Journal Entry 1 by alsgal from Lewes, Delaware USA on Sunday, June 15, 2008

From Publishers Weekly
Humorist Notaro (The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, etc.) transitions to fiction with a comic mix of wife lit and smalltown suspense. When Maye Roberts's husband, Charlie, gets a tenure-track job at prestigious Spaulding University, childless, 30-something Maye leaves her tight-knit group of friends and job as a Phoenix reporter to move to the school's eponymous Washington State burg. While Charlie fits in easily, Maye, after a faculty dinner run-in with Dean Spaulding's wife, Rowena, feels lonely and bored. When she learns about the Sewer Pipe Queen pageant, a local tradition that guarantees the winner a town full of friends, she enters with her singing dog, inflaming Rowena further. As tensions thicken, Maye's rather notorious pageant sponsor, Ruby, may hold the key to Rowena's continuing rage and to the decades-old incident that sparked it. Though some of the plot falls flat, Notaro makes Maye's perspective strong enough to hold the story together, and the book is filled with the same winningly acerbic riffs that drive Notaro's popular essays. 

Journal Entry 2 by alsgal from Lewes, Delaware USA on Sunday, June 15, 2008

Reserved for the August Reading Diva 

Journal Entry 3 by ramson from New Orleans, Louisiana USA on Friday, August 01, 2008

OH. MY. GOD!!!!! Alsgal, this is insane! Eight books for the Reading Divas exchange, each better than the next. I am overwhelmed with gratitude. You are a bookcrossing angel for sure! Thank you so much! This particular book will be VERY high up on the TBR as I absolutely adore Laurie Notaro.