Read Online Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault Essays from the Grownup Years eBook Cathy Guisewite

Product details File Size 18130 KB Print Length 336 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN 0735218420 Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons (April 2, 2019) Publication Date April 2, 2019 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B078GDS2TL

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault Essays from the Grownup Years eBook Cathy Guisewite Reviews

• I so looked forward to this book. I have been a "Cathy" fan since the early days of the comic strip. This book did not disappoint. In fact, I am going to be buying copies for every girlfriend in my age group. I didn't want it to end. The essays on parents were so true to my life...I couldn't get through some paragraphs for laughing so hard. It is a sweet, hilarious and timely book for so many of us dealing with aging parents. I cannot recommend this highly enough! Thank you Cathy for writing this. I'm so thankful to "hear" your voice on this phase of life.
• It seems we have waited sooo looong for Cathy to reappear! And here she is! Not in the form we are used to, these are essays, not comics, but who cares? These stories are so well told, using all the humor and heart she always has had, a complete delight! I could not keep from smiling, sometimes tearing up, and flat out laughing at Cathy’s takes on grown up problems. We in the Paninni generation can totally relate to every essay! She still gets us, she is still one of us!
  
  Well done, Cathy G and please keep writing! I recommend this book to Cathy fans, to mothers, to daughters, to we in the middle and to anyone who wants a fun read. It is like our BFF has come back into our lives after some time away! Yay! I welcome you, we missed ya!
• This book made me wistful and it made me laugh out loud - not at the same time (usually).
  
  Cathy Guisewhite beautifully articulates the joys and sorrows of the sandwich generation, and offers us smiles and solace - and quite a few good laughs.
  
  Well done, Ms. Guisewhite. This is now one of my favorite books.
• This book is laugh-out-loud funny! The author is spot on about life as a woman. My husband gave it to me as a birthday present and I cannot stop reading it, even though I should be cleaning house instead. Can’t help thinking that Cathy Guisewite would be happy to hear she kept me from doing housework. Highly recommend!
• I'm not sure which I did more of while reading this wonderful book chuckle out loud or wipe away tears. It helps, I suppose, that I was a huge fan of the author's long-running "Cathy" comic strip. Perhaps more important, while I'm older than she is by nine years, I, too, was a champion of the feminist movement (still am, as is she) and was for a time sandwiched in between parents and a daughter, all of whom were growing old, and up, way too fast. Sadly, my parents are gone now - and my daughter has become the "stuff" inside the Oreo of life, caught between a grown daughter of her own and her aging parents (which, Lord help us, means me and my husband).
  
  In any event, oh, how I can relate - and I'm quite sure all but teenybopper females will do so as well. These essays were written, Guisewite says, at a time when she's trying to "declutter" her own life (hmmm, I'm pretty sure that's a word that passed through our daughter's lips last time she popped in for a visit). Feminist though she may be, Guisewite admits to feeling torn between Betty Crocker and Betty Friedan (conjuring up decades-ago memories of whipping up a casserole for my family to eat while I attended a Gloria Steinem lecture). I choked with laughter - and frustration - as she recounted getting "stuck" in a sports bra; as a gym newbie, I can tell you it's not fun (though worse, perhaps, is the embarrassment over having to call someone to your rescue). And before I caved and joined the gym, I, too, resisted the call to exercise, rationalizing that "I exercised yesterday and I don't look any different."
  
  There are far too many other shared feelings and experiences to mention here (especially since I don't want to spoil the fun for other readers). In the end, she sums up the dilemma we're in perfectly "My whole generation is reeling from the stunning truth - that we, who are way too young and hip to ever look or act old, are not too young to pass away." Aha - maybe that's why I glance proudly at the year-old Aristocat tattoo on the top of my flip-flop clad foot as I open the morning newspaper first to the obituaries pages. Torn indeed!
  
  In short, I love, love, love this book - highly recommended. Many thanks to the publisher, via NetGalley, for the opportunity to read and review an advance copy.
• I LOVE HER CARTOONS AND I LOVE THIS BOOK. SHE IS SUCH A WIT AND KNOWS HOW TO DESCRIBE MY LIFE.
• I've never written a review before now, but I feel so cheated by this book, I have to warn you off of it. I've spent the last two and a half years caring for my mother-in-law (kidney failure) and father-in-law (dementia). I bought Cathy's book, which is subtitled "Essays from the Grown-Up Years," expecting sometimes funny, sometimes absurd, sometimes heartbreaking essays I could relate to. I did not expect to find chapters on bathing suits and jeans. I don't want to say much more because I don't want to criticize Cathy personally, but be advised, this book is more fluffy than you might imagine it to be.