Rude Bitches Make Me Tired: Slightly Profane And Entirely Logical Answers To Modern Etiquette Dilemmas (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
I believe this is the first time I've been completely turned off by a book in its foreword. The author very clearly told me that I was not her intended audience on page xii. (The fact that the contents page -- at least in this version -- gets the page number for that foreword wrong notwithstanding.)"What does this etiquette book have that others don't?In a word, you. You the exhausted, overworked, undervalued mommy."Clearly, I didn't realize that only mommies, exhausted, overworked and otherwise, were the only ones dealing with modern etiquette problems, or people who might want to approach them with humor. Silly me.I soldiered on anyway, being an intrepid non-mom, and got three pages in to Chapter 1 before I closed the book and put it in the stack to go back to the library. I guess I should have listened when she told me the book wasn't for me. Lesson learned. This book tackles etiquette from a real world point of view. Separated into topics such as visiting, office manners, and check splitting, Rivenbark went out and asked people what etiquette issues bothered them the most and found that she wasn't alone in some of her pet peeves.She addresses real world situations with humour and insight and provides real solutions with a dose of common sense. I've been in a lot of the situations she refers to and find them just as annoying as she does. The slide into self centered behaviour is something many of us bemoan, but few address.This book may provide you with some useful strategies, and entertain you as well.A good read.
What do You think about Rude Bitches Make Me Tired: Slightly Profane And Entirely Logical Answers To Modern Etiquette Dilemmas (2013)?
FUNNY!!! I could hang out with Celia, and I am sure I would have a BLAST!!!
—fey
Really funny take on the classic etiquette book.
—EveZz
Disappointed. Expected it to be way funnier
—verysalty
