When I had my first child 30 years ago my mother gave me some Erma Bombeck books to read. I could hardly breathe for laughing so hard. I loved them. But I don't think I've read Erma Bombeck since then, until now.I guess I must be a very different person now than I was then. I didn't find this fun...
I first heard of Erma Bombeck when I was 13. My mom had gone to the doctor and came home with the news she was pregnant. I was the baby up until then so you can imagine her shock. My dad, being funny, brought home a pillow that said, " It's A Crying Shame," and a book by Erma Bombeck. That book w...
Bombeck’s classic commentary The Grass is always Greener is no less entertaining today than it was when it was first published in the 1970s. Her wit is timeless.She takes a stab a middle class America, its values, habits and foibles. She looks at the innate desire to move out, move up, and move s...
I chanced upon this book on my visit to a local library. I have been a huge fan of Erma Bombeck's primarily because of her quotes but have never had the opportunity to read any of her books. Being fond of travel and hoping to travel the entire world one day, this particular book interested me imm...
Humorist writer Bombeck makes satiric references to her life using books that were popular in the 1970s. For instance, instead of “Fear of Flying” she writes about “Fear of Buying” and Bombeck writes about how the TV commercials would show people how their lives would be all-so-more-perfect if th...
My god. For some reason, I have fond memories of this book from when I was in middle school, so I continued to slog through it now, more in a desperate attempt to understand my past self than out of any hope to find something of quality in this trashy collection.This is a collection of rambling ...
When my son entered the first grade, his teacher asked to see me. She began our meeting by telling me, “He verbalizes during class, periodically engages in excursions up and down the aisle, has no viable goals and seemingly no definitive conception of his role expectations. Peer pressure seems ad...