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About the Author

Cathy Crimmins is the author of several humor books, among them Newt Gingrich's Bedtime Stories for Orphans. She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughter. (Bowker Author Biography)

Obras de Cathy Crimmins

Curse of the Mommy (1993) 7 cópias

Associated Works

The Best Contemporary Women's Humor (1994) — Contribuinte — 25 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Crimmins, Cathy
Data de nascimento
1955-08-22
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA

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Funny tongue in cheek look at heterosexuality. From telling you how to speak with straights, to straight security to taking a road trip. Can be a bit dated.
 
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ChrisWeir | Oct 9, 2022 |
The cover of the book caught my attention. Who has the guts to give a title of a book like that?

I burned through the book in one evening. If one looks hard enough at history ... looking hard for homosexual influence, you will find homosexual influence. In the middle of the book, she made a great leap in pronouncing homosexual influence when a confirmed heterosexual does a homosexual activity. Homosexual activity seemed to be defined (over) broadly as anything artistic ....

Quaint book but nothing really special.… (mais)
 
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wellington299 | Feb 19, 2022 |
A gut-wrenching story of one family's experience with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Mango princess is written by the patient, Alan's, wife, and she's obviously a gifted writer who's also blessed with a sense of humor, as there are jokes and dark humor sprinkled throughout... Wait did I say sprinkled? I meant dumped. This book will make you laugh and cry... but mostly laugh, because she-Cathy-uses humor to cope with the worst of TBI, even as she looks it straight in the face and then turns around to tell you, the reader, what it's all about. She educated me on brain injury in just under a day (the time it took me to finish the book), and, on top of that, I laughed the whole way.

A very highly recommended read!!
… (mais)
 
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KendraRenee | outras 2 resenhas | Dec 16, 2009 |
Very well-written account of the author's first year as caregiver to her brain-damaged husband. However, perhaps it's my background working in the civil court system, but I had a hard time accepting Crimmins' implication that there wasn't money for medical treatment aside from what their HMO would authorize. Granted she wasn't present at the accident, but beyond stating that "a woman driving a boat hit him", there's no further mention of the circumstances thereafter by her ... with one exception: she finds the claims adjuster for the woman's insurance company in Alan's hospital room shortly after the accident, and throws him out immediately. That said to me that there was a settlement, if not litigation (she does mention threatening to sue the HMO at one point), involved which she cannot discuss; presumably, there's treatment money forthcoming which she downplays here. The way she handles that aspect I found clumsily disingenuous; she's explicit - to the point of TMI for me at times - with the rest of the details.… (mais)
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Seajack | outras 2 resenhas | Oct 24, 2009 |

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Obras
22
Also by
1
Membros
592
Popularidade
#42,409
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
6
ISBNs
37
Idiomas
4
Favorito
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