiday season to come, and it has also provided me with something to give to every one of my girlfriends (especially the ones who are impossible to buy for). Thanks, Laurie!

Just the funniest book written by an idiot girl this year!

I laughed, I cried and I wet my pants (only a little bit). Ms Notaro triumphs against adversity yet again and we are all invited to witness it. Must read for idiot girls and boys everywhere.

Lively, fun, and of course...Self decimating

In true Laurie style, this book will make you feel better about your worst Christmas memory. Because inevitably, hers is worse. Way worse. A really quick read (I picked it up after work yesterday...took it to the gym...and was finished before dinner) but fun and entertaining throughout. There is no filler in this short, but sweet book. Just lots of Laurie's unique humor encapsulated in bite sized Christmas stories of true horror. My favorite I think being the Super K-mart at midnight on Christmas Eve story. If you've read and liked ANY of her previous work...this book should be on your Christmas list...hopefully positioned above the puffy Christmas dish towels and nylon underwear large enough to cover a sports car in a downpour.