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Sometimes you just need to revisit funny favorites for the comfort. Perhaps you live in Tennessee and need a distraction from the shit show?? No matter what, Helen Ellis is a good call. I #reread all three of these little gems recently. Can‘t wait for her new collection, pubbing in June!

This memoir in the form of a collection of essays is sometimes funny, and sometimes sad . . . like most of our lives. Read my mini review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#bring-your-baggage-and-dont-pack-lig...

Short essay collection that has some dark humor in it. I've been a fan of Ellis since I read her novel Eating the Cheshire Cat. Her essays always entertain me and make me laugh, although this isn't her strongest collection.

It was still a great audiobook to pass the time for a few hours.

This one suffered a little by comparison with Jenny Lawson, who I listened to just prior. Overall I enjoyed this short collection. My favorite was The Backup Plan, in which she explains the importance of being someone‘s second choice — in this case being the backup delivery room partner for her friend. I also liked the first one about her group of lifelong friends, and the one about why you should call to say something mean rather than text. #NYWD

An entertaining way to spend a few hours. Middle-aged women dark humor. It was fine, but not as lol-inducing as I had hoped.

If you like Helen Ellis, she has a new one out and it is quite funny. A nice quick read for a weekend

I can always depend on Helen Ellis for a quick, short, laughter filled book! She seriously makes me laugh out loud.

Sitting outside working under an umbrella...listening to the first Fall rain!!

Book 166

Bed time Story time.

Laugh out loud funny. Loved it!

Enjoyed these essays, more poignant than Southern Lady Code which is my favorite by Helen Ellis. Love all her books though.

Helen Ellis doesn‘t miss 🙌

Twelve humorous essays on friendship, love, and life. Funny and profound, honest, and heartbreaking. Lots of great characters musing on marriage, plastic surgery, fifty year old motherhood, and cancer.

Enjoyed this collection of essays way more than Southern Lady Code.

Ellis has a quick wit and is a sharp observer.

Listening to her narrate the audiobook was a plus.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The thoughtful way Ellis writes about her lifelong friends is precisely the way I feel about mine. The love runs hella deep. My girls and I even have “Redneck Riviera” stories. 🤐 This collection is exactly what I hoped for - and needed. Hilarious, scary, honest, and 100% relatable. Phenomenal storytelling and audio narration. Ellis‘s southern lilt adds another dimension. I just wanted it to be twice long! Definitely one to revisit.

Yikes. How have I been awol from here for more than a month? I do apologise. Anyway, I am back and I come with a really very good essay collection to recommend. This made me cackle with laughter and read bits out loud to Him Indoors!

TFW your book orders turn up the same day as you are tempted by lots of other new shiny books, and you realize that you should just ask to be paid in gift cards! 🤦‍♀️ #booksellerproblems
Lots of #blameitonlitsy purchases here….. 💕📚

How perfect that I started this book while “home” in Kentucky visiting. Ellis and her friends already remind me of my best life-long girlfriends, who I‘m meeting for dinner tonight. And I‘m going to hang kid-free with my BFF (who I grew up next door to and have known since we were 5) at her pool this afternoon. 💖 I haven‘t seen these ladies since before COVID and I‘m over the moon! 🌙

I think I just have to accept the fact that Ellis is never going to make me actually laugh out loud. And that‘s okay; she amuses me and that‘s fine. I especially enjoyed the first essay about her reunion with friends on the Gulf (near where I live) and the last one about how she feels about her neck (completely relatable as I have the same feelings about mine.) This book is too short though.

This afternoon‘s reading. I wanted light reading, but I‘ve already encountered a bad mammogram in the second sentence. I hope it still turns out to be lightish.

Cant wait to watch this later!

I zoomed through this #audiobook stat! It is such a wonderful combination of humor and heart. I loved her relationship with her childhood best friends from Alabama. Everyone needs girlfriends like that! She also wrote humorously about menopause and plastic surgery in her 40s and how helpful it is to have friends that are 10 years older. (Certainly has been for me!) And I‘m the Backup Friend among my group, too. Great collection!

It‘s #NewReleaseTuesday from my library, and I‘ve just had some coffee! Starting with the tagged book! Squee!!

Another collection of essays from Helen Ellis, focusing mainly on aging this time around. Not my favorite but still enjoyable, it aspired to be a Nora Ephron but didn't quite get there for me. 3.5 stars

Helen Ellis is “my kind of people.” Hilariously funny, sharp, honest, able to recognize the humor in everything, she‘s your number one backup plan, and makes you feel good about your lumps and bumps.
This collection of essays was fantastic! Each one was 100% relatable. I enjoyed every essay and laughed out loud numerous times. I admit, I shed a few tears during her essay about her friend group titled “Grown-Ass Ladies Gone Mild.”
#ARC #NetGalley