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Mimi Smartypants

Autor(a) de The World According to Mimi Smartypants

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1971-12-29
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Chicago, Illinois, USA

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This blog turned book comes from around the same time as Julie and Julia but it neither tries to organize itself according to some overarching principle nor takes such a horrifying turn, memoir-fashion, but meanders in its own obsessive way. It's an odd memento from a time not that different from the present, with the political and economic scenes making scarcely a ripple in the hyperfocus of her attention on the mundane. She did not set out to make great art but it's comforting in its own way if you are already a reader of the blog. Otherwise, it seems unlikely that anyone would go search this book out.… (mais)
 
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rmagahiz | outras 5 resenhas | Dec 21, 2013 |
I've been reading Mimi for years (since around when this book deal went through, actually) and the book does a reasonable job of capturing her wacky non-linear style. It's edited pretty heavily - each "day" is a neat little anecdote rather than her usual "here are twelve things I thought about recently" and the daily diary format is palpably fake, but I laughed pretty hard at quite a few things.

It's not bad, and it's a quick read. But, you know, it's Mimi Smartypants - her diary is still around, still updated, awesome, and free.… (mais)
 
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JeremyPreacher | outras 5 resenhas | Mar 30, 2013 |
I love her blog. I would never read this book if I saw it on a shelf. The publishers did a real disservice to her, but on the other hand, they contacted her and said, hey can we print your blog? We will give you money. And so naturally she said yes.
 
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traciolsen | outras 5 resenhas | Mar 13, 2011 |
I haven't got the actual book, but have read every single entry on Mimi's blog (whence these excerpts are taken). What can I say? She ranks as one of my favourite people on this planet and I haven't even met her. Two complaints: a) that horrid feet cover and b) this is tagged "chick lit"? Yeah, sure, 'cause we all know chick lit books are usually not about romance at all but full of discussions on gender roles and postmodernism and the existence of a "self", and the "logical flaws in Noam Chomsky's politics as well as in his linguistic ideas". It's a well-known fact that reading most chick lit books results in enriching your vocabulary daily, right? And, of course, I'm sure that chick lit writers habitually spew out sentences like these ones: "Infinite Jest feels very real, with the underlying premise that we MUST read, write, or talk ourselves out of the metafictional spiral; that it is actually urgent that we connect with the world, not hide from it with drink or drugs or television or literary skill; that paying attention to nothing but the movie inside one’s head will ultimately kill you. A novel about the absolute necessity of conveying our subjective consciousness to each other, that in fact IS an attempt to convey subjective consciousness to you, the reader—this feels like such a relief after decades of novels that laughingly deny the possibility." Chick lit, sure.… (mais)
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girlunderglass | outras 5 resenhas | Apr 8, 2010 |

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Obras
1
Membros
102
Popularidade
#187,251
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
6
ISBNs
3
Favorito
1

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