Journal Entry 1 by SimplyCee from Baltimore, Maryland USA on Saturday, March 27, 2010

Laurie Notaro has an uncanny ability to attract insanity–and leave readers doubled over with laughter. In The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death, she experiences the popular phenomenon of laser hair removal (because at least one of her chins should be stubble-free); bemoans the scourge of the Open Mouth Coughers on America’s airplanes; welcomes the newest ex-con (yay, a sex offender!) to her neighborhood; and watches, against her own better judgment, every Discovery Health Channel special on parasites and tapeworms that has ever aired–resulting in an overwhelming fear that a worm the size of a python will soon come a-knocking on her back door. 

Journal Entry 2 by ramson at New Orleans, Louisiana USA on Saturday, June 26, 2010

Thank you Cee! This book arrived last week. I immediately stopped the book I was reading then in order to start this one. Finished in a few hours. Was laughing out loud by page 9, an all new redcord for me with a Notaro book. I am now leaving this with a friend I am visiting in Houston who is also a Notaro fan.