It Looked Different on the Model, Laurie Notaro
It Looked Different on the Model, Laurie Notaro
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It Looked Different on the Model
Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy

Author: Laurie Notaro

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/26/2011


Synopsis

Everyone's favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it's in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mannequin but leaves her in a literal bind or in her neighborhood after she's shamefully exposed at a holiday party by delivering a low-quality rendition of "Jingle Bells." Notaro makes misstep after riotous misstep as she tries (and catastrophically fails) to gain some ground—delightfully whipping up butter-laden cupcakes for the local vegan kids, finding herself banned from the post office for wanting too many two-cent stamps ("The post-office lady looked at me like I had just asked her if she wanted to buy my sex tape"), and discovering what appears to be a corpse on her front lawn seconds before her sister is due to visit ("I had approximately three to four minutes to move the carcass from my yard into my neighbors' yard so my sister would think it was their dead person"). She shares tales of marriage and family, including stories about the dog-bark translator that deciphers Notaro's and her husband's own "woofs" a little too accurately, the emails from her mother with "FWD" in the subject line ("which in email code means Forecasting World Destruction"), and the dead-of-night shopping sprees and Devil Dog–devouring monkeyshines of a creature known as "Ambien Laurie."

At every turn, Notaro's pluck and irresistible candor sets the New York Times bestselling author on a journey that's laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable.

About Laurie Notaro

Laurie Notaro was a reporter and a daily columnist at the metro daily the Arizona Republic before publishing twelve books of fiction and nonfiction with Random House and Simon & Schuster, several of which have been New York Times bestsellers. Her work covers the genres of humor, women's fiction, historical fiction, and literary fiction. She was a finalist for the Thurber Prize, and has been awarded the Hearst Award, the Golden Circle Award, and several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate

3.5 stars I love Laurie Notaro's unique sense of humor and her non-fiction books are so much better than her fictional ones because of the goofy stuff that happens to her on a daily basis. This book is a funny fast read that helped get me through a trip to the DMV to change my address on my license (......more

I read a trio of Laurie Notaro's books a decade ago, and then declared I was done with her, because her humor could not make up for the relentless pummeling of her self-loathing. But a few weeks ago I thought of her for some reason, and it occurred to me that after a decade, maybe I could read her a......more