Notes from the Underwire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Notes from the Underwire write by Quinn Cummings. This book was released on 2009-07-07. Notes from the Underwire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meet Quinn Cummings. Former child star, mother, and modern woman, she just wants to be a good person. Quinn grew up in Los Angeles, a city whose patron saint would be a sixteen-year-old with a gold card and two trips to rehab under her belt. Quinn does crossword puzzles, eats lentils without being forced, and longs to wear a scarf without looking like a Camp Fire Girl. And she tries very hard to be the Adult--the one everybody calls for a ride to the airport--but somehow she always comes up short. In Notes from the Underwire, Quinn's smart and hilarious debut, she tackles the domestic and the delightfully absurd, proving that all too often they're one and the same. From fighting off a catnip-addled cat to mortal conflict with a sewing machine, Quinn provides insight into her often chaotic, seldom-perfect universe -- a universe made even less perfect when the goofy smile of past celebrity shows its occasional fang. The book, like the author herself, is good hearted, keenly observant, and blisteringly funny. In other words, really good company.
The Year of Learning Dangerously
The Year of Learning Dangerously - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Year of Learning Dangerously write by Quinn Cummings. This book was released on 2012-08-07. The Year of Learning Dangerously available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A year of homeschooling. What could possibly go wrong? In this honest and wry memoir, popular blogger, author, and former child actor Quinn Cummings recounts her family’s decision to wade into the unfamiliar waters of homeschooling – the fastest-growing educational trend of our time -- despite a chronic lack of discipline, some major gaps in academic knowledge, and a serious case of math aversion. (And that’s just Quinn.) Quinn’s fearless quest includes some self-homeschooling – reading up on education reform, debating the need for “socialization,” and infiltrating conferences filled with Radical Unschoolers as well as Christian fundamentalists (and even chaperoning a homeschool prom). Part personal narrative, part social commentary, and part how-not-to guide, The Year of Learning Dangerously will make you laugh and make you think. And there may or may not be a quiz at the end. OK, there’s no quiz. Probably.
Modest Blessings for Modern Times
Modest Blessings for Modern Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modest Blessings for Modern Times write by Quinn Cummings. This book was released on 2021-12. Modest Blessings for Modern Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A funny book about everyday small blessings, perfectly plausible strokes of luck, and not inheriting a loved one's parrot when they die. Who wouldn't enjoy being promised their daughter's idiot boyfriend will be out of her life before the holiday picture is taken?Life is challenging. We could all use a big win but that doesn't happen too often. It's modest blessings that keep us going. Quinn Cummings knows that sometimes you just need a run of green lights while driving home or to know the answer to Final Jeopardy when someone is actually around to hear you say it. Modest Blessings for Modern Times bestows the most mundane of good fortune and, should you feel like it, you can tear off a blessing and hand it to someone who needs it. That someone can always be you.Modest Blessings for Modern Times is a laugh-out-loud reminder to look around and appreciate the tiny joys life offers, to keep things in perspective, and to buy that bridesmaid's dress knowing you will, in fact, wear it again.
Pet Sounds
Pet Sounds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pet Sounds write by Quinn Cummings. This book was released on 2013-05. Pet Sounds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Quinn Cummings is an Oscar-nominated actor (The Goodbye Girl, Family), and a critically acclaimed author and humorist whose previous books, NOTES FROM THE UNDERWIRE and THE YEAR OF LEARNING DANGEROUSLY, have earned her a new generation of fans worldwide. In her third book, PET SOUNDS, Cummings writes about a lifetime of living with - and occasionally against - domesticated critters. Drawn from her experiences and her popular blog, The QC Report, Quinn introduces us to a housecat who yearns to kill everything smaller than a microwave, a rescue dog with a hopeless (and one-sided) love for skunks; a bloodthirsty rabbit and a lizard resurrected from the dead. Hard core pet-lovers and the barely pet-tolerant will all enjoy these hilariously droll stories about our quadruped companions: the good, the bad, the ugly and the flatulent.
What Would Susie Say?
What Would Susie Say? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Would Susie Say? write by Susie Essman. This book was released on 2009-10-13. What Would Susie Say? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. IN WHAT WOULD SUSIE SAY?, Susie Essman sheds the crasser layers to reveal how she went from an anxiety-ridden, struggling stand-up comic to being one of the funniest women on television, playing Susie Greene on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. Emerging as one of the most successful performers in her field, Essman goes behind the scenes of a life in comedy with her funny cohorts, including Joy Behar, Rodney Dangerfield, and, of course, Jeff Garlin and Larry David, while also providing sidesplittingly funny wisdom on a range of topics that she's highly unqualified to expound upon, including men, sports, hypochondria, and stepparenthood. WHAT WOULD SUSIE SAY ABOUT... MARRIAGE? "It took me a long time to find the man I was willing to commit myself to. Even the word commit is troublesome. One is committed to a mental institution." MEN WITH DOGS? "As a dog lover, I've researched many different breeds and I've begun to realize that you can tell a lot about a person by what breed of dog they choose to associate with. A bit self-conscious about your cellulite? A guy with a shar-pei is for you. They're hard to find, but cheaper than lipo." THE BEAUTY OF MENOPAUSE? "I guess I just have to accept the fact that I'm going to end up a bald, fat, sweaty, irritable woman with a dry vagina and a full beard who never sleeps and has memory loss so I won't even be able to remember how hot I used to look!" STEPPARENTHOOD? "My mother used to tell me 'you can't buy your kids' love.' Bullshit. You can, and it's exponential. They're like Russian mail-order brides -- the more you spend, the more they love you." WHAT WOULD SUSIE SAY? is Essman's irreverent, refreshingly candid, and hilarious retort to the dubious facts of life that we all face.
