If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
I picked up this book to read on a pleasant day, sitting outside. I should have been doing about 50 different things, but I like Julia Sweeney and I just wanted to read and enjoy the day. Instead, I ended up annoyed - annoyed that these random thoughts, with no craftmanship or editing, were packaged into a book and sold. Annoyed that, by my reading, I was telling Julia Sweeney that it was ok to slap together a book of random thoughts, that people will buy it. Annoyed that Julia Sweeney doesn't have to use any of that skill that I know she has. She can just do stream-of-consciousness and people will apparently buy it, and support her living in her faux small-town and doing...not much.This was supposed to be an escape book for me, but bad writing makes me angry. I received this book through the First Reads program.I was really looking forward to reading this book. It is an easy and enjoyable read. Julia Sweeney is remarkably candid about her life. I have not read her other books. This may be why I felt there was a bit of disjointedness in the writing. There wasn't a real flow between the chapters in some cases. The writing is mildly humorous and the book makes for a quick read.
What do You think about If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother (2013)?
Pussy from the Sopranos makes an unexpected cameo. That and Julia Sweeney! Hell yes!
—loulousaghira
Warm, witty and genuine, I could hardly put it down.
—zewy
