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    Why Moms Are Weird
    Why Moms Are Weird
    Why Moms Are Weird
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    Why Moms Are Weird

    By Pamela Ribon

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    From the acclaimed author of Why Girls are Weird comes a second hilarious and surprising novel about love and family and the weirdo inside us all.

    Belinda "Benny" Bernstein doesn't brag about her life in Los Angeles, but she is proud of her independence. She's got a job and a place to live, and she even goes out on dates now and again. But when Benny's mother and sister get into a car accident, she drops everything to fly across the country and help her injured, unemployed mom. The only problem? She wasn't exactly invited -- and back in Virginia she finds herself confronting every issue her family has avoided for years, including her mom's thriving sex life and her sister's wild nightlife.

    Benny sets about fixing everything she thinks is broken at home, including mounds of clutter and the personal lives of the women she loves. But she soon stumbles upon a stack of letters that may reveal her mother's darkest secret. Benny only begins to understand her mom when she finds herself in a similar dilemma -- torn between someone she can't have and someone she thinks she shouldn't have. If Benny doesn't sort things out before she's sucked into the family vortex of dysfunction, there's no telling when she'll be able to go home again . . . unless this is home, after all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Books
    Release dateAug 1, 2006
    ISBN9781416510390
    Why Moms Are Weird
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    Pamela Ribon

    Pamela Ribon is a bestselling author, television writer and performer.  A pioneer in the blogging world, her first novel, Why Girls Are Weird, was loosely based on her extremely successful website pamie.com.  The site has been nominated for a Bloggie in Lifetime Achievement, which makes her feel old. Ribon created the cult sensation and tabloid tidbit Call Us Crazy:  The Anne Heche Monologues, a satire of fame, fandom and Fresno.  Her two-woman show, Letters Never Sent (created with four-time Emmy winner and Jay Leno Show favorite Liz Feldman) was showcased at the 2005 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen.  She has been writing in television for the past seven years, in both cable and network, including on the Emmy-award winning Samantha Who? starring Christina Applegate.  Using her loyal Internet fan base, Ribon sponsors book drives for libraries in need.  Over the years, pamie.com has sent thousands of books and materials to Oakland and San Diego, sponsored a Tsunami-ravaged village of schoolchildren, and helped restock the shelves of a post-Katrina Harrison County, Mississippi.  Ribon’s book drive can now be found at DeweyDonationSystem.org, which has sponsored libraries from the Negril School in Jamaica to the Children’s Institute in Los Angeles. 

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    • 4/5
      Just finished it and ran (well not really, I am on crutches) downstairs to get Why Moms are Weird thinking it was a sequel, but it is not.

      It took me a while to get into the book. Not that it was hard to read but for me it was not laughing out loud although I did recognise some of the barbie stuff. ;), but when she wrote about the IM session, that got me started.

      This is just a fun read, especially nice to read during summers while lying on the beach. :)
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the author's writing on Television Without Pity. While I found parts of this book very funny (likely the parts that were right from the original journal) I was a bit disappointed.
    • 4/5
      So far, I'm very in love with this book, and I've only gone as far as the second chapter. Of course, I fall in love with most books at first, and its the really not always love at the end.Funny, insightful, good character development. Keep ya posted.Yeah, the ending was predictable, but still, the book was fantastic. There were blurbs and essays that really reminded me of my first internet friend, Jenny. The boob essay especially, reverbated with both her voice and mine. Its with narcisstic love that I recommend this book. I saw myself in so much of this book, and not in an unflattering way, so of course its the best thing ever. I love it when you get a book, and its something of a little echo from you or your own life. Being able to identify with the main character in such a funny, cynically pleasing way is awesome.
    • 5/5
      I found this book while meandering through the aisles of Barnes and Noble. The color and the title grabbed me (who says you can't judge a book by its cover?). I started reading the Barbie entry at the beginning and it grabbed me from the start and made me buy it, but I still have to say that the How to Fake a Football Orgasm, and the I Give You a Rack for the Day are my favorite of her entries. Sometimes I pull the book out just to reread those just for kicks. I've also lent it to each of my friends, and they all enjoyed it the same.
    • 4/5
      This book was great. It grabbed me right from the beginning with a not quite PG-rated missive about Barbie dolls. The characters were believable and easy to relate to. The situations were 100% realistic (which I find rather rare in books that talk about the Internet). And if you've ever been 25 and lost and lonely, something in this book will speak to you.
    • 3/5
      A reread: found this while I was unpacking. So this woman starts writing a blog, but claims to still be dating her ex-boyfriend. And she meets some of her blog-readers, and everything is awkward and weird. It's pretty amusing, but I'm kind of over the "omg, New Yorkers are all so quirky!" thing.
    • 5/5
      Highly recommended for anyone whose ever written (or read) a blog, been dumped and just couldn't move on, or met someone through the internet.
    • 5/5
      i felt like this character could be one of my friends. it's definitely a book that sums up my experience of my late 20s. i really identified with so much in this book.

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