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Carregando... Christmas sucks : what to do when fruitcake, family, and finding the perfect gift makes you miserable (original: 2008; edição: 2008)de Joanne Kimes
Informações da ObraChristmas Sucks: What to Do When Fruitcake, Family, and Finding the Perfect Gift Make You Miserable de Joanne Kimes (2008)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Reads like a stand-up comedy routine or a series of blog rants. Written as though meant to be read aloud, or as though she 'wrote' it by dictation and transcription. The tenor of the humor grows tiresome quickly and many of the jokes are throwaway references to current popular culture that are unlikely to hold up well. Then there are the many intentional puns. The best parts are text-box quotations by named but otherwise unidentified persons about their own holiday unpleasantries. Some self-help-y suggestions, but nothing of which nobody is not already aware, and many URLs that, like the humor, are probably going to age poorly. By far, however, the greatest sin of this book is the truly appalling editing. She acknowledged her "talented editor, Meredith O'Hayre," but MS Word's spell- and grammar-checkers are as deserving as Ms. O'Hayre: which is to say, not very much, actually: "your your", " x and y just doesn't mix", "after the German's adopted". Apostrophe usage seems random. Exclamation points are very common indeed. I wish I were better able to stop reading bad books. First, let me say that Christmas is my favorite, absolutely favorite, time of the year. I starting preparing for Christmas in June and July so that I can setup my Christmas display and have it ready by Thanksgiving. It doesn't come down until February at the earliest. That said, why would I read book with this title? I thought it might be interesting to see how the other half look at this wonderful occasion and so I started, prepared to not like it at all. Okay, so here is the scoop, I really enjoyed this book. I laughed so hard at parts that tears streamed down my face, and my husband ( the original Scrooge), has a look on his face, like - okay she's really lost it now. The writer has this wonderful style for sarcasm and her descriptions are just to die for! She addresses all the issues surrounding the holiday preparations - shopping, Santa Claus, parties, gift giving, decorating, traveling, family gatherings - and even gives you tips on how to avoid the stress in all these areas. Here are just a few of the humorous words from Joanne Kimes on a few subjects surrounding the holidays. Shopping " Black Friday is a modern day version of a Roman Gladiator match" Parking at the mall - "vultures circling over a dying zebra" purchasing a gift the 3rd week in December - "If you are hoping to get something monogrammed, get out your Sharpie." Gift Giving - "Create a nice gift. This year I am giving out infused Vodka. It's easy to make, looks great in a pretty bottle, and who couldn't use a stiff shot this time of year?" Hosting a Party - "Ask a close friend to come early to have an extra set of hands around because your husband is still busy SITTING ON HIS ASS." I could go on and on, but then I would just be re-writing the book here. If you need a good laugh to make you believe that it is all worthwhile, this is the book to get. Subtitled ‘What to Do When Fruitcake, Family and Finding the Perfect Gift Make You Miserable’, Christmas Sucks is not what I expected. And though I’m not quite sure what I did expect, the result is better mostly because there’s a lot more wit couched in between the practical information than I’d anticipated. I was a bit shocked by some of the language used at first but then thought ‘alright! This is going to be entertaining!’ Shocking though they may be (well, just mildly so) the author’s statements do carry the weight of truth behind them. Featuring a blend of tips and tricks on how to behave at various Christmas parties one might be invited to (including behavior that one might engage in which would result in no invitations for the following year), what gifts to buy and not to buy, decorating, traveling and how to do the aforementioned without incurring debt rivaling a small nation’s. Also included is a section on waste management, i.e., how to minimize the impact of the holiday on the environment. The book is packed full of resources and ideas for places to get assorted items for the holidays but also practical alternatives that replace 'must-haves' in a pinch. All done with touches of humorous, snappy cynicism to keep the book from becoming as dry as it would otherwise be. The author also throws in a few websites at the end of the book as useful resources for gifts, cooking and the like, but omits to repeat the websites she referenced in the body of the text which would have been helpful. This is a fun, light-hearted look at how to make Christmas more enjoyable. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
These days, Christmas lights adorn front porches before the Thanksgiving turkey is even in the oven. Plane tickets to visit hardly-missed relatives cost more than the suitcase full of presents people have to lug across the country. And radios everywhere play songs about that fat guy in a red suit on an endless loop. Yes, it's official: Christmas Sucks. This title is a humorous look at America's commercialization of the Christmas holiday season and the terrible travel, inordinate amount of preparation, and family strife that accompanies it. You can commiserate with the fact that everyone drives themselves into debt buying gifts, no one enjoys seeing long-lost relatives, and everyone is creeped out by the department store Santa. With twelve days of Christmas, there's plenty of reasons why this is far from the most wonderful time of the year. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Quick humorous read with tips and tricks for surviving the holiday season: shopping, choosing the perfect gift, meals, office parties, in-laws, houseguests, weight gain, etc. This is not an anti-Christmas book. Just the opposite. It is more like having a conversation with a friend about the frustrations of the season and how we've forgotten the true meaning behind it all.
A little snippet in regard to watching reruns of 'Little House on the Prairie' in December: Back in those hard days...gifts actually meant something. There were no reindeer Chia pets to buy for every Tom, Dick, or Jebediah that crossed your path. Instead, Half-Pint sold her hair to buy Ma some fabric. Pa tended a neighbor's fields to get Manly some tobacco. Sure, they had stupid names, but they had generous hearts, and that's what Christmas was really about. ( )