A friend gave me a bunch of books by {female} author, Laurie Notaro. You may have heard of her...she wrote the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club. Anyways, I have three of her books in front of me. I've only gotten so far as to read the "About the Author" sections, but they are hysterical. I thought that I would share them with you -- because really, who do you know that has a funny "about the author" section in their book?
Autobiography of a Fat Bride (True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood):
Laurie Notaro has never written for Rolling Stone, Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, Lowrider, American Logger, Farm Show or McSweeny's. She lives, and will probably die, in Phoenix, Arizona. Miraculously, this is her second book.
I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies):
Laurie Notaro is currently unemployed and childless and enjoys spending her days searching for Bigfoot documentaries on the Discovery Channel, delights in a good peach cobbler, and has sadly discovered that compulsively lying on her headgear chart in the seventh grade has come around to bite her in the ass. Despite several escape attempts, she still lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she is technologically unable to set up the voicemail on her cell phone, which she has never charged, anyway.
We Thought You Would Be Prettier:
Under the cover of night, Laurie Notaro ran away from her former home in Phoenix and is now holed up in Eugene, Oregon, a town so nice it took her a remarkable three whole months to build up enough anger to flip someone off in traffic. She loves ghost stories and seeing models cry, and is under the impression that she looks cute in hats (sadly, this is not true). Against all odds, this is her fourth book.
Hopefully the novels are as clever her 'about me' sections.
"Laugh as much as you breathe."
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